Hiking in Alaska With Kierre Childers

Kierre Childers (00:00)
A big kind of motivator for starting a business was also feeling like tourism in Alaska, we do such a good job ⁓ of giving visitors these grand experiences.

and sometimes we forget that the locals that live here don’t always get access to those experiences. And so I really wanted ⁓ I really wanted a company that also gave back to the community.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (00:32)
This episode I’m speaking with Kierre Childers.

Kierre speaks about what it’s like to hike in Alaska and also what inspired her to start her company, Revel Treks and Tours, five years ago. So let’s get into it.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (00:42)
Hello, Kierre, thank you for joining me today. I can’t wait to talk to you about hiking in Alaska. How are you doing today?

Kierre Childers (00:50)
Good, yeah, really good. Winter hasn’t quite arrived here, so we’re in the brace for that, but I’m enjoying the prolonged fall.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (00:59)
That’s nice. Yeah. And we just had the time change. So obviously that affects you. What time does the sun set where you are?

Kierre Childers (01:06)
So we, gosh, I want to say last night at set before 5.30. ⁓ It’s not bad, but we’re losing about five minutes of light a day. So like come Thanksgiving, you’re like, whoa, we are feeling it.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (01:12)
Okay, that’s not bad. No.

And

where are you in Alaska? Where are you located?

Kierre Childers (01:26)
So I’m based in Palmer, Alaska, which is about if you know where Anchorage is, we’re about an hour north of Anchorage.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (01:33)
Mm-hmm.

Okay, okay.

So are you in the mountains of Alaska or is it still a little bit more of the flat-ish area?

Kierre Childers (01:45)
Yeah,

so Palmer sits in, ⁓ I love Palmer, because Palmer sits in a big glacial valley. ⁓ we actually sit between two mountain ranges, but where I am in town is flat. But I can like look out my window and see mountains in any direction,

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (01:52)
Okay.

Nice, okay.

Now, are you from Alaska originally?

Kierre Childers (02:05)
I’m not. yeah, I grew up in Indiana, actually. So not too far from you or you’re at these days. And, and I came to Alaska about 10 years ago. So I came up to a volunteer on a trail crew in Willow, which is even further North and then just kind of fell in love. ⁓ so yeah, so this is right around year 10 now and depending on who you ask. So Alaska has the jargon in Alaska. You’re either a chichaco or a sourdough.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (02:12)
Yeah, yeah.

Kierre Childers (02:35)
So if you’re at Chichaco, you’re like new to Alaska and you haven’t really like earned your street cred. And if you’re a long time you’re sourdough and depending on who you ask, I’ve reached sourdough status because I’ve made it through 10 winters, but some people still like, she’s in Chichaco.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (02:40)
Okay.

Do they

do they give out like pins for that so you can like put it like like I’m a sourdough now Don’t mess with me

Kierre Childers (02:53)
No,

think no they don’t but that’s a great idea although I feel like if anybody had to advertise sourdough like you feel like

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (03:05)
that’s true,

then you’re probably not a sourdough yet.

Kierre Childers (03:09)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (03:12)
love that though. Where

my parents live, there’s a lot of ⁓ transplants there too. they call them wash ashores because they live on an island. So they’re like, they’ve been washed ashore.

Kierre Childers (03:21)
Wow! my gosh!

That’s great.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (03:26)
Yeah, my parents were a washer shore, but now they’ve been there 20 years. So I think they, they count their sour doughs equivalent. Yeah.

Kierre Childers (03:30)
Okay.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (03:34)
so you obviously are an active hiker. Is that something that you did growing up to? you do Indiana? Actually, like the Midwest has surprisingly a lot of great hiking.

Kierre Childers (03:44)
It does. I didn’t know about any of them growing up in Indiana. So like as an adult, I come back and I’m like, my gosh, there’s this beautiful trail. Like, why did we not ever come here when I was a kid? ⁓ Yeah. So I would say we weren’t like a hiking family at all, but we were, we loved to be outside. So I grew up, my mom volunteered in a park, not far from where my, house was in town and my dad would take us mushroom hunting, you know, in spring. Yeah. So I, I,

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (04:10)
That sounds fun.

