Katmai
Park
7-Day Bear Viewing
Adventure Having appeared in magazines and films around the
world, Katmai's brown bears are renowned Alaskan icons. The world's largest
run of sockeye salmon up the Naknek River creates an ideal feast for brown
bears - attracting more than 2,000 of the bruins to the lands of Katmai
National Park and Preserve. This is one of the world's premier brown bear
viewing trips.
Your Ididaride Dog Mushing adventure begins with a two-mile dog sled ride. Feel the power, excitement, and energy of our amazing sled dogs as they are harnessed to our comfortable wheeled sleds. The intrigue of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, also known as Alaska's Super bowl, comes alive as you mush through the Alaskan wilderness to the base of Resurrection Mountain and along Box Canyon Creek. Your Iditarod veteran guide will thrill and excite you with stories from the trail as you experience the raw power of 13 Iditarod sled dogs.
Upon return to the kennel, tour the Seavey's family kennel facilities, laugh as a guest is dressed up as an Iditarod musher, and cuddle adorable husky puppies. Your guides are all Iditarod racers, and offer a delightfully humorous, behind-the-scenes look at the Seavey family's training for the most demanding race on earth. Guaranteed to be one of the highlights of your vacation, this tour was chosen as one of Alaska's Top Twenty Attractions, and is a must-do for all visitors to the Greatland.
Getting To Seward Seward is located 125 miles south of Anchorage. You can reach Seward by road or Backcountry Safaris would be happy to add bus or transportation on the Alaska Railroad to Seward as well as overnight lodging in Seward with your Ididaride Dog Mushing Tour. We also offer a number of other tours in Seward.
Sled Dog Tour Highlights
Alaska's most exciting summer ride
Six Iditarod mushers
Cuddle Adorable puppies
Meet a legendary Iditarod lead dog named Tread
View Iditarod Photo galleries
View the best splashes and crashes from Iditarod footage
Safe and comfortable for everyone
Gift shop with Alaska and mushing souvenirs
2007 Tour Rates
Tour Departure Times 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m.
Ididaride Dog Mushing – Cost adult $59 / child $29 Prices are subject to change without notice.
WHEN YOU'RE READY TO GO!Fill out the secure on-line reservation form or call our office at (907) 222-1632 or toll-free (877) 812-2159. Reservation requires a 50% deposit. We accept payment by VISA/MasterCard. You will receive a pre-trip packet detailing the itinerary of the tour you have chosen and an equipment list. (Reservation and Payment Terms)
Last minute reservations may be available so don't hesitate to contact us. If a trip has space, we can get you on it.
Limitations of liability:
Although every precaution is taken to safeguard you and your belongings, our adventure trips involve inherent risks and dangers which are beyond our control and Backcountry Safaris shall assume no responsibility for personal injuries or deaths and loss of personal property. We highly recommend that you consider purchasing travel insurance. Travel insurance coverage can help with expenses for the unforeseeable such as lost baggage trip delays, emergency evacuation, and cancellation due to illness.
We use independent contractors to supply Backcountry Safaris with various services on many of our adventures. Some trips require us to use independent tour guides, drivers, lodges and hotels, air and water taxis, and other suppliers. Because we do not own, operate, manage, control, or supervise these suppliers, we cannot be liable for any acts or omissions on their part, including any negligence, gross negligence, or reckless or willful acts. Backcountry Safaris assumes no responsibility for any injury, loss, damage, delay, or death to person or property arising from the negligent or willful act or failure to act of any person who is to or does provide goods or services for this trip or for the action or inaction of any other third party. Without limitation, Backcountry Safaris is not responsible for acts of God, equipment failures, vehicle or vessel accidents, illness from food or otherwise, annoyance, delays, failure of any means of conveyance to arrive or depart as scheduled, and changes in transit or hotel and lodge services over which it has no control. We make occasional changes in trip itineraries for the comfort and well being of our guests. We will keep you informed of any necessary changes in a timely fashion.
On payment of your deposit to Backcountry Safaris, you agree to be bound by the above terms and conditions.
Alaska Adventure Travel Specialist Backcountry Safaris P.O. Box 231121 • Anchorage, Alaska USA 99523 1-907-222-1632 or toll-free 1-877-812-2159
Official Alaska State Sport Dog mushing. It was once a primary form of transportation in many areas of Alaska. Adopted by the Alaska Legislature in 1972.
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Iditarod Sled Dog Race It has been called the “Last Great Race on Earth” From Anchorage to Nome each team of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher cover over 1150 miles in 10 to 17 days. The Iditarod Trail, now a National Historic Trail, had its beginnings as a mail and supply route from the coastal towns of Seward. The Iditarod race is a commemoration of the life saving serum run in 1925. Part of Iditarod Trail became a life saving highway used by mushers and hard working dogs for the Diphtheria stricken Nome.
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Togo The most well known sled dog is Balto who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome. Alaskans fondly remember Togo however, who led the longest and most hazardous stretch of the same serum run. Balto got the statute in Central Park however and most of the fame.
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Dog Mushing Mushing as a sport enjoyed mostly in North America and northern Europe. It's great winter exercise, both for the mushers and their dogs. Races like the Iditarod get the attention but there are many recreational mushers who enjoy pulling a sled into their winter cabins. Before the widespread adoption of snow machines, dog teams were often used to haul wood and freight and dog team mail routes were common in Alaska at one time. The mushing community also includes skijoring (often with just one dog) and weight pulling and some people use a pulk or cart instead of a sled behind their dogs.
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Over 4000 Years Sled dogs have coexisted and cooperated in partnership with humans for many thousands of years in the northern regions of North America and Siberia. Archeological evidence puts the earliest date at over 4,000 years ago.
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Nome Web Cam City of Nome's Webcam Is here! It looks over the Visitor Center and out to Norton Sound, part of the Bering Sea.
Your Ididaride Dog Mushing adventure begins with a two-mile dog sled ride. Feel the power, excitement, and energy of our amazing sled dogs as they are harnessed to our comfortable wheeled sleds. The intrigue of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, also known as Alaska's Super bowl, comes alive as you mush through the Alaskan wilderness to the base of Resurrection Mountain and along Box Canyon Creek. Your Iditarod veteran guide will thrill and excite you with stories from the trail as you experience the raw power of 13 Iditarod sled dogs.
Seward is located 125 miles south of Anchorage. You can reach Seward by road or Backcountry Safaris would be happy to add bus or transportation on the 
