In 2007, owner Dan Oberlatz and longtime client Mark Stevens (a man who this year took his 13th consecutive trip with AAA) completed a 55-mile traverse of the remote and rugged Neacola Mountains, deep in the inner sanctum of Lake Clark National Park. Their route took them from the astonishingly breathtaking Turquoise Lake and north to the remote and rarely visited Two Lakes. Rather than choosing the path of least resistance by following the tundra country on west side of the rugged Neacolas, they instead chose to go east and into the glaciated gut of the range. Their route took them across 30+ miles of glacier ice, over 4 high glacier passes, down polished granite slabs, up miles of loose talus and moraine, across braided glacier rivers, through thickets of dense green alder, and along ancient bear trails to the shores of Two Lakes.

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