Alaska Photo Gallery
Eighteen years of guiding small groups through Alaska’s wildest places leaves you with a few photographs worth keeping. This gallery pulls together images from our hiking expeditions into Lake Clark, Katmai, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Brooks Range, Denali, and Wrangell-St. Elias. The parks and preserves where we run our backpacking, basecamp, and traverse trips. Some were shot by guests, some by guides, some by founder Dan Oberlatz himself. All come from real trips, not stock libraries.
The collection spans 2007 through 2018, when our monthly photo series ran on the blog. We have consolidated it here so the work is easier to find. Follow the link under each section to that destination’s full trip guide.
Lake Clark National Park
Twin Lakes, Dick Proenneke’s homestead, the Chigmit Mountains, and the glacier-fed valleys west of Cook Inlet. Our Lake Clark trips are floatplane-accessed from Port Alsworth and include hiking around Twin Lakes, the Telaquana Lake corridor, and the Turquoise to Twin Lakes High Route Dan pioneered in 2006.
Katmai National Park
Brown bears in the interior, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, and the volcanic country south of Cook Inlet. Our Katmai bear viewing trips fly into the interior rather than coastal Brooks Falls, so the country is wilder and the bears are seen on their terms.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Brooks Range
The eastern Brooks Range, the Hulahula and Kongakut Rivers, and the coastal plain where the Porcupine caribou herd calves each spring. Our ANWR backpacking trips run from late June through July, when the light barely fades.
Denali National Park
The south-side approach via Talkeetna, the Alaska Range, and the glacier-fed rivers and granite spires that most guided operators (working from the park’s north entrance) don’t see. Our Denali backpacking trips run on the wild side of the range.
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
America’s largest national park. Mountains rising 16,000 feet above the road, the Kennicott and Root Glaciers, and country so remote that most Alaskans haven’t seen it.
Wrangell-St. Elias trip guide →
