I hope you aren't going to try this solo.

The lake is 40k long, up to 9.7k wide and as much as 290m deep. Soloing a raft on a lake like that is a way to die.

Even tandeming with a sea kayak is going to be rough, unless you're experienced.

>>2860957
Yes I'm going solo. For the rafting part I intend to stick close to the shore.

I don't know your experience level but the thought of solo rafting a lake that size gives me the chills.

I've been canoeing since elementary school, almost 50 now. Plenty of class 2 and 3 whitewater as well as longer lake and portage trips in the Northwoods. That includes trips of over 80 combined miles of paddling and hiking with gear. I have only minimal experience with inflatables and maybe that colors my opinion. Nonetheless, I would not go out on open water like that in an inflatable for anything but a calm, sunny day laugh.

Any wind will control where you go. Even if you are rowing it will be a battle to go where you want to go unless the wind is in your favor and not blowing too hard.

Maybe you have a lot of open water inflatable experience that contradicts my assessment. However, if you don't have that experience and you just want to try this trip and know that hauling an appropriate boat over a glacier is beyond your abilities then consider that a raft is not optimal for any sort of long distance, open water crossing that isn't intentionally wind powered...bringing up the question of sailing experience and equipment that would have to be hauled over the ice.

I don't look forward to reading about the search for your body a week after the raft was found.

>>2860967
Yes I have used a packraft on large open lakes before. I am not concerned about it at all. I suspect you underestimate the quality of good modern packrafts.

>>2860971
nigga you finsta die

>>2860971

Looks like an epic adventure.

I can only hope that someone will place a small pine cross, with your name branded across it, near to the location where your body washed upon the shore.

>>2860886
I would do a shakedown first, go up crows pass and then out Eklutna lake. It's shorter but has a few rugged sections. Paddling on open water isnt very fun.

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>>2860984
I'm pretty set on the icefield. Been up there before for a shorter trip and have wanted to go back and do a long traverse.

>Paddling on open water isnt very fun.

I don't mind it. If it gets too windy I just pull over to the shore and camp.

>>2861013
nigga you finsta die

Why would you want to hike across the icefield?

>>2861105
Ski, and because it is fun.

>>2860886
Anyone giving you shit about the open water in this thread hasn't done anything like this IRL. I have done trips similar and looked at this exact trip when I was living in Seward. The crux here is traveling down to and executing the dismount at the toe of the Tustamena. If you can get off early and sidehill that may be your best option before it gets choppy (pic semi related). If you can get a view from the air that would be ideal.

>>2861157
Yeah getting off the glacier to the lake will be the crux of the trip. I will bring a rope and some ice screws to do some V-thread rappels if necessary.

I would be waaaaayy more worried about crossing that glacier solo than the raft.

bruh. is op dead??

>>2862034
I'm not doing this now. The lake is frozen. I will do this in June.

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how do you not fall in crevasses while on glaciers

>>2862046
The danger is pretty low for the majority of the trip as the main icefield is very flat with significant snow cover. Crevasse danger will be the highest near the lower part of the Tustumena glacier leading into the lake. I'm not very concerned about it though.

>>2862046
Go around them. They're not that big of an issue unless you're in some crazy ice field.