The wife suggested going to Alaska for our anniversary. I couldn't argue with that. We haven't bought flights yet but are looking at flying into ANC on 8/31 and out on 9/9. Mostly looking to relax, do some sight seeing, some day hikes. check out some shit that we don't have near us in SLC like glaciers and whatnot. If the weather cooperates we are planning to bring stuff to do a couple of days of backpacking and hoping to car camp the rest of the time. Is it pretty easy to find places to pull off a road and setup camp, BLM style?
To save money we're planning to just rent some normal 2wd car, unless that's a huge mistake and we need 4wd?
Right now we are kind of looking at spending most of our time around Chugach SP/NF. I've got some info for possible backpacking around crow pass/resurrection pass/lost lake. Most of the cabins look to be booked up already but there are some still available for crow pass but that's not really a requirement. We also were looking into some glacier tours out of Whittier and maybe the Exit glacier.
I've been looking into going up to Denali as well but wasn't sure if that would be too much driving to cram into a week?
I did find some old posts on here that suggested skipping the Chugach and heading out to McCarthy and the Wrangell-St Elais NP. Is that something I should be looking into?
Any help would be much appreciated. Seems like there's a million things to do up there and obviously we can't do them all but hoping not to miss any must see/do/eat/drink things.
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