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Tatshenshini River Rafting Adventure |
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Haines Rafting Trips, Tatshenshini Raft Tours, Guided Rafting Adventures Alaska, Glacier Bay Rafting Trip |
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 Tatshenshini River Rafting Adventure
The Tatshenshini River pours out of the Canadian interior to the Gulf of Alaska and is one of the most visually exciting rivers in the world. The "one of the top" rafting river features exhilarating rapids, canyons, soaring mountains, and unequalled opportunities to view big game. The Tatshenshini Provincial Park is home to an unusually large population of grizzly bears. Other big game includes dall sheep, woodland caribou, wolve and moose. As the river grows from a small alpine stream to a major waterway of grand proportion, so too grows the landscape, until in the final days, 15,000-foot snow-capped peaks encircle the horizon. It is a place still caught in the clutch of the last ice age, a place where the awesome forces of glaciation are still at work. The Tatshenshini is an important salmon spawning river, providing food for grizzlies, and for people. Expeditions originate in Haines, one of southeast Alaska’s most picturesque villages. We drive from there to our put-in location in Canada’s Yukon, float through a corner of British Columbia, and then into Glacier Bay National Park. The river trip ends at Dry Bay. From there we take a scenic flight to Yakutat.
Tatshenshini River Rafting Tour - Itinerary
Haines
Individual arrival in Haines, located 100 miles north of Juneau on the Lynn Canal. We will arrange hotel accommodations, an orientation session, and a gear check on the first evening.
Haines to Tatshenshini River
In the morning we drive 110 miles to our put in near Dalton Post. There we will load our rafts and begin the trip down the Tatshenshini River and quickly enter the first gorge with the main white water of the trip. These spirited class 2 and 3 rapids are continuous fun for the next five miles. Tonight your guides treat you to the first of many fabulous riverside meals. The long daylight hours allow plenty of time for evening activities.
Tatshenshini River to Alsek River
Today the Tatshenshini slows, winding its way through the thick forested valley. The flats offer a perfect habitat for wildlife, especially for moose. In the afternoon the ice caped peaks of the Alsek Mountains come into view. Here the river once again picks up speed, sweeping us further into the pristine alpine wonderland. The Alsek river is gaining volume and braids out into an ever widening valley. The broad open deltas of the tributaries provide us with excellent opportunities to spot a bear, wolf, and occasionally even a wolverine or lynx. Along the mountainside herds of beautiful white mountain goats can be seen grazing on the grassy knolls. We have time to hike to high plateaus for closer looks.
Each day that we float downstream the mountains of the St Elias Range are getting closer. We have entered the land of ice - in one place we see as many as fifteen hanging glaciers. Distant Reynolds Glacier is so immense it seems to blend into the sky like a cloud on the horizon. Once we reach the confluence of the Tatshenshini and the Alsek Rivers you will see an awe inspiring place where four major valleys converge. We will camp near the Alaskan and Glacier Bay National Park Border.
Alsek River to Walker Glacier
We enter Glacier Bay National Park and into the sight of the massive Walker Glacier. From here we can explore the ice and crevasses of this flow, for it is easily accessible by foot. Only by wandering onto the glacier can you truly appreciate just how huge, powerful and alive these glaciers really are.
Walker Glacier to Alsek Lake
On the river again we see more glaciers in a spectacular panorama. The Alsek and Grand Plateau Glaciers come together at the river to form an eight mile wide face of ice arcing around a beautiful blue lake filled with icebergs, the largest found anywhere in Glacier Bay Park. Listen to the tunder as huge ice junks break of the face of the glaicer and tumble into the lake. The entire scene is only the foreground however to one of the world's most beautiful mountains, Mt. Fairweather. The totally ice clad summit soars over 15,000 feet above our camp. If weather permitts we will spend the day rowing out into the lake for a closer look at the glaciers and massive icebergs. Our last camp is the most spectacular one yet. It is here that we coined the phrase "scenic overdose".
Alsek Lake to Dry Bay
On our last day we leave Alsek Lake for the last fifteen miles of our float trip. Our journey ends at Dry Bay, a small collection of buildings on the coast that are the hub of a busy fishing industry on the river. There you will board small charter planes for the flight north to the town of Yakutat where the trip will end.
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Rapid Class
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Departures
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Rate
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Tatshenshini River
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Rafting
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10
12
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10
10
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June 21
June 25
July 03
July 09
July 24
July 28
August 09
August 24
August 24
Sept 03
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$2790.00
$4220.00
$2790.00
$4220.00
$2790.00
$4200.00
$4200.00
$4200.00
$2790.00
$2790.00
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