Adventure Kayaking: Glacier Bay

by Don Skillman

Book Overview

This comprehensive book covers over 300 miles of trips in and around Glacier Bay in Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast Alaska. Glacier Bay is an astounding 65 mile-long fjord that splits into numerous inlets and coves offering miles of spectacular paddling. A drop-off service allows you to start your trips in the heart of the secluded, pristine Bay. Calving ice, deep blue glacial streams, and the grandeur of three mountain ranges are just a sample...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089997225X
• ISBN13: 9780899972251
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Wilderness Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Terrific guide to kayak paddling/camping in Glacer Bay

Interestingly written and very informative. His maps are rather crude but used with a NOAA map (17318, 17318a, 17318b) they are excellent guides to camping sites, points of interest, and dangerous currents. 6 of us did a self-guided 115 mile trip over 11 days based on this book. Excellent description of routes almost mile by mile. A must buy if you are going to do any lengthy trip and are trying to minimize surprises.

Extremely valuable resource. Gave me courage to go solo.

Provides all the information needed for brief or extended solo trips in Glacier Bay National Park. Includes excellent summaries of a dozen multi-day trips including trip highlights, photos, distances, ratings of difficulty, likely hazards, hints for locating campsites and maps suitable for scoping your trip. Also includes additional resources you may need in the appendix along with phone numbers. The book gave me the courage and information I needed for my first long, solo trip in a wilderness area. An excellent addition to my library.