Kierre Childers (04:14)
I’d like to say that that really instilled the love of outdoors and then ⁓ that just kind of evolved in young adulthood.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (04:21)
I kinda wanna hear more about the mushroom hunting.

Kierre Childers (04:23)
What the mushrooms?

I mean, nothing crazy. Morels, you know, we would go hunting for morels if you know what those are. But yeah, we just, you know, putz around the woods. It’s such a nice way to spend time outside, like foraging. ⁓ And that has definitely carried over in Alaska. It’s a very foraging heavy ⁓ state because there’s so much here to harvest. But ⁓ yeah, it’s great to just like have a kind of like a mission, you know.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (04:30)
Yeah, yeah, that’s so fun!

Mm-hmm.

Kierre Childers (04:53)
for something when you’re outside,

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (04:54)
I always like pointing out when I don’t point out, but I, we find the different fungus along along the way. And I like it because I just think they’re just so unique looking half the time. You know, some of them so colorful and you’re like, what is that? You’re like, ⁓ that’s, you know, chicken of the forest. Like, OK.

Kierre Childers (05:04)
my gosh. Yeah.

Yeah,

not I’m definitely not a mushroom expert, but I have gone out with folks who know way more than me and that I always appreciate because you’re just like, how like this is this like a lifetime of learning to to know all of these things? Like, I have a hard enough time with berries in Alaska, let alone throwing in mushrooms and other stuff. So yeah.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (05:31)
What?

It is interesting the information that people accumulate in their brain. feel like you know you look like little filing cabinet back there.

Kierre Childers (05:42)
Yeah, yeah, my filing

cabin is not very organized. Yeah, totally.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (05:46)
No, neither is mine. Sometimes I’m like, hold on, like I’m looking, I’m looking, I can find it, I swear. So

you own a guiding company in Alaska. Can you tell me a little bit about it and what you offer people who come to you?

Kierre Childers (06:03)
Yeah, so I own it’s called Revel Treks and tours so Revel with a V as in Victor ⁓ And we were based in Palmer We do like privately guided day trips around the area and then we also do small group Packages and we’ll do custom trips, but I’d say all of our stuff is pretty active so this is we’re going into the fifth year of the business

And yeah, most of what we do involves some sort of outdoor activity, but I have noticed the longer that the business has been here. You know, when we first started, it was like back country trips, like camping a tent for five days and not everybody wants to experience Alaska like that. So we have shifted to do more ⁓ kind of educational stuff. So we have like some farm tours that we do.

We do some history focused stuff, but it really is all, I’d say whether you’re hiking or learning something, just is, the trips are designed to connect you to where you are in Alaska, which I think is so important. So if you’re out for out on a trail, we want to give you a geology lesson and talk about the glaciers. And if we visit a farm, we want you to meet a farmer and have them talk about, you know, what makes farming challenging in Alaska. ⁓ and so, yeah, so that’s kind of the, I would say the nature of what we do.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (07:25)
And you said you started that five years ago?

Kierre Childers (07:28)
Let’s see, this is the end of year four, so 2026 will be year five. Yeah.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (07:34)
Okay, very cool. And what made you decide to start this company?

Kierre Childers (07:38)
Yeah, so I ⁓ had been guiding in Denali and I really ⁓ like I feel like my the whole time I’ve been in Alaska, I’ve spent, you know, a lot of time outdoors here and just like developed my skills. I had guided previously before coming up here and other places and thought like, man, I like I just love being outside. It’s so cool. But guiding in Denali was incredible because

you’re in this beautiful place, you get to share the mountains with people. mean, like, my gosh. I knew I really loved, I loved connecting people to that, but I was really struggling living in Denali. So the year-round population there is really small. Like I want to say 300 people year-round. There lots of people.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (08:09)
Yeah. I can’t even imagine.

Wow, okay. I wouldn’t think it

to be that small, yeah.

Kierre Childers (08:32)
it’s small. then there’s like an influx of people in the summer during high tourism season because we need all this infrastructure. But then when, when that season’s over, you know, you’ve got really like eight months of very quiet ⁓ solitude. And it was just after three years up there, I thought, man, I don’t know if I, if this is where I want my home to be. And so that was part of what one was like pulling me to come back to Palmer because I had lived here before.

