Alaska Climbing Vacations

Alaska Climbing Travel Guide

• Alaska Overview
• Alaska Hotels
• Alaska Attractions
• Alaska Feature Articles
• Alaska Vacation Rentals

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• Biking
• Climbing
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• Paddling
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• Beach Guide
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• Family Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
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  • Road and Rail Journeys

Top Climbing Destinations In Alaska

• Denali National Park, AK
  

Travel Guides In Alaska

• Anchorage and Seward, AK
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Family Guide
• Denali National Park, AK
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Family Guide
• Homer, AK
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Ketchikan, AK
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, AK
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Talkeetna, AK
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, AK
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Chugach National Forest, AK
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Valdez-Cordova, AK
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, AK
  • Active and Adventure Guide

Pacific Coast Climbing States/Provinces

• Alaska
• California
• Oregon
• Washington

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

• Mid-Atlantic
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
• Midwest
  • Indiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
• Mountain West
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Utah
  • Wyoming
• Northeast
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Vermont
• Pacific Coast
  • Alaska
  • California
  • Hawaii
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• Southeast
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
• Southwest
  • Arizona
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Texas

Top Alaska Climbing Destinations

• Denali National Park

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Feature Articles

• GORP - Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, Alaska - Climbing & Mountaineering
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• Take it to the Top: Ten Great Alpine Adventures
  The Denali Expedition: Climbing Mt. McKinley
• Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
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  Trek Alaska's Monster Backcountry
• 10. Mount McKinley
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  Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
• One-Man Towns, Eight Paved Highways, 129 Million Acres of Forest. Alaska? Naturally.
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  Mountaineering in the Brooks Range

Practical Advice

• A Mountain Climbing Primer
  
• A Trekking Primer
  
• How to Build a Bomber Anchor
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  To set up your own anchor for a climbing top rope (or slackline, or car stuck in a ditch), all you need is a 20-foot piece of webbing, a carabiner, and a tree.

GORPTravel Trips

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  Rock Climbing Courses in Alaska
  Alaska Mountain Guides
  from $160, 1-5 days
  These trips emphasize developing individual climbing technique and skills. They are based on a hands-on approach and are conducted in an amazing...
  
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  Alaska Mountaineering and Sea Kayaking
  Alaska Mountain Guides
  from $1260, 7-10 days
  This spectacular trip combines climbing and trekking in the mountains and ice fields surrounding Glacier Bay National Park with sea kayaking in the...
  
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  Denali Mountaineering Expedition
  Alaska Mountain Guides
  from $4800, 22 days
  Join Alaska Mountain Guides & Climbing School Inc for an expedition to the highest mountain in North America. Denali is frequently considered to be...
  
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  Alaska Expedition Primer
  Alaska Mountain Guides
  from $1260, 7 days
  This course is designed for individuals seeking to learn expedition skills. It combines instruction with a series of climbs that practice and build...
  
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  Ice Climbing Courses in Alaska
  Alaska Mountain Guides
  from $200, 1-5 days
  These courses are designed to give participants a hands-on introduction to ice climbing. Building solid climbing skills and confident climbers is the...
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.
• Complete Gear Archives: Climbing
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things climbing.
• Women’s Climbing Gear Essentials
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• Climbing Gear Essentials
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• Ice Climbing
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  Upgrade your frozen fun with the best new tools and apparel.

Fitness

• Mountain Athlete
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  Jackson, Wyoming
• Chalk It Up
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  Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day
• Hot Flex
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  Meet your secret muscles—and find out how these hidden assets can leverage your leap to peak performance
• Winter's Wonderland Workout
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  Class Outside

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Attractions

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Hotels

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GOOD FOR CLIMBING

Valdez Harbor Inn
100 Fildago Drive
Valdez, AK 99686 Map

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from: $129

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Totem Inn
144 E. Egan
Valdez, AK 99686 Map

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from: $99

GOOD FOR CLIMBING

Glacier Sound Inn
210 Egan Drive
Valdez, AK 99686 Map

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4.5 out of 5

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