Customize your wilderness raft trip to lengths from 1.5 hours to 6-hours of float time and incorporate your trip with an overnight stay or multi-day adventure which includes alpine and glacier hiking!
The Tsirku River is a swift multi channeled glacier river, which contains only one short section of class two/three rapids above the confluence of DeBlondeau Glacier Creek. Above the confluence the valley is only accessible by helicopter and that phase of our raft adventure is described in the helicopter portage section of our text. The majority of our raft trips originate at Nugget Creek; or, with an airboat shuttle, from DeBlondeau Glacier, where we can explore the glacier and iceberg filled lake at the terminus of the glacier. Guests can opt to overnight at our rustic comfortable cabin located at the base of the glacier.
After we depart the stark beauty of the primordial land of glaciers in the upper valley, our rafts silently float by a series of beautiful waterfalls while we witness the succession of flora and fauna that transform the lower valley to a lush old growth evergreen and coniferous forest. It is here that we begin to see an ever-increasing number of eagles along with and occasional grizzly bear, black bear, moose or wolf. On this extended raft trip we float through the heart of the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, where we normally see from 20 – 60 eagles feeding on migrating sockeye salmon.