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Anchorage, Alaska
30th September – 6th October
 2005



Wilderness,
Wildlands
and People:
A Partnership
for the Planet

 


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Overnight Tours:
Exploring Seward & Portage
Aialik Bay – Kenai Fjords
Kenai Explorer
Prince William Sound
Anchorage Talkeetna (Denali) Anchorage
Hutlinana Hot Springs
Alyeska Resort

Day Tours:
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Eagle River Nature Center
Kenai Fjord National Park
Caines Head State Recreation Area
Silver Salmon Fishing Charter
Girdwood Portage Tours
Moose Safari

Flight Tours:
Mt. McKinley Flightseeing Tour
Columbia Glacier/ Prince William Sound
Glacier Expeditions Helicopter Tour
Denali Grand Flightseeing Tour

Local View Tours:
Wildlife & Glacier Cruise
Portage & Endangered Species Tour
Native Steam Bath
Historic Downtown Anchorage
 





Proceedings from the
7th World Wilderness Congress
Now Available

 



 
PRE & POST 8th WWC Tours:

Alaska is awesome, with an array of wild country, history, native cultures, marine areas, natural resources and wildlife unrivaled anywhere in the world. And, many of these sites are very near the host city of Anchorage! The 8th WWC is pleased to offer a diverse range of cost-effective, pre- and
post-Congress tours that provide delegates with superb opportunities to experience Alaska.
 
Pre- and post-tours:Sunday, 2 October tours:Tour Registration Forms:

 


  O V E R N I G H T   T O U R S :
 
 
  Exploring Seward & Portage
  2-Day / 1-Night Tour
   
Go This drive has been voted one of the Top Ten Most Scenic Drives in America by Conde Nast Magazine
    
  Aialik Bay – Kenai Fjords National Park
  4 Day Alaska Sea Kayak Adventure
   
Go Enjoy a morning paddle near camp. Meet the charter boat at mid-day and take another marine wildlife and glacier cruise ...
    
  Kenai Explorer
  2 Day/2 Night Explorer
   
Go Upon arrival in Cooper Landing, you will get settled in to your cabin, enjoy dinner and talk with one of the lodge managers about your upcoming activity day(s).
    
  Prince William Sound Package
  3 Day/ 2 Night
   
Go You can look up in the trees behind the facility to watch nesting bald eagles, wander the beach to see resident sea otters play, or join the camaraderie of the game room.
    
  Anchorage/Talkeetna (Denali)/Anchorage
  2 Day / 1 Night
   
Go This “Northern Exposure” like town is filled with Alaska history and local charm. Talkeetna has long been the staging area for climbers of Mt. McKinley.
    
  Hutlinana Hot Springs
  Overnight Camping/Backpacking
   
Go Soak all evening in a hot creekside pool. Lean back and watch the heavens for the mysterious northern lights (Aurora Borealis) that sway like rainbow-colored curtains across the nighttime sky.
    

  D A Y   T O U R S :
 
 
  Alaska Native Heritage Center
   
Go Upon your arrival at the Native Heritage Center, step into the “Welcoming House” and find yourself immersed in the culture of Alaska’s First People.
    
 
  Eagle River Nature Center
  Day Tour
   
Go Visitors find a quick retreat in the park, With mountains rising almost 7000 feet in elevation just above the Nature Center, it's no wonder that Walter Mendenhall called the Eagle River Valley a "miniature Yosemite".
    
  Kenai Fjord National Park
  Day Tour
   
Go This wildlife and glacier cruise takes you through Resurrection Bay, around Aialik Cape; to the very face of an active tidewater glacier where you’ll spend time watching glaciers calve giant splinters of blue ice into the ocean.
    
  Caines Head State Recreation Area
  1 Day Alaska sea kayaking & hiking adventure
   
Go After lunch, hike back down to beach where our guides will teach you some basic sea kayaking skills before we sea kayak back to Seward.
    
  Silver Salmon Fishing Charter
  Day trip
   
Go This small seaport town is known as the silver salmon capital of Alaska and hosts the largest silver salmon derby in the world. Get ready for the fun that awaits you...
    
  Girdwood/Portage Tour
  Day Tour
   
Go This will be your opportunity to capture a glimpse of reindeer, buffalo, elk, musk ox, moose, bear, eagles... You will then travel down Portage Glacier Road into Portage Valley. Glaciers from an earlier period carved the steep mountain slopes in this magnificent valley.
    
  Outdoor & Nature Photography
  Full – Day Moose Safar
   
Go We’ll hike into the picturesque Chugach Mountains to see and photograph moose during the height of the fall rut.
    
 

  F L I G H T   T O U R S :
 
 
  Mt. McKinley Flightseeing Tour
   
Go This spectacular flight departs Anchorage and takes you within 6 miles of Mt. McKinley’s 20,320 feet summit.
    
  Columbia Glacier/ Prince William Sound
  Day Flightseeing Tour
   
Go Columbia Glacier encompasses a magnificent region of over fifteen thousand miles of water, ice and mountains.
    
  Glacier Expedition
  Day Helicopter Tour
   
Go Explore the untouched mountains and valleys below as you trek towards Knik Glacier.
    
  Denali Grand
  Flightseeing Tour
   
Go Moments later you’ll enter a world of rugged high mountain peaks and wide glacier filled valleys.
    
 

  L O C A L   V I E W    T O U R S :
 
 
  The Alaska Native Heritage Center
  This is a Free afternoon tour
Go ...step into the “Welcoming House” and find yourself immersed in the culture of Alaska’s First People...
    
  Wildlife & Glacier Cruise
   
Go Join us for a magnificent day cruising the spectacular fjords of Alaska.
    
  Portage Sightseeing Tour
   
Go This is Alaska's only drive-through wildlife viewing exhibit where you will have the opportunity to capture a glimpse of a grizzly bear, reindeer, buffalo, elk, caribou, musk ox, moose, eagles...
    
  Native Steam Bath
   
Go Experience includes  history lecture on steam baths and the making of medicine bag...
    
  Historic Downtown Anchorage
   
Go Guided Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Anchorage take visitors back to Anchorage's beginning as a railroad boomtown in 1915.
    
  
 

"The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild."   Isak Dinesen
 

 
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