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While we all love the long, bright days of June and July up in McCarthy, as summer comes to an end and nighttime creeps back into the evening, we are treated to one of the most amazing gifts [...]

As we bring 2019 to a close, we went through our photos from the season, and wanted to share our favorites! This summer will go down in the books for many reasons – lots of sunshine, fun [...]

After a day of hiking or ice climbing on the Root Glacier, it’s fun to get a birds-eye view of the Kennicott Valley! Here’s a fun video created by our former owner, Gaia, as she flew [...]

Living in rural Alaska, we do lots of our shopping at Costco. Lots… As it turns out, Costco offers some great options for backpacking foods, and we’d like to share some of our favorites with you! [...]

By Sarah Ebright, Guide “So where do you get your groceries out here? Valdez?”           “Nope, we drive 8 hours to Anchorage.” It was early August, and I hadn’t done a [...]

By Ryan Smith, Guide It all started as an iconic mountaineering trip to Mt. Bona. This may sound confusing given the title, but in a classic Wrangell’s twist, the weather always has the final [...]

Our team left their high camp just after midnight this morning for a proper alpine start! They climbed the remaining 3,000 vertical feet over 2 miles this morning and hit the summit at 5:15am!! [...]

Update on our team on Mt. Sanford (the “not Bona” team!). They have been making amazing and steady progress since their drop-off on Tuesday and are now up at 13,300ft at the base of [...]

Some things are within our control as guides and others are firmly not. In this case, a very dubious weather forecast over the next ten days led us to pull the plug on our team of 9 (6 clients [...]

Here’s what will likely/hopefully be our final update from the St. Elias Expedition Team before they are back here in McCarthy and we are sharing actual images and stories from their trip [...]