Expeditions Alaska

For more than 20 years I’ve been guiding backpacking trips and photo tours in Alaska, including Wrangell-St. Elias, Gates of the Arctic, ANWR & Katmai NP.

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Arctic Alaska is special. We've explored it for 25 years and have barely scraped the surface of what's the see, hear, feel and experience.

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One of our crew standing at the edge of a tarn below a granite wall in the Arrigetch Peaks. The wall goes up a few hundred more feet past the top of the frame.

Photos don't do the scale of this place justice. #ArrigetchPeaks #GatesOfTheArctic #BrooksRange 🧵

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#alaska #brownbears #photography #wildlifephotography #tutorials
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Before you press the shutter, look behind the animal. Can you shift two feet and clean up that branch? Try to control your background.

Wrote about composition and a lot of other things in a long piece. Comment below.

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The smaller one is enjoying himself more than he should be.

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Five packrafts, two guides, no road within two hundred miles. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge #ANWR #packrafting #alaska

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Bear photo tour details for next summer are on the site.
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Two big male brown bears, one salmon, and a stretch of Hallo Bay beach. Bear fights don't last long. They rarely do. But while it's happening, everything else in the bay seems to stop.
Bears fighting over a fish is still the moment that stops conversation on the beach. 🧵

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The Arrigetch valley floor. Granite spires, green meadow, and a pond that has no business being this pretty.

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Antlers on the coastal plain. The caribou herd had passed through earlier. But these antlers had been a few years.

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Last August one of our guides texted me from the field. He'd worked his way into an ice cave under the Bremner Glacier we'd never seen.

The longer you do this, the more you realize how much of any given place you haven't actually seen yet. We put together a new video about that.

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How we eat out here. We don't do freeze-dried lunches on these trips. We carry the good stuff. Lunch in the field separates a guided trip from a long suffering. Our guests have asked for the recipe more than once. There's no recipe. It's a bagel.

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#backpacking #alaska #mileage #terrain #offtrailhiking #hiking #backcountry

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It doesn't matter how many times we tell people, it just doesn't seem to sink in: when backpacking in Alaska with no trails, miles and mileage mean absolutely nothing.

It's not about the distance. It's about the terrain.
Every. Time.

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Some of my strongest wildlife images started with noticing where the light was falling before noticing where the animal was. Learn to look for that.

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I look for spotlights constantly. An animal in a shaft of light against a darker background. That interplay of shadow and illumination.

Joni Mitchell had it right. Shadows and Light. 🧵