Itinerary

Arrive Anchorage.

Visit downtown. Group dinner.

Morning visit to Beluga Point and Potter Marsh Wildlife Viewing Boardwalk. Afternnon flights to Port Alsworth then to Telaquana Lake. Walk to camp 1 (3.9km).

Walk to camp 2 (7.7km). Short walk from camp (3.8km).

Walk to camp 3 (8.0km).

Walk above camp (1.9km). Walk to Turquoise Lake (6.3km). River crossing aborted due thunderstorm and high water level. Camp 4 on north side.

Relocate to camp 5 on south side of Turquoise Lake (2.3km). Afternoon walk along the valley towards the Turquoise glacier (11.4km).

Up "valley 1", across a pass (1300m), and into the Emerson Creek valley to camp 6 (10.72km).

Down the Emerson Creek valley to camp 7 on the north shore at the end of the upper lake (12.5km).

Due to high water levels, ferried to the south shore by a float plane come to pick up another group. Walk to camp 8 (6.4km). Visit Dick Proenneke's log cabin.

Flights to Port Alsworth then Merrill Field Airport.

Depart Anchorage.