Tentative Trip Itinerary

Date	Number of Days	Location and Notes
9 March	3	Leave STL to Boonville, Missouri
	2	Drive to Salt Lake City
	7	Ski Snowbird, etc (we have never skied the resorts around Salt Lake)
	2	Moab
	4	Arches National Park hikes
	1	float Colorado
	10	Canyonlands hike 4 sections
	4	Lake Powell
	6	Grand Canyon hike to north rim from south
	3	Vegas
	3	Death Valley
	3	Mojave National Preserve (largest Joshua Tree forest)
	3	Joshua Tree
	2	Los Angeles
	3	Channel Islands (canoe and camp)
	10	Sequoia and Redwoods and Yosemite
		Yosemite Half Dome opens 28 May (cable put up)
	4	Ski Mammoth and Heavenly (4 July closing date)
	2	Crater Lake
	2	Mt. Bachelor
	4	Mt. St. Helen’s
	3	Seattle (note: Seattle to Anchorage is 48 hrs 2300 miles)
	3	Olympic National Park
	3	Vancouver
25 May	2	Ski Whistler 25 May closing day
	14	Ski Backcountry and drive to Alaska
	7	Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Alaska (7hrs 310 miles to Fairbanks)
	2	Fairbanks
20 June	3	Arctic Circle (20 June is longest day of the year -summer solstice- sun doesn't set north of arctic circle)
	10	Denali (see Mt. McKinley)
		Ski Alyeska Resort (Closes 29 May??)
	3	Anchorage (note:  Anchorage is 6.5 hrs 360 miles from Fairbanks)
	2	Exit Glacier (Exit Glacier is a road accessible Glacier)
	7	Kenai
	5	Seward, Alaska (2.5 hrs 130 miles from Anchorage—lots of biking rental)
	10	Jasper National Park Canada
	10	Banff Canada
	10	Glacier National Park
		Drive home – Yellowstone, etc.????
	172	Total Days
	5.6	Number of Months