We move slow on purpose. Foot travel, paddles, small groups in country that doesn’t need help being big. The Wrangells and Chugach aren’t a backdrop, they’re the whole reason we exist. Protecting them is just keeping the lights on. AGA’s criteria line up with how we already run trips.

Expeditions Alaska runs backpacking, packrafting, and kayaking trips in the Wrangell-St. Elias, the Arctic, and quieter pockets of Southeast. We travel under our own power. Groups stay small because the country is big and we’d like to keep it feeling that way.

We hire Alaska guides. We work with the air taxi pilots and lodges who live here year-round. The valleys we walked into twenty years ago are the same valleys we walk into now. We’d like that to still be true in another twenty. AGA’s standards match the way the company already operates.