Tour description: Challenging Canoe Tour, Northwest Brooks Range, 375 miles, class 1 to 3 (easy to difficult), Gates of the Arctic, Noatak National Preserve.
2012 Booking Code: WTNR
2012 Price per person: USD 4795.00
Date: Sunday, July 29th - Friday, August 17th, 2012
Duration: 20 days / 19 nights
Number of participants: min. 5, max. 9 persons

Included:

• Overnight in tent, dinner and breakfast in Fairbanks at the beginning of the trip
• transportation before trip
• flight from Fairbanks to Bettles
• floatplane from Bettles to Noatak River
• meals in the wilderness
• canoe rental
• flight from Noatak (pull - put point) via Kotzebue to Fairbanks
• guide

Detailed itinerary:
This is the longest, most remote, and possibly the most challenging of our Tours. We start the tour in Fairbanks, taking plenty of time for proper orientation and preparation before departing on this expedition-class trip. We fly to Bettles in a mail plane, and then take an air taxi onward to a lake in the west-central Brooks Range. From here, the Noatak flows westward towards Siberia, into the most sparsely populated region of Alaska. Once our float plane drops us off, we will travel for 16 days without any connection to civilization whatsoever. We will cover between 30 and 35 miles each day in our canoes. The landscape changes gradually from mountainous tundra to a large, windy basin; from broad canyons to mixed boreal forests. This river system is so undisturbed by human activity, that it is one of the few biosphere reserves used as a benchmark for measuring global ecological change. For all true wilderness fans or canoe adventurers, this is truly the ultimate tour.