⁓ And then I knew I liked guiding. I knew I liked bringing people together. ⁓

A big kind of motivator for starting a business was also feeling like tourism in Alaska, we do such a good job ⁓ of giving visitors these grand experiences. And people come here because it’s their bucket list trip. they want to see all the best that Alaska has to offer.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (09:24)
Mm-hmm.

Kierre Childers (09:30)
We spend so much energy on giving that and sometimes we forget that the locals that live here don’t always get access to those experiences. And so I really wanted ⁓ I really wanted a company that also gave back to the community.

And I wasn’t sure what that would look like when I started. But it’s what it is. What it has turned into is we do like community hikes. We have monthly ladies hikes. We have monthly seniors hikes. We do.

We’ve done backpacking courses. We’ve done, gosh, all kinds of classes, like how to dehydrate food. And those are all available to the community. that’s been pretty consistent since the beginning. yeah,

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (10:15)
love that you do so much for the community. I think that’s that’s excellent. Yeah. sometimes they are kind of like, put off to the side. You know, the the tourists come first. But no, it’s nice that the community has opportunities with you as well.

Kierre Childers (10:18)
Thanks.

I think people that live in Alaska, everyone assumes we all know how to do the things. Like, because we’re here and the longer that I have lived here, the more people are like, I’d love to do that, but I don’t have people to go with or I’d love to do that. I’ve never gone, I’ve never carried a backpack before. So I think that’s been really ⁓ cool just to see that that

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (10:32)
Mm, yeah.

Kierre Childers (10:50)
locals are appreciative of those kinds of experiences.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (10:54)
Now, in addition to the community and the locals that you work with, are a lot of the other clients that you have, are they lot of like first time visitors to Alaska or do you get a mix?

Kierre Childers (11:04)
We get a mix. ⁓ would say most folks that come up on our visitor trips are first time visitors and then a handful every summer of repeats. There’s, yeah, could name probably on two hands folks that have come back ⁓ multiple times and do like other hikes with us. I’m like, my gosh, this is great.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (11:25)
That’s nice. Well,

that’s like a great reference right there. You know that you’re doing your job right when people are coming back. ⁓

Kierre Childers (11:30)
Yeah.

Yep. That’s a good sign. That’s yeah, for

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (11:37)
Now, what is it like hiking where you live?

What kind of

terrain are we dealing with? What kind of elevation are we dealing with?

Kierre Childers (11:44)
Yeah,

that’s such a hard question to answer. And I would say there are many options depending on what you want to do. So Palmer and that that’s really Alaska too, like the hiking here is so varied. when I talk about Palmer, totally different than if you were to go up to Denali, totally different if you go up to Fairbanks. ⁓ Yeah, which is which is great. Like if you love hiking, Alaska can offer so much because you can see so many different types of terrain where we are.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (11:50)
Okay.

yeah.

Kierre Childers (12:14)
Uh, so Palmer sits pretty close to sea level and then those two ranges around us. Um, so we have the two Gatch mountains to our South. So those are the mountains that people kind of consider Anchorage’s playground. Um, and they’re there. There’s some big mountains back there. lot of the front country trails, um, are like well-maintained, uh, kind of dirt trails. Although I think for folks coming from the lower 48, they feel rugged.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (12:19)
Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Kierre Childers (12:42)
For me, the Chugach trails are like, these are like some of the nicest trails in Alaska, but they can still feel rugged. And then ⁓ to the north of us, north of Palmer is the Talkeena Mountains. And those mountains, ⁓ there’s a big state park that’s very close to Palmer called Hatcher Pass. And Hatcher Pass has lots of trails. ⁓ And then within both of those,

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (12:42)
Okay.

Yeah ⁓

yes.

Kierre Childers (13:11)
ranges, you also have backcountry access. And so that’s where you’re getting into trailless wilderness and that for the most part, treeline is right around 3000 feet in this area. the peaks in this area go, I mean, I’ll say generalized, like four to 5000. And so you can climb and then get to tundra and then walking trailless is very easy because

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (13:24)
Okay.

