Adventures Outdoors: Plan and Book a trip with Open Leaf Excursions

Experience the thrill of driving your own team of huskies through the heart of the Alaska Range.

Trips available March 26th – 30th 2012 (with travel on March 25th and 31st)
and April 2nd – 6th 2012 (with travel on April 1st and 7th)

$3500 for an individual, $3000 each for a double booking.

Join Mike and his Iditarod team on an exclusive trip. Begin your
adventure at our kennel where you will meet all the dogs. Spend the next 4 days
mushing your own team with Mike as a guide.

Highlights
Chance to see Mt McKinley

Great wildlife sightings including moose and caribou

Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Meet the dogs at the kennel. Learn how to harness the dogs and how to drive a sled. Practice driving your team. Get to know your guide Mike and hear stories of his adventures on the trail.

Day 2: Begin your four-day mushing trip. Travel 27 miles with your dogs. Camp out with your team of dogs. Watch for the northern lights and listen to your huskies howl.

Day 3: On the trail to Big Susitna River. Spend the night at Alpine Creek Lodge. Enjoy first class accommodations in the wilderness of the Alaska Range.

Day 4: Mush back to Brushkana. Another camp out with your dogs. Enjoy mushing tales around the campfire.

Day 5: Mush home to the Den. Enjoy an evening of tales as you and your dogs enjoy the comforts of the kennel.

Included in your trip:

6 nights of accommodations (3 at the kennel, 2 in an arctic oven tent, and 1 at Alpine Creek Lodge) http://www.alpinecreeklodge.com/

All meals during the trip (6 breakfasts, 6 lunches and 5 dinners)

4 days of mushing your own team through the Alaska Range

1 day of sled training at the kennel including a short training run

Cold weather gear

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Alaska in late March early April.  tons of snow, mild winter temps, 14 hours of daylight.  Lots of wildlife, moose, caribou, etc, views of Denali possible on the drive from Anchorage and back to Anchorage, as well on our last day of mushing.

There is an inherit need forguests to be in decent shape, and perhaps have some basic camping skills, but trips are designed to share our lifestyle and love of sled dogs with dog lovers, fans of sled dogs sports, and people who have the romantic desire to see a little bit of Alaska from the runners behind a dog team.  We can accommodate almost all ages, children 12 and up with a parent.  and we have taught active seniors well into their sixties how to mush.  What our trips are not.  They are not hair raising, adrenaline rushing, extreme trips.