Customized Multi-Day Dog Sled Tours & Expeditions, Aurora hunting or travel by canoe in the Alaska, Yukon River Wilderness
Mush your own sled dog team of Alaskan Huskies through the Alaska, Yukon Wilderness and look for the Aurora during the 2025 Winter Season. February still has space available for the winter season. Bookings are now being taken for the 2025 season. Enjoy peaceful solitude!
Our adventures and custom sled dog trips specialize in wilderness travel using highly trained Alaskan huskies. Hunt for the Aurora by winter or take a canoe trip down the Yukon River during the summer.
This area of Alaska is one of the most remote locations left on earth and includes the Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve, which is a 2.2 million acre protected wilderness area. Bush Alaska Expeditions has the only "Commercial Use Authorization" to run dog teams within the Yukon/Charley wilderness area. We live off the land and our clients experience our way of life and the life of the dogs. They are healthy and happy as our clients will see. Learn survival skills, how to mush, how to train dogs and live off-grid. Our tours are Eco-friendly leaving a very small footprint in a pristine world.
Ethan Glanger has created a wonderful video of his time with us in winter of 2023. Visit our video page to see his teaser video.
Unexpected and yet awe inspiring find.
This is solitary, wilderness in its truest form.
Bookings are being taken now for our 2025 winter season. We are looking forward to opening up a new world to each and every client. So many talk about our tours and lifestyle being a life changing event. We would like to share that with you!
Do not hesitate about getting with us with any questions. We would love to share our isolated world with you. Being extremely remote gives each of us good social distancing as you experience a different world…quiet, peaceful, exotic and beautiful with friendly Alaska huskies that would like nothing better than to cuddle with you at night. Our team are raised with lots of free play and run time. They spend the evenings with us. They work hard for us and we work hard for them. You might even want to take a retired husky home with you.
The relationship between musher and dog is often misunderstood. These animals are family and they are loved. It is our heart’s desire that these family members have a wonderful working relationship and when they choose to retire if we are unable to give them the quality time we think they deserve then we search for that perfect home. Check out Denise Lawson with her book series on one of our retired sled dogs and the work she is doing to rehome Sled Dogs.
Here on the homestead, we live with nature. Our world is here to be shared and enjoyed!
and a wonderful article in Virginia Living Magazine
Below are some interesting videos of different seasons in our neck of the wilderness. Please see our video page for more and our Bush Alaska Expeditions Dog Sled Tours Facebook video page to see our dogs at play.
Winter’s Beginning…
Seasons of Yukon River Mushing 2021
Featured Summer Video
See our video page or our blog page for more wonderful videos.
Compliments of earthsendphotography. https://www.facebook.com/earthsendphotography or www.earthsendphotography.com
Summer and into the fall the garden and fishing have priority.
At this time of year the mighty Yukon River begins to run ice and the time of total isolation kicks into gear. There are 2 periods of total isolation from the world due to Alaska’s environmental weather conditions…no way in or out in the fall during freeze up and in the spring during break up. When ice starts flowing you cannot travel the river until the ice grinds to a halt forming a solid, frozen pathway. Snow starts falling bringing the time to pull out sleds, start getting the canine athletes into mushing shape and start work on getting trails established for the winter.
Because a true wilderness experience can become tainted with a large group or "party," we limit our tours to one or two clients plus your guide." (Except on special request for a larger group, by you.) You can customize your tour to your own personal physical abilities and expectations.
Along with the experience of riding the runners behind the dogs, you can spend time hiking alone or with the dogs, skiing, ski joring, snow boarding, aurora watching (on clear nights the northern lights often grace the sky), or just kicking back in a relaxed, remote location. A true wilderness experience is more than just being on the runners behind the dogs. It is every aspect of life out here. We have to temper the amount of time the dogs run with what is best for them while giving you an ultimate wilderness experience. Normally the dogs run 3.5 to 5 hours a day which is approximately 20 to 25 miles. A few days might be shorter and later in the season with longer daylight they might be slightly longer. So expect some time to explore your wilderness world or kick back and relax.
If you are concerned about the environment, rest assured we leave a very small footprint. Because of where we live we have to use everything and waste very little. Running dogs, in itself, is eco-friendly and green as we avoid motors when we travel as much as we can. Every scrap of fish is used, either for ours or the dogs food, the guts go into compost for the garden. Even the dog poop is composted for later use (5 years) in the garden.
While you are here you will be exposed to a variety of hazards and risks, which are inherent in each trip and cannot be eliminated without destroying the unique character of what you want to experience. Rescue and medical facilities are not easily available. Take note the closest doctor or hospital is over 350 air miles from your dog tour starting point at our cabin. Your physical conditioning is essential for your safety. Medical help could be days away!
Your dog sled adventure begins in the small town of Eagle where we will make our way 6 miles down the Yukon River to the home cabin, as there are no roads to our homestead, located deep in the interior/boreal forest. If the timing is right you can run your dog team among thousands of migrating caribou--with wildlife viewing possibilities ranging from exotic Alaskan Sable to Lynx, Moose, Wolves and other Alaskan Interior Wildlife.
Due to the nature of this total wilderness environment the country does not allow for luxury accommodations. However our cabins are warm and inviting. Giving you a true vision of life in the wilderness.
If you are into a true sledding experience that does not require an extreme level of physical fitness, we have trails and very rustic cabins in remote areas that also include everything the expedition type tours offer without the inherent risk and physical requirements. All tours are custom designed to your specifications for each selected client.
Check out client references
“Epic Dog Sled Wilderness Adventure”
“The Adventure of a Lifetime!”
“The Real Alaskan Deal.”
Our clients find this a life changing adventure!
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Check out the virtual tour at the National Park Service, Yukon Charley Rivers Preserve on one of our dog tours within the preserve.