Kierre Childers (13:39)
there’s no vegetation above 3000 feet. Yeah, yeah. I would say as a general rule of thumb, Alaskans don’t believe in switchbacks, which makes hiking like just a suffer fest usually to get above the trees. You’re just like, well, who built this trail? But yeah, but once you’re above tree line, it’s great. So yeah.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (13:41)
There’s nothing in your way.

Huh!

Yeah.

you were saying like, the trails are really rugged. And I’m like, kind of sounds like the Northeast. And then you’re saying there’s no switchbacks. I’m like, definitely the Northeast. if you hear people talk about hiking in like New Hampshire, I mean, it’s literally like straight up the mountain over rocks. You’re just climbing over boulders to get straight up the mountain. There’s no switchbacks. And then you’re at the top, yay.

Kierre Childers (14:21)
Yeah, yeah. Okay,

that’s awesome. Yeah, I haven’t done any hiking in the Northeast, but that’s pretty, that sounds very similar to Alaska.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (14:30)
Yeah, it feels like maybe they’re cousins. I don’t know.

So if you are a first time visitor to at least your region of Alaska, I know it’s a massive state, so you can’t cover all of that, but in the Palmer area and then the, you know, just the hiking nearby, what would you?

tell a first time visitor before heading out on the trail? What are some of the most important things for them to know? I’m thinking bears. Number one.

Kierre Childers (14:54)
Yeah, I would say…

Yeah, bears

are ⁓ definitely be bear prepared, ⁓ which can be really intimidating for for first time visitors if you’re not coming from bear country. ⁓ So we’re I’m a big fan of bear spray as a deterrent, which is like really strong pepper spray. ⁓ The thing that I have noticed with folks that visit is they don’t

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (15:04)
Yeah

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Kierre Childers (15:22)
If you need your bear spray, you’re going to need your bear spray. And so you need, you want it accessible, right? And so the number of times where I’ve been out hiking with folks and their bear spray is like in their water bottle pocket or in their backpack. And I’m like, it’s not going to do you any good if it’s back there. So, ⁓ yeah. So carry bear spray and there’s great resources online about how to use that. I mean, if you’re hiking on your own, there’s, there’s some really good, ⁓ resources just to get prepared on that front. ⁓ another thing.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (15:28)
Yes.

Yeah

Kierre Childers (15:50)
as far as Alaska goes is knowing, well, anticipating you might not have cell service. So bringing in reach or some sort of emergency communication device, not everywhere. I’d say we really have decent coverage, but if you’re doing longer hikes and going into the back country, then anticipating that you’re going to lose cell coverage is pretty important. and then

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (15:57)
That’s a good point, yeah.

Kierre Childers (16:15)
you know, for all your like 10 essentials, first aid layers, all that stuff is pretty critical for Alaska as well, just because of the mountains, our weather is really dynamic. I’ve been out over the course of the day and gone from like a 65 sunny day to a raining and 45 degree day, and then it might snow six inches that night if we’re tent camping. So just knowing that like, yes, anything’s possible and

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (16:38)
Yeah.

Kierre Childers (16:43)
That’s really probably the most common question we get is like, what should I pack? What should I wear? You know, for going out for a for our hike, what should I, what should I put in my pack? And like all of it, pack all your layers. Bring your rain jacket. it doesn’t look like it’s going to rain. I know. Just trust me. Bring it. If you don’t bring it, it will rain like it never fails. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. So I would say those are three, ⁓ three big things about, yeah. And those are applicable for here or other parts of the state.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (16:53)
You’re like, pack for four seasons.

It will rain.

Is there a best time of year? Speaking of like, you know, weather and whatnot, is our best time of year to hike in Alaska, at least where you are?

Kierre Childers (17:20)
Yeah, I have a really soft spot for hiking in September here. ⁓ If you further north, it can already be winter, but for Palmer specifically, ⁓ September hiking is incredible because the berry bushes are turning red on the mountains and then the aspen trees and the birch trees are all turning yellow. So we don’t have like a Midwest or Northeast kind of fall colors explosion, but we have

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (17:39)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Kierre Childers (17:49)
subtle colors I would say and yeah it’s really pretty so that’s I think September is pretty epic.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (17:51)
It sounds beautiful.

