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National Geographic Recognizes Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth
In November 2007, Equinox Wilderness Expeditions was recognized by National Geographic Adventure Magazine as one of the World's Best Adventure Travel Companies! We are pleased to be recognized for our commitment to two key principles of ecotourism--resource stewardship and enviromental awareness, as well as our adventure quotient.
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Best Trips 2007 | Outside Online
Canoe With The Caribou In Alaska: The 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve, on Alaska's north coast, holds the largest swath of unprotected wilderness in the U.S. and you needn't look beyond its name to guess its primary purpose. But the region harbors much more than black gold: Half a million western arctic caribou march across its sprawling plains each year, along with grizzlies and wolves. On this 11-day trip, you'll follow the herd by foot and in twoperson canoes on the untamed Kokolik River, hiking where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers once roamed.
OUTFITTER: Equinox Wilderness Expeditions, 604-222-1219, equinoxexpeditions.com;
PRICE: $4,495; DIFFICULTY: Moderate; WHEN TO GO: June
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Best Trips 2005 | Outside Online
Nunavut/Northwest Territories: It's hard to get more remote than this: The Kuujjua River traverses the High Arctic plain on Victoria Island, a landmass with only two villages. Over 16 days in July, you'll canoe approximately 150 miles of Class II to III wh
itewater, among caribou, white wolves, musk ox, and not a soul but your expedition mates.
OUTFITTER: Equinox Wilderness Expeditions, 604-222-1219, equinoxexpeditions.com;
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Explore Top Trips of 2005
Kuujjua River selected as one of the Top Trips of 2005
OUTFITTER: Equinox Wilderness Expeditions, 604-222-1219, equinoxexpeditions.com;
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2004 Outside Magazine Best Trips of a Lifetime
Backpacking Baffin Island: This 12-day, 70-mile trek passes through the rolling hills, rivers, and summer tundra of Baffin Island's Auyuittuq (translation: "The Land That Never Melts") National Park, established in August 2000. This is Arctic Canada at its best: a northern landscape blooming with purple mountain saxifrage, moss campion, and mountain avens. Glacierdraped peaks form granite faces like the one on 5,495-foot Mount Thor, and you can spend a day front-pointing on Turner Glacier. Or just look for eider ducks, gyrfalcons, and arctic foxes from your camp. Read More
OUTFITTER: Equinox Wilderness Expeditions, 604-222-1219, equinoxexpeditions.com;
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2007 Rafting through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
We were four men and six women, unacquainted and geographically disparate when we met in Fairbanks, Alaska. During this trip late last summer, we had coalesced into a compatible and cooperative crew of willing adventurers on a journey with outfitter Equinox Wilderness Expeditions (www.equinoxexpeditions.com). Jettmar, a veteran guide, author and advocate for preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, took the lead.
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2007 A Land Vast and Wild
"This is a place that can change people's lives,"Karen Jettmar, of Equinox Wilderness Expeditions, said. "It's that feeling of freedom that you can't find anywhere else."
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2007 New York Times Political Conflict Over Drilling in Arctic Refuge
The coastal plain of this vast wilderness area is home to a few hundred Eskimos, herds of caribou and musk oxen, vegetation hardy enough to survive the harsh Arctic climate - and what may be the largest untapped oil reserve in the United States.
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2007 Budget Travel - You Go, Girls!
Chill Out Up North Several times a year, Equinox Wilderness Expeditions hosts women-only adventures in Alaska and British Columbia. Owner Karen Jettmar guides many of th
e trips. The company offers some coed trips, but the women-only expeditions keep gaining in popularity. "I felt very safe, which is always a major concern when you're in the backcountry," says Ira Nicolai, 41, of Vancouver. "The guides took care of the group really well." 604/222-1219, equinoxexpeditions.com, from $550 for the Whistler snowshoeing tour, which includes three nights in a chalet, all meals and park fees, and transportation to and from Vancouver.
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2005 National Geographic The ANWR Drilling Debate
"People want to see the refuge before it changes," says Karen Jettmar, the director of Equinox Wilderness Expeditions who takes around a hundred people to the contested "1002 area" every summer. Though the area proposed for development will only cover 1.5 million acres of the 19-million-acre refuge, Jettmar says drilling in this area will forever change the experience of being there. "At the edge of the mounta
ins, you can look out and see for a hundred miles. If there's anything out there that's man-made, it will completely destroy the wilderness experience."
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2005 Specter Haunting AK-The New York Review of Books
We were at the headwaters of the Nigu River, in a valley on the north-facing slopes of the Brooks Range that an outfitter later told us was the most remote part of all Alaska. In the twenty-four-hour sunlight, the snow pack around us was melting off the mountainsides, and water was pouring from the tundra. The caribou herds were returning from their forest wintering grounds closely trailed by predatory wolves and grizzlies.
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2005 Grist UW Program on the Environment
FAIRBANKS and AICHILIK RIVER, Alaska. The Alaskan part of the trip begins at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, when we arrive at the Fairbanks Airport. We are met by Karen Jettmar, who owns and runs Equinox Expeditions, our guide company.
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2005 Climate Change is Affecting the Bears
As someone who's traveled in Alaska's wilderness since 1973, working as a backcountry ranger in six of Alaska's national parks, leading trips in the Brooks Range since 1981, and running my own wilderness expedition company, Equinox Wilderness Expeditions, (http://equinoxexpeditions.com) for more than 20 years, I've run into lots of bears--at least a few hundred--and I have never--not once, felt a need to raise a gun to kill a bear.
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2003 New York Times Traversing the Arctic
Several companies organize guided expeditions into the refuge. Equinox Wilderness Expeditions (equinoxexpeditions.com) arranges rafting trips along the rivers north of the Brooks Range.
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2002 Travels in the Arctic Refuge
Special thanks to Equinox Wilderness Expeditions of Anchorage, AK, for making this trip possible. Their guide services and extensive knowledge of the Refuge's and Alaska's wilderness, particularly from an environmentalist and naturalist perspective are, in my opinion, without equal.
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2001 Wilderness or Wasteland: Report from the Field
Many made this wilderness experience possible for me. To Marlin and Michael of 3 Hats Internet-- thanks for tracking my one earth adventure. To Mark of Ocens -- thanks for connecting us to Globalstar. To Louis and
the tech guys at Globalstar -- thanks for your patience and support. To Andy at Latitude 38 -- thanks for fetching all the information.
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2001 Equinox Wilderness Expeditions, Frommer's Review
Karen Jettmar, author of The Alaska River Guide, the standard guidebook on floating Alaska's rivers, leads challenging rafting, sea kayaking, and hiking trips and base-camp wildlife viewing each summer in some of the wildest and most exotic places around the state.
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