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Brooks Range is the northernmost set of mountains in Alaska. As our lands are being swallowed up, the Arctic regions of Alaska can still offer the outdoor experience of what is truly the "Last Frontier." The majestic "Brooks Range" and their rivers provide exceptional backpacking, canoeing, river rafting, kayaking, floating, wildlife viewing, photography, fishing, gold panning, and climbing. We provide complete outfitting and full transportation. Jay and Judy Jespersen are carrying on that excellence in "bush flying". Pilot and owner, Jay, has spent thousands of hours flying the Brooks Range. The staff of experienced pilots will share their knowledge of the remote area to assist you with planning your wilderness trip. Whether you are paddling the remote rivers or backpacking into the backcountry wilderness, or watching the "Caribou Migration", we will help with your trip from the beginning logistics to the final flight home. No comfort, no security, no invention, no brilliant thought which the modern world has to offer can provide half the elation of the days spent in the little-explored, uninhabited world of the "Arctic Wilderness". Its beauty is still untouched and we can assist you in planning the trip of your life. Brooks Range Aviation is on the cutting edge in providing efficient and safe operation. We offer competitive prices and services available into the Arctic Region of Alaska. The fact that the Arctic Region is a hard place to get to, and even harder to get around in, is its saving grace. We will assist you in your complete planning for the adventure of a lifetime. The Arctic regions of Alaska can still offer the experience of what is truly the "Last Frontier". The beauty of the Arctic is still virtually untouched. Congress recognized the Brooks Range setting aside 8.4 million acres and naming it "Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve". The size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined, Gates of the Arctic is the second-largest unit in our national park system, yet few Americans have even heard of it and still fewer have been there. The Arctic sun scribes a low arc, never climbing much higher than the horizon, creating a spectral glow above the valley. The Alatna, like most big rivers in the Brooks Range, flows fast but has no terrifying rapids. The absence of trails makes hiking this terrain a labor-intensive endeavor. Traveling by water makes it downright cushy. The higher you ascend, the primeval landscape of the country resembles the phantasmal scenery of an epic Tolkien novel. This northern environment is easy to damage and slow to heal. Some Arctic lichens grow less than a sixteenth of an inch annually. For millennia, Athapaskan and Nunamiut hunter-gatherers lived and traveled throughout the Brooks Range. The Brooks Range is such a seductive place to visit, not in spite of the hardships but because of them. If you plan to see it on foot, by air, or drifting down an Arctic stream, we can assist you in planning your trip.There are only two narrow dirt roads into an unbroken swath of wilderness that stretches from the Chukchi Sea to the border of Canadas Yukon Territory. Getting into the Brooks Range requires some ingenuity and a float plane since the area is far from any airstrip. So why go to the considerable effort of trekking into the Brooks Range? Because you will find the finest mountain terrain in North America, a wonderland of glacier carved granite and pristine rivers and lakes, all within the remote wilderness of the Alaskan Arctic Region.