Would you say like, is Labor Day like, Labor Day like a good time or like later in September or it doesn’t really matter?

Kierre Childers (18:02)
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Yeah, I would say Labor Day into mid-September is really great. If folks are coming up to do lots of things, then getting into mid-September can be tough because Denali pretty much closes around mid-September. ⁓ And so I think when to come would depend on how much you want to do while you’re here. But for Palmer specifically, between Labor Day and mid-September is really lovely.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (18:17)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

have you been pretty much hiking in Alaska all 10 years that you’ve been there

Kierre Childers (18:33)
I had been hiking before and spent, I would say hiking and backpacking probably now 15 years of, you know, experience around, around the world. But Alaska, yeah, definitely the last 10 years. So the trail crew stuff, that was a lot of hiking and hiking in with equipment to manage to work on trails.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (18:42)
Okay.

Kierre Childers (18:56)
And then after that, I had an office job for a bit, what was still hiking lots on the weekends and doing outside stuff. And then also accumulating like Alaska, the back country element of Alaska is very intimidating. And so I was also kind of scooping up certifications like, you know, wilderness first responder and my swift water and my, then my EMT, like trying to build confidence in the outdoors. so that also, thanks. Yeah. That’s also been a.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (19:20)
Very cool.

Kierre Childers (19:24)
10 year process, I would say. so, ⁓ yeah, I feel way, when I look back at where I was 10 years ago, it’s like, my gosh, you’ve come such a long way, so.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (19:35)
Were there any bad experiences, I’m going to say? Any hard lessons that you’ve learned on the trail?

Kierre Childers (19:41)
Yeah,

I think I don’t know if it was a bad lesson, but I think particularly with backcountry trips, there’s so many things out of your control. And that’s really Alaska does such a good job, whether you’re remote or on the highway of just kind of being like, ha ha ha, like, I know you had a plan, but that doesn’t work like that.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (19:52)
Mm-hmm.

hahahaha

Kierre Childers (20:08)
So some friends and I, did a big, it was like a, it was a big trip. It was a 60 mile gates of the Arctic trip. So that’s a national park up in Northern Alaska that’s fly in only or super remote. And it was like, we fly into a lake and then they were going to backpack and pack raft 60 miles away from at another lake to where and get picked up there in a week. And, you know, when you’re planning kind of remote stuff, you build.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (20:20)
yes, yes, I know what you’re talking about.

Kierre Childers (20:38)
You build how you think it’s going to go. And then you build alternate plans based on like contingency plans, I would say, and kind of assess your risk. And so we had, I felt like we went into it like, okay, we, have a good game plan if we need a plan B, if we need a plan C and we get there and, ⁓ like every. Yeah. Yeah. It ended up working out fine, but I think our takeaway was, man, we didn’t build in enough flexibility.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (20:57)
Did you need a plan D?

Kierre Childers (21:07)
for days where we just didn’t move as much as we thought we were going to. the, it was a mixed sport hiking and pack rafting, but every creek crossing that we thought we’d be able to hike across, we ended up needing to blow our boats up and cross. And so it just, yeah, so like we had estimated, we’ll cover, you know, six to seven miles days one, two, three.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (21:11)
Mm-hmm.

so that’s gonna take more time and…

Kierre Childers (21:29)
And we, there was a day we covered like three or four miles and we were just so defeated because the water was way higher than what we thought it was going to be. ⁓ and so that was a great lesson. The, what ended up being in our benefit was that because the water was high going in the boats, we were much faster than what we thought. But I think looking back on that trip, if I was going to plan it again, I’d probably put two buffer days that if we were moving slow or if.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (21:38)
Mm-hmm.

