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Alaska - one week - no crowds

One week - an idea for travel away from tourists!

Fly into Anchorage and rent a car - drive down to the Kenai Penninsula and stay a couple of nights so that you hike out to a Glacier - take a cruise to view Glaciers up close....Drive to Whittier - through a tunnel!... Once there board a ferry and sail over to Valdez.  

In Valdez spend a day kayaking - or deep sea fishing.. Then drive through Wrangell Mountains, a popular destination for backcountry recreation, superb sport fishing, river rafting and Native cultures. My clients comment: "The kayak was on a glacial lake with huge icebergs-- we paddled into small caves in the icebergs and then walked on the glacier."

Chitistone and Nazina canyons have both been described at exceeding the scale of Yosemite Valley. Chitistone Canyon features a spectacular, 300-foot waterfall and the lower canyon has sheer walls rising 4,000 feet above the river. Wildlife includes brown and black bear, moose, caribou, mountain goats, Dall sheep. The rivers and lakes are teaming with fish. The native Alaskans can use fish wheels in the rivers for catching Copper River salmon.. 

 
Fishing, hiking, backpacking,  rafting, kayaking, flightseeing, glacier viewing and watching the wildlife are why folks come here.  There really are no stoplights, more wildlife than people and more glaciers than cars.

A great way to see and enjoy the best of  Alaskan scenery - interact with locals and get away from crowds of tourists...McCarthy is a town with a population of 90.
Kennecott Copper had a mine here and much of the original 'Ghost Town'  is there for the looking - and shopping in the small shops in Chitna provides an opportunity to purchase 'history'...
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