Curt and Ann both lead water trips for the Sierra Club.  Curt's trip in 2005 was a raft trip down the Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers.  The Tat starts in the southwest corner of the Yukon, flows south through the far northwest corner of British Columbia and merges with the Alsek, which then flows into Alaska and finally reaches the Pacific Ocean between Glacier Bay and Yakutat.  We spent nine days covering 130 river miles.

  These rivers cut through the St. Elias Mountains, home to many of the highest peaks in North America and the world's third largest ice field (after Antarctica and Greenland).   The entire area is a United Nations World Heritage Site that is larger than Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined.  It is the largest protected ecosystem on earth and has the highest density of brown bears found anywhere.  This fabulous trip takes you through absolutely pristine subarctic wilderness where not even a trail is to be found.

  These photos give you only the poorest hint of what grand adventures await you here.  Curt rates the Tat-Alsek as second only to the Grand Canyon on his list of the world's greatest river trips.  This is a trip of a lifetime, which you should do every year.