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A fun early season trip was packrafting Nizina River, The water levels were not too high, and we had a blast running through the canyons and camping beneath the amazing Mile High Cliffs. We had a GREAT bunch of trips shooting brown bears this past summer/fall. A male brown bear on the tundra is dwarfed by a distant ridge of the Alaska Range in Katmai National Park. Really a fun couple of weeks with some great people and lots of opportunities for bald eagle images.

The first one is one Rhane guided in 2017 for us as an exploratory trip, in Lake Clark National Park. We’re offering custom trips to Lake Clark National Park this year, either basecamp trips where we camp, hike and packraft for a week, or a 4-6 day backpack trip through the heart of the Alaska Range in this classic Alaska walk. The 2nd trip is a grizzly bear trip I’ve led for a couple of years as a private trip to the Katmai Coast. The Katmai Coast is a fantastic place, and provides simply stunning backdrops for your bear photography.

Polar bears, black bears and brown bears/grizzly bears can all be found living in the Arctic. Hence, we call it the “Antarctic”, or “Anti-arctic”. polar bears are in the Arctic. Penguins are in the Ant-Arctic .. because if they lived in the Arctic, bears would eat them.

This image was taken by guide Rhane Pfeiffer on an exploratory backpacking/packrafting trip he took in Wrangell – St. Elias National Park. After we spent a few days at Icy Bay, I headed over to The Lost Coast with Tim and Jeannie for a trek along the beach and through the woods. Always a blast, even with some rather adversarial weather in early Sept. 🙂 We had a good couple of weeks photographing polar bears at Barter this year. This year we had awesome conditions on the Chilkat River, one of the best years I’ve seen there in a long time.