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| Paintbrush in front of Alsek Lake |
This trip takes a LOT of planning. You need to get two permits, one from the U. S. National Parks Service in Dry Bay for a take-out date, and one from Kluane National Park and Preserve in Canada for a put-in date. Fees must also be paid to Alsek-Tatshenshini Provincial Park in Canada. Then there is arranging for a helicopter to come and portage you and your stuff around Turnback Canyon. (People do portage on foot, over the Tweedsmere Glacier for six miles. One trip takes approximately two days.) Once you reach the end of the Alsek River in Dry Bay, Alaska, you need to get back to where you started which for us was Haines Junction, Canada. We arranged to have a fixed wing plane from Haines, Alaska come pick us up and fly us to Haines (to fly into Canada you must land where there is a customs office, Whitehorse is the closest place). To fix this we asked a friend in Haines, AK if he (and two of his friends) would drive to Haines Junction, Canada, pick up our vehicles and drive them back to Haines, Alaska (about 6 hours round trip). When we arrived in Haines, Alaska at the airport our vehicles were waiting in the parking lot! Confused? I am too so I'm glad that my husband took care of all this planning. Yeah Pat!
The following posts are the notes, reflections, ect. that I kept almost every night before going to sleep.
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