Barr Party Booking for Columbia Glacier Tour
All Ages! • 8-10 Hours • Level: Beginner • Our most popular tour!
About
Offering the best paddling, wildlife, and ice in Alaska, this trip is the reason you visit the Last Frontier!
The Columbia Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in Prince William Sound. Since the early 1980’s it has been retreating catastrophically from its terminal moraine, leaving a 12+ mile long iceberg-littered fjord in its wake, creating one of the most rapidly changing glacier-scapes on earth.
On this kayak day tour, we strive for the upper reaches of Columbia Bay, where we paddle among the wildest, most impressive scenery around. Our most popular tour! Our famous Columbia Day Tour that for decades operated amongst the icebergs at the outer terminal moraine now vies for Upper Columbia Bay and the thunderous amphitheater where the glacier's various faces spill into the sea.
Paddle around ancient, freshly calved ice and land on newborn beaches. With massive tide swings and ever-changing calving rates, every day is different in the Columbia Glacier zone.
Please note, the time spent paddling can vary, depending on how much wildlife we encounter and slow down for along the way while on board the water taxi.
This tour is offered most days of the summer, but please try and sign up in advance, as there are times we do fully book!
We use our own USCG inspected water taxis for all regularly scheduled trips.
What's included
A fun day exploring!
What to bring
For all of our tours, the key is to avoid wearing cotton. You’ll also want to bring an extra layer, just in case. Synthetic materials or wool are the best options.
We supply rain gear (both tops and bottoms), rubber duckie boots, pogies (which are neoprene paddle gloves), dry bags, and everything you need to sea kayak, including pfd’s, sprayskirts, sea kayaks and paddles. We also serve hot drinks and trail-mix/pretzel snacks on all day tours other than Duck Flats and rafting.
Things you’ll want to bring (no cotton!):
- Lunch
- Water
- Long pants
- Lightweight shirt
- Medium/heavy weight polypro sweatshirt/fleece
- Some kind of warm, wind-cutting outer layer that can go underneath a rain coat in the rain
- Warm socks (wool or polypro)
- Your preferred warm gloves and/or liners (more for the boat ride and/or time spent on shore)
- Warm hat (or rain hat if you have one!)
- Sun glasses
- Sun screen
- Camera
- Binoculars
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