8-day Kenai Mountain & Glaciers Backpacking

Highlights

  • Exhilarating 8-day backpacking mountaineering expedition through the heart of the Kenai Mountains

  • Experience the first class backpacking camp accommodations

  • Experience part of Alaska that few have ever seen

Summary

Our Kenai Mountains & Glaciers Backpacking Adventure is an 8 day, 60+ mile mountaineering-style backpacking experience takes place completely off-trail in the backcountry of the Kenai Mountains.

Tour info

Duration
1 week 1 day
Group Size
8
Pricing (From)
Participant: (14 years +)
$5,964.42
Commentary
Dropoff location

Why take this tour?

You will be challenged, and you will learn a lot about yourself along the way. This is the one of the funnest and most challenging technical backpacking routes in the Kenai Mountains – pioneered exclusively by KBA! Mountaineering techniques are utilized throughout the entire trip.
You will scale mountains, hike knife ridges, cross streams, trek across glaciers, camp near gorgeous lakes, and witness views few have ever seen. Oh and did we mention the wildlife?! This area is full of wildlife, sometimes in the least expected places.
While this adventure has a base rating of strenuous, we do have ways to make it less strenuous by exercising various route changes. This works well with younger adventurers or folks that want the full adventure but aren’t able to push as hard as our hardest route requires.

What’s included?

  • Accommodations: 7 nights tent camping

  • Professional Mountaineering Guides

  • Round-trip bush flights during the trip

  • Expedition-grade tents and large gathering tent

  • Mountaineering equipment: ropes, carabiners, etc.

  • Glacier trekking equipment: helmet, harness, crampons

  • Expedition-grade tents and large gathering tent

  • All meals - Guides prepare and cook all meals

  • Cooking equipment, eating utensils, food bowl, and hot drink mug

  • Water filtration equipment

  • Gratuities for your guide

Things to know

Before you book

  • This tour is rated Strenuous to Extreme

  • Minimum age requirement of 14 years old

  • Under 18 years old must be accompanied by an adult

Before you go

  • Bring snacks, and a water bottle (water will be refilled at camp)

  • Waterproof rain jacket & rain pants required

  • Bring a backpack 70-80 liters, clothes for dressing in layers

  • Please refer to the packing list for details

Covid Policy

  • Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
  • Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
  • Gear/equipment sanitized between use
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons

Cancellation Policy

    Up to 180 days before the beginning of the activity: full refund Less than 180 days before the beginning of the activity or no-show: no refund

About operator:

Kenai Backcountry Adventures' professionally guided wilderness adventure tours will take you into the most breathtaking backcountry areas Alaska has to offer. From national parks to wildlife refuges, mountain peaks to majestic rivers, our groups are small, but our adventures are BIG! Purveying family-friendly day adventures to all-inclusive, multi-day expeditions with flexible itineraries at a comfortable pace. Purveyors of Adventure in Alaska's Backcountry! Guided backpacking, packrafting, hiking, rafting, skiing & splitboarding in Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Clark National Park, Katmai National Park, & throughout Alaska.

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