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Alaska Adventure Travel: The Alaska Moment

Ten trips into the changing wilds of America's Last Frontier.  
Text by Jeff Rennicke   Photograph by Macduff Everton

Photo: Kayaking Alaska's Glacier Bay

NEW VIEW: Kayakers skim Muir Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park, where the shoreline rises an inch and a half each year as weighty glaciers retreat.


Alaska isn't in the spotlight very often. Make that every half century or so. But when it is, it has something to do with preserving the big, untamed, flabbergasting wilderness.

Here are ten trips in the boot prints of the first people to explore—and fight for—the great state. Trips into a land changed by warming and politics. Trips that use new travel tech to take us farther than ever before. Trips that prove Alaska's time is now.

The Alaska Range >>
New Frontier: Scouting the Iditarod
Classic: Hiking Denali's Empty Quarter


Arctic National Wildlife Refuge >>
New Frontier: Collecting First Descents
Classic: Finding a World Gone Silent


Glacier Bay National Park >>
New Frontier: Rafting to No-Man's-Land
Classic: Chasing Glacial Ghosts



Tongass National Forest >>
New Frontier: Cruisin' the Passage
Classic: Saving Giant Trees


Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve and Klondike Country >>
New Frontier: Crossing the Chillkoot Pass
Classic: Running the River Wildest



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