Kierre Childers (21:59)
Another thing that happened on that trip was we didn’t fly out ⁓ the day we thought we were going to. We ended up flying a day late because of weather. So all of those variables get amplified once you’re doing remote stuff. And so I think just building in flexibility ⁓ is really important.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (22:08)
Hmm.

do you have a favorite area in Alaska that you’ve hiked in? Is there one where you’re like, if someone’s going to come to the state, like, I mean, obviously the soft spot for your for your hometown.

So maybe that’s it, but if someone’s gonna come to the state and they’re like, I wanna do a good hike, you’re like, this is where you should go.

Kierre Childers (22:30)
Yeah.

Yeah, I would say I love Denali State Park. So Denali State Park is in the Talkeetna Mountains and it’s a huge state park that’s really just south of the National Park. But everybody comes to the National Park and you just, the way to see the mountain if you go that route is you get on a bus and you take the bus on the road. So it feels like you’re sitting, if you’re somebody that likes to be outdoors, Denali State Park is

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (22:41)
Okay.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Kierre Childers (23:06)
It’s phenomenal and you have the best view of the Alaska range, which is the range that Denali sits in. So you can see that. You can see all the other mountains in the Alaska range on a clear day. should put the asterisk there. Yeah. And you’re in Tundra and there’s blueberry. It’s just, it’s a magical spot. So yeah.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (23:20)
Yeah, it’s always yeah.

That sounds amazing. have found to that. mean, I’ve been to a couple of national parks and I’m not trying to downplay them. I mean, obviously they’re fantastic. But sometimes like the state parks really can just rival the national parks and they’re even better because they don’t have the crowds like like the national parks do.

Kierre Childers (23:45)
Yeah.

Yeah, I feel like that hits the nail on the head with Alaska. I mean, our national parks are incredible, but there are there’s areas that that ⁓ there’s even just like state land and borough land that you can get on and you’re like, this is amazing. And there’s nobody hardly here. Like,

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (23:53)
Of course, yes.

Yeah.

Like, do people not know about this? Like, good. Don’t tell anyone. But well, Kierre I really appreciate you taking the time just to sit here and talk to me about Alaska and hiking in Alaska ⁓ before you go.

Kierre Childers (24:08)
Yeah. ⁓

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (24:21)
you know I’d like to ask everyone if you had could only do one kind of hike for the rest of your life would it be a hike to a waterfall or hike to a view but I’m gonna put a little asterisk in there and be like if there’s an alpine lake that counts too or if there’s something else so tell me I guess if you could only do one hike kind of hike for the rest of your life what kind of hike would that be?

Kierre Childers (24:34)
⁓

Yeah, that’s such a good question. And the Alpine Lake is a curveball because we have some really beautiful lakes. I would say I’m going to stick with view, but I might add a view from a ridge. Like that is that’s my sweet spot in Alaska. Hiking is like to get a good ridge line and you can it’s like view all around. Those are those are my.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (24:57)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Kierre Childers (25:12)
favorite. ⁓

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (25:13)
That sounds incredible. I don’t think there’s any wrong answer. So I just like to hear everybody else’s because I like to hear everyone’s reasoning behind it. But I think

they’re all great and I could never choose. I don’t think.

Kierre Childers (25:25)
Yeah,

would be it. Hopefully I never have to, right?

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (25:28)
I know,

right? I know. ⁓ So if anyone wanted to come to Alaska and book a trip with you, where would they find you?

Kierre Childers (25:35)
our website, revel treks and tours.com is a great starting point that kind of breaks down all of our trip options and there’s, ⁓ you can always call or email us based on the contact information from there. So

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (25:47)
you so much for for taking the time. And I appreciate you sharing your knowledge about hiking in Alaska. And I’m kind of, you know, jealous of where you get to live. Now, as you get into the winter months, will you will it quiet down for you then? Like like you said in Denali, how it kind of got quiet? Is that the same for you guys? Are you still busy in the winter?

Kierre Childers (25:59)
Okay.

Thanks.

We’re still busy, we are the visitors, like visitors slow down for sure, but we really ramp up our stuff for locals. Yeah.

Lauren – Her Side Of The Trail (26:16)
Okay. With the local. Well, enjoy

that. And thanks again for being here. I appreciate it.

Kierre Childers (26:24)
Yeah, thanks Lauren, I appreciate it too.