Traverse Alaska - Private Hiking and Rafting Adventures

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • TripAdvisor
  • Search

907-903-0979 | info@traversealaska.com

  • About
    • What We Provide
    • Our Team
    • Gallery
    • Blog
    • FAQ
    • Contact Us
  • Winter Trips
  • Day Trips
  • Multi-Day Backpacking
  • Rafting & Packrafting
  • Other Adventures
    • Custom Itineraries
    • Transportation
    • Courses
    • Custom Delivery

Our Team

Traverse Alaska was founded so that visitors can experience a bit of Alaska magic. Each and every adventure is personalized to challenge clients while discovering the last frontier at their own unique pace. It is our quest to inspire a deeper connection with the natural world and foster a greater respect and understanding of wild lands. We believe that the only way to do that is to get out and play. Feel what it’s like to walk on the tundra, splash glacial water on your face, and learn about the flora and fauna that have also chosen to make this land home.

Meet the Traverse Alaska Guides

IMG_0774

Joe Meyer

I came north from Kentucky in 2007 to play outside in the wildest mountains I could find, and decided to make Alaska my home.  Since I arrived in Alaska I’ve been guiding visiting family, friends and clients through this wild and amazing territory and I’ve always taken pride in knowing they’ve experienced some of the best Alaska has to offer. You have to get out and play.  Being a part of the land of the Far North for even a moment is an incredible experience. My initial plan, when I first stepped foot in Alaska, was to “check it out” and after all these years, I’m still “checking it out”.
You don’t have to be a world-class outdoors person to go on a trip with me, however, you must have an adventurous spirit, enjoy being active in the outdoors, and have a positive attitude.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Mollie Foster

I arrived in Alaska in 2009 for a photography job for a summer. One summer in Denali spiraled into the next, and summers spun into winters, and before I knew it, I became a year-round Alaskan. My work experience in this wild landscape includes Author of “Hiking Alaska”, directing and guiding week-long educational programs, guiding small-group photography courses, photographing river rafting adventures, and writing/photographing stories for a range of media outlets across Alaska. I spend most of my time exploring Alaska by human power—biking, hiking, skiing, and packrafting—always with a camera in hand to document experiences along the journey. Every day I feel lucky to witness this untamed frontier and love learning about its natural history, culture, and impacts on the future. Alaska’s wild landscape has a way of grabbing you in a way few other places do, and I look forward to sharing those elements that make this environment so captivating.

Kierre Childers

Growing up in Indiana, my love for the outdoors started at a young age working in a local park with my mom and mushroom hunting with my dad. I moved to Alaska in 2015 to volunteer as a trail crew member at Nancy Lake State Recreation Area in Willow and now can’t imagine calling any place else home.
Prior to Alaska, I completed a B.S. in communication and an MBA with an emphasis in entrepreneurship. I also worked and lived abroad including stints in Switzerland, New Zealand and Nicaragua. Besides being taking people outside, some of my favorite things to share about the last frontier include convincing anyone and everyone to come visit in March. Really – it’s my favorite month here. I also love finding great food (mostly thanks to my fabulous foodie friends who supply consistent recommendations) and exploring Alaska’s brewery scene.

Erica Goad

As a Colorado native, I came north to Alaska seeking out true Wilderness (with a capital “W”). I’m thrilled to make Interior Alaska my permanent home! I grew up skiing, hiking, backcountry hunting, mountain biking, rock climbing, river rafting, and other ways to get outside. Most recently, I spent the winter mushing dogs through Denali’s wilderness as a kennels ranger. As a wildlife biologist by training, I have worked on projects surveying Dall sheep and wolves in Denali National Park, mountain lions in Grand Canyon National Park, wolverines in the forests of Idaho, mountain pine beetles along Colorado’s Front Range, ensuring habitat protection on ranches in eastern Colorado, and studying critically-endangered black rhinoceros in Namibia. I have a Master’s Degree in ecology from Colorado State University and a Bachelor’s in biology and environmental studies from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

I love immersing myself in wild places, discovering something new every day, and sharing these inspiring experiences with other people. Whether it’s exploring mountains, rivers and valleys by foot, ski or bike, observing wildlife in their natural habitat, learning about cultural history, or bending down to enjoy each unique wildflower, Alaska has many powerful stories to tell to willing listeners.

 

Margi Dashevsky

I grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska and love exploring and learning about amazing places and calling the mountains home. I have spent four years working as a naturalist guide in Denali National Park during the summer.  I graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in Environmental Studies and concentration in Field Ecology and completed a Masters in Education Equity and Cultural Diversity at the University of Colorado at Boulder. After teaching science at the High Mountian Institute in Leadville, I happy to once again be living in Alaska year round! I enjoy skijoring with my dogs and frolicking outside every chance I get, whether its an evening stroll or a month-long paddle.

 

IMG_1399

Emily Myhre

I moved to Alaska from Minnesota to work as a sled dog handler at a small family kennel in Denali Park and have been loving every minute of the adventure. In my free time I like to go skijoring, packrafting, hiking, canoeing and biking – trying to explore as much of my new backyard in as many ways as possible! Before moving to Alaska I lead 10-40 day canoe trips on remote rivers in Northern Minnesota and as far north as the Arctic Ocean in Canada. I love sharing my passion for reveling in wild places with those around me. Alaska is an incredible untamed place to explore. I enjoy the freedom of being able to take off in any direction and immerse myself in wilderness whether it’s discovering a patch of sweet cranberries, rinsing my face in a glacial stream, smelling the aroma of Labrador Tea or spotting other wildlife that call this place home.

