We traveled in three rafts with three guides and 10 other
clients
down the Tashenshini to its confluence with the Alsek and then down the lower
Alsek. These rivers flow through Kluane,
Glacier Bay, and Tatshenshini-Alsek Parks, three parts of a UNESCO World
Heritage Site comprised of four contiguous parks. Wrangell-St. Elias is the other, and together the four protect a total of
about 38,000 square miles.
The UNESCO website says the parks hold "the
largest non-polar icefield in the world and contain examples of some of the
world’s longest and most spectacular glaciers" and "demonstrate some
of the best examples of glaciation and modification of landscape by glacial
action in a region still tectonically active, spectacularly beautiful, and
where natural processes prevail."
We shared this massive protected
place with a
friendly community of strong, good, careful, caring people. Here is
the village, population fifteen, starting with the three guides, third-generation
Tatshenshini guides from Haines, AK, who learned the river from guides who
learned it from guides on the first commercial trip there in 1976.
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| Alisa |
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| Steve |
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| Bryce |
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| Steve and Dale |
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| Glen and Marcia |
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| Donna and Eric |
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| Nancy and Tom |
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| Ray and Connie |
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| John |
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Sarah
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