Brooks Range Backpacking

Brooks Range Backpacking

North of the Arctic Circle and aptly dubbed Land of the Midnight Sun, much of the landscape in the Brooks Range lies above tree line and elevations range from sea level to over 9,000 feet.

Designed especially for students ages 23 and older, this 14-day backpacking course packs in backcountry travel lessons in the steep shale mountains and expansive tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Philip Smith Mountains.

This is not a guided tour. You’ll learn the skills in these two weeks needed to travel in a mountain environment long after your course ends.

The Brooks Range is one of the wildest mountain ranges in North America. Stretched across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle, this Land of the Midnight Sun is defined by big open river bottoms, steep mountain slopes and expansive tundra.

After flying into the area with an experienced Alaskan bush pilot, you’ll spend the first 10 days of this extended Arctic expedition on foot, moving across the tundra and up braided river channels.

Then you’ll swap boots and backpacks for folding canoes and touring kayaks for a three-week river trip on either the Sheenjek River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic National Park, one of North America’s largest mountain-ringed river basins.

The mountains are spectacular and rugged and the rivers flow through wilderness for hundreds of miles. It’s possible to see Dall sheep, moose, caribou, wolves, black and grizzly bears, and lynx as you travel.

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