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Little Girstle Trilogy – Part 2: Spur Peak
The winter of 2025/26 was the all-time coldest on record (so the coldest winter since recording started in 1904). From December to March, Fairbanks’ average temperature was -13.6 Fahrenheit. But after 2 months of cabin fever, a nice weekend finally materialized at the end of January which warranted scheming up a real adventure. I think…
Little Girstle Trilogy – Part 1: Independent Peak
Mount Hajdukovich is a 9600′ peak in Alaska’s Delta Mountains. 9000′ might not seem like much to someone from Colorado, but when the trailhead starts at 1300′, you are looking at 8000′ of elevation gain. For snowmachine mountaineers like Rowland Powers and myself, Mount Hajdukovich is an attractive objective because the lengthy approach can be…
Camping in Canada’s Tombstone Territorial Park, and hiking Mount Frank Rae
Tombstone Territorial Park has been on my “someday” list of places to visit, and it could’ve easily sat on that list for 10 years more before I’d actually have done it. But in 2024, after our plan A on the Dalton Highway was shut down by the grapefruit forest fire road closure, and as plan…
Cashews River and Wiehl Mountain: an Alaskan Brooks Range Traverse
This trip report is one that I hope brings awareness of the Cashews River as a packrafting objective. Prior to testing the waters for ourselves, I had just two pieces of beta to go off of: an Ed Plumb video on youtube, and a photography website with helpful photos. I gathered that it was probably…
Our Days in Chititu
McCarthy longtime locals were calling this the worst mosquito summer they could remember -and I don’t think they were lying. To minimize losses to our precious sanity and blood reserves, we had to wear our long-sleeve wind breakers and gloves. Which wouldn’t be that bad by itself, but under the hot summer sun these layers…
Jumbo Mine
Additionally, the National Park Service has done the work of writing up the hiking details for those looking to reach Jumbo Mine (attached below). One tip I’ll say again, and which goes for any trip to McCarthy is to bring bikes, that way you can operate on your own timeline and not be confined to…
The Elementary Peaks
We wrapped around Polonium Peak and ascended up to the saddle between it and the Elementary Spires. At this saddle, we dropped our packs and traveled unweighted up Polonium’s East ridge. No signs of prior ascent were found, and I left behind a summit registrar. Over the course of the trip, the views would become…
Institute and Minya
Institute and Minya: two more of the awesome Gulkana Glacier Peaks. And while my favorite Gulkana Glacier peak remains to be Icefall Peak; that doesn’t mean either of these two peaks were slouching. It just means that all the Gulkana Peaks are super amazing. And the reason for this is because the Gulkana Glacier peaks…
Bear Peak
My cousins and family had come to A-town (Anchorage) for a week, and so amongst other Southcentral Alaska things such as Flat Top, Gold Chord Lake, and Crow Creek gold panning, we made arrangements to spend some time in Seward. Now; Seward is no stranger to tourism, thanks to a lovely blend of both…
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