2020 GeoEx Catalog

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

T  hey say it’s easy to get lost in Alaska—a good thing for adventure, if you know where to go in this state larger than 263 Delawares and much tougher to navigate. Our Alaska buffs have hand-selected a number of splendidly isolated wilder- ness lodges (reachable only by boat or bush plane) to immerse you in the natural spectacle. They weave them together as seamlessly as the weather and complex logistics allow, ready to respond to the region’s unpredictable environment. In the rarely visited Tordrillo Mountains, we helicopter to Hayes Glacier ice falls and snowfields, then return to our home on the Iditarod Trail, cozy Winterlake Lodge, to cuddle husky pups and listen to an Iditarod veteran’s tales of the mushing life. Back at sea level on the Kenai Peninsula, we slip into kay- aks and paddle into Tutka Fjord, looking for orca pods before a wine tasting and cooking class on the sprawling deck of Tutka Bay Lodge. The next day may have us jetting over volcanoes to the Katmai Peninsula to stroll alongside coastal brown bears, whose contented bellies are full of fish. In Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, our bush pilot-guide whisks us by Cessna 185 from the luxurious cabins at Ultima Thule Lodge to a sandbar at the edge of a forest and takes us hiking below imposing peaks where no person has set foot. Wildest Alaska DAY HIKING · KAYAKING · RAFTING · FOOD AND WINE | 13 DAYS · CUSTOM

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SUZI ESZTERHAS / MINDEN PICTURES

ROBERTHARDING / ALAMY

Day 1  arrive in Anchorage ✦  2  by float plane to Alaska Range and Winterlake Lodge ✦  3 & 4  excursions by foot, boat, and helicopter ✦  5  fly to Tutka Bay Lodge on Kenai Peninsula ✦  6 & 7  options for bear-watching, hiking, kayaking, whale-watching, cooking, and more ✦  8  fly to Ultima Thule Lodge in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park ✦  9–11  mountain

and glacier exploring ✦  12  fly to Anchorage ✦  13  depart for home.

Alaska

offered may–oct. from $23,520

FACING  Brown bear, Katmai National Park. Flying in by bush plane and spending the day with these coastal grizzlies—watching them dig for clams, fish for salmon, and nurse their young—gives you a whole new perspective on the carnivores.  BELOW  Humpbacks engaging in bubble-net feeding, a learned behavior in which they work together to corral krill or fish, trapping them with bubbles, and then burst to the surface in tandem with their mouths open to feed.

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