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Alaska Hiking ToursGreen Soles Adventure Club

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IntroductionPopular hiking tourLength: 5 days in late July5 hiking trails of various advanced difficultyStart from downtown JuneauSpectacular sceneryAbundant wildlife

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Day 1: Granite Creek• Downtown Juneau starting point • Perseverance Trail is historical trail• Originally used by natives for goat

hunting, fishing or berry picking• Became first road in Alaska• Joe Juneau and Richard Harris found gold in Silverbow

Basin in 1880s• Attractions include • Old mining ruins, wildflowers, view of Ebner Falls

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Day 1: Granite Creek• Granite Creek Trail• 2 miles from start of Perseverance Trail• Short but very steep to the peak• Attractions include• Wildflowers, alpine lakes,

waterfalls, ice flow from Mendenhall glacier

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Day 2: Mount Roberts• Start from downtown• Summit is 4.5 miles• Restaurant and tramway at

1,760 feet

• Attractions include• Wildlife such as eagles, ravens,

grouse, marmots, mountain goats, bears, Sitka black tail deer• Rainforest and sub-alpine meadows• Trees with totem carvings that depict Native legends• Mountain views of Glacier Bay, Alaska panhandle, and

Admiralty Island National Monument

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Day 3: Mount Juneau• Start from Perseverance Trail• Short but very steep trail to peak• Goes up from Granite Creek

• Attractions include• Panoramic views of Juneau,

Gastineau Channel, Taku Inlet, Lynn Canal• Rainforest

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Day 4: Mt. McGinnis• Start from downtown Juneau• Use West Glacier trail• Located in heart of Tongass National Forest

• Attractions include• Mendenhall Glacier, Mount

Wrather, Stroller White• Rainforest

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Day 5: Mt. Jumbo• Start from downtown• Also known as Mt. Bradley• Part of Tongass National Forest

• Attractions include• View of Gastineau Channel,

Stephens Passage, Icy Straits• Eagles, ravens, chickadee and

black bears• Spruce forests, muskeg meadows

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Alaska Hiking TrailsDay Trail Name Total

Miles Elevation Time to Complete

1 Granite Creek 3.5 700 1.5 Hours

2 Mount Roberts* 4-9 3816 5-7 Hours

3 Mount Juneau 9 3576 7-8 Hours

4 Mt. McGinnis 5.5 3200 8-9 Hours

5 Mt. Jumbo 5 3500 7-8 Hours

* If you only go to elevation 1760 where the tramway is, it is 4 miles.

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New Member Ratings

5 4 3 2 1

Granite Creek 15 3 2

Mount Roberts 12 4 3 1

Mount Juneau 16 4

Mt. McGinnis 13 4 3

Mt. Jumbo 12 6 2

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New Member Ratings

Granite CreekMount RobertsMount JuneauMt. McGinnisMt. Jumbo

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Hiking in nature’s

wonderlandat its best!

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For more resources:• We used the following sites in our research prior

to booking with Tolano• http://alaskatrekker.com/juneautrails.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneau,_Alaska• http://

www.mountainzone.com/mountains/list-mountains.asp?cid=1023