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Alaska
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We offer Alaska raft trips that offer scenic views, wildlife viewing, fishing, and whitewater.
Custom group Alaska rafting adventures are available on request. If have interested in something special or participating in an exploratory expedition, please contact us with your ideals or to see what plans are being made.
Kongakut River - 10 day Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Rafting Safari. Explore Alaska's remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) by raft on the "river of caribou". Our trip coincides with the annual migration of the 130,000-strong Porcupine caribou herd and passes through some of the world's most pristine wilderness.
Lake Creek - 7 day Whitewater Rafting and Fishing Adventure. Our favorite fly-in wilderness adventure river, great combination exciting whitewater and great Alaska fishing. Lake Creek offers almost continuous class II/III whitewater with a few class IV rapids, five species of salmon, rainbow trout and arctic grayling.
Chulitna River - 4 day Denali Raft Adventure. An excellent family adventure and sampling of Alaska's best wilderness and geography at a casual pace. We travel through Denali State Park, upper Susitna Valley and take out near Trapper Creek, a historic gold mining town. |
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Alaska Transportation
Bus, Railroad, Alaska Bush Plane, Helicopter, Water Taxi, Charter Boat
Transportation Along Alaska Highways and Railroad
 Scheduled transportation for the independent traveler or cruise ship passenger on the Alaska Railroad and by bus. Scheduled transportation option are available between these Alaska cities: Anchorage, Talkeetna, Denali, Fairbanks, Girdwood, Whittier, and Seward.
Alaska Railroad Passenger Service
Alaska Bus Service
Transportation to Remote Alaska Locations
 Most of Alaska is very remote wilderness with no roads or highway and the only means of transportation is by boat or by a small Alaska bush plane. Even then most areas are so remote and rugged that a small bush plane often cannot safely land on a nearby lake or river gravel bar. To access these rugged remote areas the means of transportation is by foot, backpacking, rafting down a river, or by kayak. In winter snowmobile (snow machine), skies, snowshoes and dog sleds are used. Access or transportation planing can be a logistical nightmare for those that are not familiar with Alaska's remote areas.
Backcountry Safaris' owner has a lifetime of experience in solving Alaska's transportation logistics. We invite you to call or email if you need help with transportation to a remote Alaska location or for a guided remote Alaska trip or help with expedition logistics planning.
Transportation For Ocean, Bays, and Rivers
 Alaska Water Taxi Service
Charter Boat Fishing. Call
Charter
Research Vessel. Call
Remote River Transportation. Call
Transportation Inland to Remote Location
Charter bush Plane. Call
Helicopter. Call
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Backcountry Safaris
P.O. Box 1397 Seward, Alaska USA 99664
1-907-222-1632 or toll-free 1-877-812-2159
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Alaska Facts
- Alaska State: Flower Forget-me-not
- Alaska State Bird: Willow Ptarmigan
- Alaska State Tree: Sitka Spruce
- Alaska State Mineral: Gold
- Alaska State Gem: Jade
- Alaska State Mammal: Moose
- Alaska State Fish: King Salmon
- Alaska State Sport: Dog Mushing
- State Nickname: The Last Frontier
- State Motto: North To The Future
- State Song: Alaska's Flag
- Alaska State Holidays: Alaska Day, Oct.18th and Seward's Day March 27
- The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, about 2 cents an acre.
- 15 species of whales are found in Alaska waters.
- Alaska has more than 80 potentially active volcanoes.
- The flag of Alaska contains 8 gold stars representing the Big Dipper and the North Star on a field of blue.
- Longest Day: Barrow the sun rises on May 10th, it don't set for nearly 3 months.
- Shortest Day: Barrow when sun sets on November 18th, Barrow residents do not see the sun again for nearly two months.
- What maybe the oldest documented site of human habitation in North America, the Mesa Site found in 1993 lies 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
- There are more than 3,000 rivers in Alaska and over 3 million lakes.
- The name of Alaska probably comes from Unalaska, an Aleut word derived from agunalaksh which translates the shores where the sea breaks its back.
- The 90,000 Native people of Alaska make up roughly 15% of the state's population.
- Almost half of Alaska (175 million acres) is classified as wetlands.
- Highest Point: Mount Denali (Mount McKinley), 20,320 ft
- 17 of the highest 20 mountains in the U.S. are in Alaska. It has 19 peaks over 14,000 feet.
- Of the total 365 million acres of land that make up Alaska, less than one-twentieth of 1% is settled.
- Alaska has numerous natural hot springs found across the state. Near Port Moller Hot Springs on the Alaska Peninsula, a village site has been occupied intermittently over the past 3000 years.
- The largest gold nugget found in Alaska was discovered near Nome in 1903. It weighed 155 troy ounces and was 2 inches thick, 4 inches wide and 7 inches long.
- It is estimated that there are 100,000 glaciers in Alaska covering 29,000 square miles or 5% of the state.
- The estimated tidal shoreline of Alaska including inlets, islands and shoreline to head of tidewater is 47,300 miles.
- The largest state in the union, Alaska is one-fifth the size of the Lower 48 and spans 2,400 miles east to west and 1,420 miles north to south.
- On average 1,000 earthquakes registering 3.5 or more on the Richter scale occur in Alaska each year.
- Most snowfall in 24 hours: 62 inches, at Thompson Pass near Valdez, Dec. 1955.
- Most monthly snowfall: 297.9 inches, at Thompson Pass near Valdez, Feb. 1953.
- Most snowfall in a season: 974.5 inches (over 81 feet), at Thompson Pass near Valdez, 1952-53.
- Most precipitation in 24 hours: 15.2 inches, in Angoon, Oct. 12, 1982.
- Most monthly precipitation: 70.99 inches at MacLeod Harbor (Montague Island), Nov. 1976.
- Most annual precipitation: 332.29 inches at MacLeod Harbor (Montague Island), 1976.
- Highest recorded temperature: 100¡F, at Ft. Yukon, June 27, 1915.
- Lowest recorded temperature: -80¡F, at Prospect Creek Camp, Jan. 23, 1971.
- Earthquakes: 9.2 on the Richter Scale on March 27th 1964 - the strongest ever recorded in North America
- 430 bird species have been sited in Alaska.
- Over 50 species of wild fruit is found in Alaska including Low and Highbush Cranberries, Blueberries, Salmonberries, wild rose and strawberries.
- Three species of bear are found in Alaska: the black, the brown/grizzly and the polar bear. Brown bears are the largest living omnivorous land mammals in the world.
- The Arctic Circle is the latitude where the sun does not set for one day at summer solstice and does not rise for one day at winter solstic.
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