Backpacking Resurrection Pass Trail - With Cabins!
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- I just can't get enough of Alaska! At the beginning of September I was back up for a 4 day backpacking trip with my son, daughter-in-law, and her sister. It was a great group and a beautiful trail. The total length is about 40 miles (64.37 km) with a total elevation gain of about 3800 feet (1158.24 m)- not bad for Alaska where a lot of the trails are straight up!
Day 1 - Cooper Landing to Romig Cabin: 9.22 miles (14.83 km), 1241 ft (378 m) gain
Day 2 - Romig Cabin to East Creek Cabin: 16.04 miles (25.81 km), 1875 ft (571.5 m) gain
Day 3 - East Creek Cabin to Caribou Creek Cabin: 7.61 miles (12.24 km), 363 ft (110.6 m) gain
Day 4 - Caribou Creek Cabin to Hope: 7.22 miles (11.61 km), 342 ft gain (104.2 m)
Brad and Jessica had managed to snag permits for cabins each of our three nights, so I left my tent at home. This time of year can be really rainy there, so I was feeling pretty enthusiastic about several days without a wet tent no matter what the weather. As it turned out, we had only one day of rain!
We were off to a great start spotting some Dall sheep (no pics) and then belugas on our way to the trailhead! On the trail itself we saw a moose, grouse, and some other birds, a LOT of bear sign, but we visited a lot and they stayed out of sight. I'm pretty sure we saw some wolf scat too.
Thank you to Brad, Jessica and Kayla who are the best hiking buddies anyone could ask for. Also most of the stills and a couple of the clips are from Bradley and Jessica.
This land is the traditional territory of the Dena’ina Ełnena and Dënéndeh people.
Music:
Let's Go Home by Jeremy Black
Sky Skating by Geographer
Snowy Peaks pt 1 by Chris Haugen
Vacation Song by Reed Mathis
Antarctica by Audionautix
Forest Lullabye by Asher Fulero
Out on My Skateboard by Mini Vandals
In the Temple Garden by Aaron Kenny
Wow. What a great adventure. 40 miles thru a beautiful Alaskan wilderness. A trek to be proud of. Good job.
Thanks for watching, and thanks for the support while I was away! It was an amazing experience. 🥰
So many things I've never seen before, just beautiful. I'm going to Santa Fe in late October, can't wait to do some day- hiking, my son & daughter in law love it there, huge change from their years in Orlando.
That sounds amazing! The Santa Fe area is supposed to be really beautiful. I haven't spent time there, but it's on my long list of places I want to check out! Have a great time!
what a beautiful trip. and those cabins are outstanding way to camp to!
Thanks for watching! It was definitely less stressful to know we were going to be sleeping in something that would be harder than a tent for a bear to break into! 😆
Hiking in Alaska is such a bucket list experience! What a great group photo at the trailhead. @ 5:07 Wonderful shot of the falls from up above💦Enjoyable scenery throughout your creation, loved how you highlighted the flora and fauna along the way🦋Great scene of the horses drinking from the stream🐎Such a fun group canoe ride on the lake 🛶Appreciate seeing the different landscapes on your trek even during the rain. LOL at "little hill above Swan Lake". Quite a bit of bushwhacking on the overgrown trail, we're used to that. Yay for wild blueberries, you and your crew definitely earned them! Wow @ 16:38 the combination of the different shades of green are stunning💚The moss you touched was like a fluffy pillow. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of this epic adventure✌🏽 L4, 32:13
Thank you so much for watching and leaving a great comment! I'm glad you enjoyed this. It was definitely an amazing experience and the scenery in Alaska really fills the heart and soul. That moss was unreal feeling. It looked soft, but I had no idea just how soft and deep it was until I went with my impulse to touch it. I'm glad I decided to give it a smush. 😆
Your Spruce Grouse & White Winged Crossbills reminded me of our Common Gallinules we have here in FL. The Beluga Whale was amazing. 😮
I've never seen a common gallinule! I would never have heard of them except I follow Follow Thomas. So many different birds where you are! I was so shocked to see the belugas. We had looked for them before, but didn't really expect to ever see them. It seemed magical.
@@HikerT I subscribe to Follow Thomas also. His videos are great. Even though he lives 3 hours north of me, I have been on a lot of the same bike paths he has traveled to.
no bears? i’m new to alaska and have this in my list for next summer. thank you for sharing an amazing experience!
We saw no bears, but we were a pretty chatty group so that might have kept them away. We saw a LOT of bear sign and some of it was pretty fresh, so they were definitely around. We had our bear spray, and I didn't even feel too nervous going out to the privy at night. I think if I was alone and sleeping in a tent I would have been more nervous, but mostly bears don't want anything to do with people, if you keep the food odors contained/away from you, etc. I highly recommend this trail - I would love to do it again! Thank you so much for watching and commenting!