Alaska Homestead Adventures

Name: Alaska Homestead Adventures
Address: Fairbanks, AK, US
Telephone: +12485680345
Price range: $$$
Rating: 5

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Alaska Homestead Adventures

Private all-inclusive dogsledding & winter adventures based at a hand-built wilderness homestead.
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11/19/2024

The river ice locked up a few days ago. While its nice to anticipate traveling on the solid ice, flowing ice sure makes for some spectacular frost.

11/12/2024

Getting swept up in making little brooms, a thing I learned in a great class with this fall. Nice to have something on these lengthening nights.

11/10/2024

It sure is pretty this morning!

11/06/2024

35 miles of slushy river between us and our polling place. We're grateful for the ability to vote by mail. Thanks to everyone who is making the time to go and vote in person too, it's not too late Alaska!

11/04/2024

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On a three-day Alaskan adventure, my son and I went snowshoeing, dogsledding, and hunting. Here's what it was like.

11/03/2024

Stuffed animal birthday- because mama does need more excuses to make a cake.

11/03/2024

Running dog faces are the best.

11/01/2024

Yep that's dogs pulling a snowmachine- an early season adaptation to our steep trail down to the river. Dogs were pleased, no snowmachines were harmed.

10/31/2024

Hobbit and Kathul with today's ice report.

10/27/2024

The dogs enjoy watching the "ice show" on the river as much as we do. 1-year-old Flame is here to deliver today's ice report.

06/06/2024

We've been on a social media break enjoying the early moments with our new family member, Juniper, here are some pictures of her. New joys, New challenges, a lot of gratitude.

03/06/2024

Skylodge guest cabin getting ready for some visitors. This is a larger version of our original cabin built a few years ago by our friends Gerrid and Christine.

cabin

03/04/2024

Sheet pan Wild Alaskan Salmon Nicoise, a new favorite dinner this year. The purple things are purple potatoes!

02/28/2024

Heading out to drill some holes for ice fishing!

02/25/2024

Our guests this week made birch bark baskets, we love how they turned out!

02/20/2024

The swing from -45 to +45 really did a number on our ice lanterns! Enjoying the ones that are still around.

02/12/2024

Pupdate pics- Flame, Bodie, and Ember are nearly 4.5 months old and looking more like dogs every day. We also got to spend a few days with their brother Orion (last pic) who is huge! Mama Kathul is back to her full weight and winter coat and pulling a sled like a champion. Celia is now about half the weight of the biggest pups and looks forward to when she can run "her little puppies" as a team.

02/05/2024

Puppies get goodnight stories, of course they do!

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Fairbanks, AK

Telephone

+12485680345

Website

http://www.alaskahomesteadadventures.com/

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Videos

Finally- some fresh snow! Dogs love it just as much as we do. #snowday #snow #mushing #dogsledding

10 minutes without food in the feeder and the redpoll army expands their reach into our ice lanterns! #redpolls #alaskabirds #winterbirds #alaskahomestead

That low-angle light of early winter is just delicious on the wide-open River. #dogsledtour #fairbanksdogsledding #fairbanksalaska #dogsledvacation #alaskadogsledding

Some Yukon-style jumble ice on the Tanana River between Fairbanks and Nenana this year. #ice #jumbleice #tananariver #dogsledding #alaskahomestead

View from our tag sled. That solstice-time light is just delicious. #alaskamushing #dogsledtour #dogsledvacation

Freezing temps but little snow = ice skating potential! We checked out this spot along our winter mushing trails. Not ready yet but good training for this future skater! #fairbanksalaska #ice-skating #ice #iceicebaby

Scenic snowshoe tours- one of the many options we offer as part of our all-inclusive wilderness getaway trips. We've still got a few spots left December 20-30 and are offering a 10% off special this month! Message us for more information. #explorefairbanks #travelalaska #ecotour #snowshoe #snowshoetour #wildernesslodge #wintervacation #alaskavacation #alaskawintervacations #fairbanksalaska

Dogsledding in December light is really special. We want more people to experience it! This week we're offering 10% off trips booked for December 15-30 2022. Email us for details :) Www.alaskahomesteadadventures.com

Most years we wait until the last possible second to get our boats out of the water, floating frozen motors through ice pans and pulling them up by hand. This year we got lucky. #freezeup #fairbanksalaska #alaskahomestead #fall chores #portablewinch

Check off that "parenting" thing off the to-do list. She's got this very important life skill down! She even knows it is more efficient to take from mom's bucket! #berrybaby #saskatoon #berrypicking #alaskahomestead #huntgathergrow #proudmama

David is getting REALLY fast at cutting fish :) There are probably hundreds of ways to cut a fish, but this is our favorite. The knife is called a tlaabaas, it's an Athabascan design that we made based on some of Riba DeWilde's family's knives. #fishcutting #sheefish #tananariver #traditionaltools #alaskahomestead #huntgathergrow #subsistence

Breakup drama. #tananariver #springbreakup

Shortcuts

Sharing the magic of winter travel by dogsled since 2014

David and Jenna lived across a creek from each other in Fairbanks’s Goldstream Valley for two years, but they lived there in opposite seasons so they never met. For two summers, every day Jenna would walk by David’s cabin and cross a log bridge to her “treehouse” dwelling. For two autumns, David would return to his cabin in the fall just after Jenna lugged the last of her belongings across the bridge to rent a cabin with enclosed walls for the winter. One day, their meddlesome landlord got the spunky idea to set them up. They paddled the creek together after breakup but had to part ways as David headed 800 miles downriver to work a season as a fisheries technician near the Mouth of the Yukon, while Jenna headed 200 miles north on a month-long canoe trip on the Colville. David got home in September, cut down the tree pictured below, made Jenna a paddle, and together they hitchhiked 370 miles to Eagle, Alaska, canoed 160 miles to Circle, Alaska, and hitched back home. They have been partners ever since.

Through the years, they have struggled to find a way to balance living the subsistence lifestyle they love, supporting themselves financially, and a desire to share their passion with others. Spending long hours on the trail they began to envision a merging of their passions- outdoor fun, subsistence lifestyle, and sharing with others. There were lots of tourist opportunities in Alaska, but most seemed like shallow impersonations, scratching the surface of what this vast and diverse state is really about. Boreal Journeys is an attempt to take visitors to a deeper, more authentic experience of Alaska, one that is not centered solely on sublime landscapes and plastic accouterments, but rather the real products, people, and lifeways that make our lives in the north rich and meaningful.