Alaska Excursions

Alaska Excursions

Wide range of glorious day trips throughout Southcentral Alaska.

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Matt Szundy, a guide for The Ascending Path, leads clients from Minnesota up the north face of Mount Alyeska in Girdwood. The company offers three-hour hikes on the mountain, which in the winter is a ski mountain.

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Matt Szundy, a guide for The Ascending Path, leads clients from Minnesota up the north face of Mount Alyeska in Girdwood. The company offers three-hour hikes on the mountain, which in the winter is a ski mountain.

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Matt Szundy, a guide for The Ascending Path, leads clients from Minnesota up the north face of Mount Alyeska in Girdwood. The company offers three-hour hikes on the mountain, which in the winter is a ski mountain.

Whether you like a gentle amble or a strenuous climb, Alaska offers world-class hiking.

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Kenai Peninsula hiking (10-12-2005)

The fish are plentiful on the Kenai Peninsula, but getting out into the woods is one of the best ways to experience the beauty of this place.

Trails in town

Hikers take in the sunset at about 11:30 p.m. on the 2008 summer solstice atop Flattop Mountain in Chugach State Park. Hiking Flattop is a solstice tradition for many in Anchorage and a way to enjoy some of the more than 19 hours of daylight.

Whether they're mild or wild, the trails of Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska have plenty to keep hikers or bicycle riders busy for an hour, a day or longer.

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The long, hard race -- Iditasport Impossible

By the end, after weeks of wallowing in deep snow and battling headwinds that blew the frozen tundra bare, only four of the 20 athletes who began the 1,000-mile Iditasport Impossible race crossed the finish line in Nome.

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Alaska hiking can be an adventure.

A good trip into the backcountry can fill a hiker's journal with hazards: mosquitoes, bears, devil's club, cold fords in milky rivers, rainy late-summer days.

And hiking here is fun, too. A stroll into the mountains or tundra takes adventurers to places of serenity and end-of-the-known-world beauty. And sometimes there's a lot of sun.

Climbing into the mountains can range from technical feats (up Denali, for example) to the casual (smaller mountains in Denali and Chugach state parks).

So lace up your boots, fill your water bottles and head up the trail.