For more than 20 years I’ve been guiding backpacking trips and photo tours in Alaska, including Wrangell-St. Elias, Gates of the Arctic, ANWR & Katmai NP.
Joined November 2009
- Tweets 2,000
- Following 294
- Followers 428
- Likes 295
140 Photos and videos
The smaller one is enjoying himself more than he should be.
2
1
16
Five packrafts, two guides, no road within two hundred miles. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge #ANWR #packrafting #alaska
14
Two big male brown bears, one salmon, and a stretch of Hallo Bay beach. Bear fights don't last long. They rarely do. But while it's happening, everything else in the bay seems to stop.
Bears fighting over a fish is still the moment that stops conversation on the beach. 🧵
1
88
Bear photo tour details for next summer are on the site.
expeditionsalaska.com/explor…
11
The Arrigetch valley floor. Granite spires, green meadow, and a pond that has no business being this pretty.
1
38
Antlers on the coastal plain. The caribou herd had passed through earlier. But these antlers had been a few years.
1
2
11
Last August one of our guides texted me from the field. He'd worked his way into an ice cave under the Bremner Glacier we'd never seen.
The longer you do this, the more you realize how much of any given place you haven't actually seen yet. We put together a new video about that.
1
13
How we eat out here. We don't do freeze-dried lunches on these trips. We carry the good stuff. Lunch in the field separates a guided trip from a long suffering. Our guests have asked for the recipe more than once. There's no recipe. It's a bagel.
5
It doesn't matter how many times we tell people, it just doesn't seem to sink in: when backpacking in Alaska with no trails, miles and mileage mean absolutely nothing.
It's not about the distance. It's about the terrain.
Every. Time.
1
57
I look for spotlights constantly. An animal in a shaft of light against a darker background. That interplay of shadow and illumination.
Joni Mitchell had it right. Shadows and Light. 🧵
1
41
Some of my strongest wildlife images started with noticing where the light was falling before noticing where the animal was. Learn to look for that.
expeditionsalaska.com/rambli…
24
We had one of the BEST afternoons shooting this trio of bears. A sow and her 2 year old twin cubs went at it for HOURS.
Our bear tours are full for 2026, but follow us for 2027 dates. And check the website for more info. Link below. 👇
1
1
3
141
He was just walking until he wasn't.
A salmon flicked past at the riffle's edge and the bear went from zero to flat-out in about three steps. We had time for two frames. This was the second.
1
1
51
Expeditions Alaska retweeted
To be clear: the Arctic Refuge coastal plain is the most biologically sensitive part of the refuge. It's where polar bears den and the Porcupine caribou herd gives birth. No amount of oil justifies what drilling would do to this place.
This Friday @Interior will hold an oil/gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest undeveloped landscapes in North America. This is the first of at least four before 2035.
blm.gov/press-release/blm-an…
20
945
1,918
34,736