Alaska Adventures
Where the wild things are. Some of the world’s most remote, untouched rivers, big land, big waters and our biggest adventures – Alaska Adventures – our biggest expeditions.
Shakespeare’s assertion that “Man is the measure of all things” could not have been made by anyone who has spent time in Alaska. In this land, man is humbled by the sheer mythic proportions of the landscape. The rivers and the vastness of space were made for Titans to roam and explore; the towering mountains were merely their thrones.
O.A.R.S.’ Alaska river rafting trips offer you a way to completely escape civilization. On the river you will see no cars, no bridges, no wires. You will not hear a telephone or a television. But if you ever thought of this part of the world as empty, a few days of Alaska river rafting will change that impression. Distances between things may be great, but the abundance of life will constantly surprise you.
Alaska hosts great mountains and vast glaciers. It houses generations of animals of the most majestic quality, and it has provided residence for some of the most exciting people this earth has known: the Athabascans, the Tlingits and much later, the Eskimos and Aleuts.
THE FACTS:
At over 150 miles in length, the Tatshenshini River is surrounded by a system of international parks - British Columbia’s Tatshenshini Wilderness Preserve, the Yukon’s Kluane National Park and Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. “The Tat” is therefore the largest preserved river system in the world. It also springs from a collection of sources in a glacial region that extends from the northwest corner of B.C. into the Yukon and Alaska - the largest non-polar ice cap in the world