Paddling Alaska
A Guide To The State's Classic Paddling Trips
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2009
160 pages
978-1-4617-4699-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Paddling Alaska, you can drive to all the lakes and rivers described in this guide. This fact might sound unremarkable, but Alaska is mostly wilderness, with few highways. This is the first guidebook to organize journeys in this manner.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
9,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4617-4699-7 (9781461746997)
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Dan Maclean
Paddling Alaska
Kayak, Canoe, Paddleboard, and Raft the Greatest Fresh Waters in the State
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Paddling Alaska
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Dan Maclean brings close to four decades of paddling experience, including a decade of Alaska paddling, to this book. He spent five of those summers solo canoeing the five longest rivers in Alaska from beginning to end. His previous guidebook, Paddling the Yukon River and its Tributaries, the result of those journeys, is the first and only guide to paddling the entire 2,000 miles of the Yukon River. It was a finalist for the Independent Publishers Book Award in 2006. Dan Maclean is a high school science teacher and lives with his family in Anchorage.
Content
- Paddling Alaska
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Paddling Alaska's Freshwater
- Map Legend
- I. Anchorage Area
- 1 Portage Creek
- 2 Campbell Creek
- Anchorage Urban Lakes
- 3 Goose Lake
- 4 Jewel Lake
- 5 DeLong Lake
- 6 Eagle River-Including the North Fork
- 7 Beach Lake
- 8 Mirror Lake
- 9 Eklutna Lake
- II. Matanuska and Susitna Valley
- 10 Knik River
- 11 Little Susitna River
- Nancy Lake State Recreation Area and Canoe Trails
- 12 Nancy Lake
- 13 Tanaina Lake Canoe Loop Trail
- 14 South Rolly Lake and Campground
- 15 Red Shirt Lake
- 16 Willow Creek and Susitna River-Parks Highway to Deshka Landing
- Talkeetna Area Lakes
- 17 Benka Lake
- 18 Tigger Lake
- 19 X-Y Lakes
- III. Kenai Peninsula
- 20 Upper Kenai River-Cooper Landing Put-in to Upper Skilak Lake Campground
- 21 Middle Kenai River-Lower Skilak Lake Campground to Bing's Landing
- 22 Kelly and Peterson Lakes
- 23 Swan Lake Canoe Route and 24 Swanson River Canoe Route
- 25 Kasilof River
- IV. Northern Interior
- 26 Upper Tanana River-Northway to George Lake Lodge
- 27 Tanana River to Yukon River-Fairbanks to Galena
- 28 Clearwater River to Clearwater Lake
- 29 Chena Lake Recreation Area
- 30 Upper Chena River-4th Bridge to Grange Hall Road
- 31 Yukon River-Eagle to Circle
- V. Southern Interior
- 32 Lower Tangle Lakes and Upper Delta River-Denali Highway to Richardson Highway Mile 212.5
- 33 Upper Tangle Lakes
- 34 Main Branch of the Gulkana River-Paxson Lake to Sourdough
- 35 Little Nelchina River to Nelchina River to Tazlina Lake to Tazlina River
- 36 Copper River-Chitina to Cordova
- Appendix A: General Alaska Paddling Information
- Appendix B: Suggested Packing List
- Paddling Index
- About the Author
