Whitewater Rafting
Tours in Alaska.

Alaska Drift Away Fishing operates guided salmon and trout trips on the Kenai and Russian rivers out of Soldotna on the Kenai Peninsula, fishing what are widely considered the most productive freshwater sport waters in the world. The Kenai is the only river that has produced documented king (chinook) salmon over ninety pounds, and its summer sockeye runs routinely exceed a million fish through the Russian River confluence. Guides offer drift-boat float trips for sockeye, silver, and pink salmon as well as trophy rainbow trout and Dolly Varden, plus walk-and-wade trips on the Russian River for fly anglers. Trips run from the king season in late May and June through the silver salmon push of August and September, with the trophy rainbow trout fishery peaking in fall as the salmon spawn. The Kenai Peninsula's glacial-blue water, brown bear sightings along the bank, and bald eagles working the runs are part of every day on the river.

Pangaea Adventures is a sea-kayak and glacier-paddling outfitter based in Valdez at the head of Prince William Sound, one of the largest and most sheltered fjord systems on the Pacific coast of North America. Day tours paddle Valdez Arm and Shoup Bay, while flagship multi-day expeditions are water-taxied west to the Columbia Glacier — a tidewater glacier that has retreated more than twenty kilometers since the 1980s and now calves into a bay choked with house-sized icebergs — and to the actively calving face of Meares Glacier in Unakwik Inlet. Wildlife along the routes includes sea otters rafted in kelp beds, harbor seals hauled out on the bergs, Steller sea lions, humpback and orca whales, and dense colonies of black-legged kittiwakes nesting on the cliffs. Guides combine paddling instruction with interpretation of the Sound's glacial geology and its long recovery from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, which made landfall here. Trips run from May through early September.