IMG_1399

Alexander Lee

Mountains have felt like home for as long as I can remember. I have worked as a guide on and off for more than ten years, sharing my passion for the backcountry with people by foot, ski, and climbing rope.

I grew up exploring the wooded hills of New England. A passion for nature took me west. After 6 years of summers in Denali and winters in Colorado, I ended up with a Ph.D. in environmental philosophy  and a love for the 49th State. I now teach philosophy as an Assistant Professor at Alaska Pacific University and use the outdoors as my ‘thinking laboratory’—doing research and writing on the ethics of conservation and environmental change.

My experience in the mountains includes ascents of Denali (20,310ft), Pico de Orizaba (18,491ft), over 60 summits of Colorado’s ‘14ners’ (several in winter, and several by ski descent), expeditions to the Alaska Range, the Canadian Rockies, the Cascades, South America, and beyond.

In my free time, I am an avid backcountry skier, climber, nature photographer, writer, and wonderer of wild places.

From the Blog

Custom delivery service news story

May 29, 2020

Tourism business shifts to deliveries for locals: “We had to pivot.” So they created Traverse Alaska Logistics and Learn More

Trip Planning and Covid-19

April 29, 2020

Safety is our top priority and our team continues to monitor and evaluate best practices associated with the Covid-19 Learn More

Production Shoot with Pastrana family

December 15, 2019

In June 2019 we worked on a Production Shoot with Professional Motorsports and Stuntman Travis Pastrana and Yokohama Tires Learn More

Traverse Alaska Philosophy

We are dedicated to providing experiences that build meaningful connections with Alaska. Our team works diligently to immerse clients in educational exploration. Each and every adventure is personalized to challenge clients while discovering the last frontier at their own unique pace.

Traverse Alaska

Human Powered Adventure

Phone
(907) 903-0979

Email
info@traversealaska.com

Mailing Address
PO Box 90875 | Anchorage, AK 99509

Testimonials

Katie K. – Rochester, MN

"Joe & Mollie made trip planning so easy for my husband and I. It was our first time in Alaska and they did an amazing job making our vacation one of our most memorable Learn More

Read All Testimonials

Instagram

“I think of two landscapes: one outside the self “I think of two landscapes: one outside the self, the other within. 
•
The external landscape is the one we see-not only the line and color of the land and its shading at different times of the day, but also its plants and animals in season, its weather, its geology… Perhaps a black-throated sparrow lands in a paloverde bush… the smell of the creosote bush….all elements of the land, and what I mean by “the landscape.”
•
The second landscape I think of is an interior one, a kind of projection within a person of a part of the exterior landscape. Relationships in the exterior landscape include those that are named and discernible, such as the nitrogen cycle, or a vertical sequence of Ordovician limestone, and others that are uncodified or ineffable, such as winter light falling on a particular kind of granite, or the effect of humidity on the frequency of a blackpoll warbler’s burst of song….
•
The shape and character of these relationships in a person’s thinking, I believe, are deeply influenced by where on this earth one goes, what one touches, the patterns one observes in nature- the intricate history of one’s life in the land, even a life in the city, where wind, the chirp of birds, the line of a falling leaf, are known. These thoughts are arranged, further, according to the thread of one’s moral, intellectual, and spiritual development. 
•
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes."
― Barry López, “Crossing Open Ground”
📸 @molliefostermedia
2020 Highlights: Getting outside safely with trave 2020 Highlights: Getting outside safely with travelers.
•
This year was different in so many ways, however safety has always—and continues to be—a top priority for us. Whether exploring in the backcountry for multiple days, or front-country day hikes, or driving on a main highway, safety is always on our minds.
•
In 2020 we did not guide as many people as a typical year of course, however we made adjustments such as people driving their own private group in a separate car, and keeping at least 6 feet distance when outside. We’ll see what the next year brings, but whatever it is, safety is always on our minds.
•
This photo was captured pre-covid. Although in winter with buffs and face coverings to stay warm, we were following covid protocol before it was a thing! 
#2020highlights
We have so much fun hiking and learning with activ We have so much fun hiking and learning with active families! Photo from a Private, Custom Full-Day Adventure on the tundra in the Denali area. We spent the day hiking, learning about the flora and fauna, and even stumbled upon a caribou shed along our hike away from crowds and maintained trails. Contact us to customize a private trip for you and your loved ones next year!
#FindYourWildLife #denaliofftrailhike
Sometimes the best wildlife viewing is literally o Sometimes the best wildlife viewing is literally out your front door. That is, if you're staying at @tonglenlakelodge. Opening February 2021 for private stays at the Guesthouse this winter.
Video: Sarah Crowley
What a difference a day can make in the winter. Fr What a difference a day can make in the winter. From frosty trees in subzero temperatures with minimal snow
—>snow-covered limbs and above zero temperatures. 
#winterindenali #officeview
Just like that—it’s winter in Denali! #openyea Just like that—it’s winter in Denali!
#openyearround #traversealaska

Follow Us on Instagram →


Tonglen Lake LodgeDenali National ParkMacLaren River LodgeCamp Denali & North Face LodgeDenali Mountain Works
Top of Page
Copyright © 2021 Traverse Alaska - Private Hiking and Rafting Adventures · All rights reserved. Website by Sundog Media, LLC · Log in