Glacier Bear LLC was started to facilitate back country hiking, camping, and sea kayaking trips to Glacier Bay Alaska. We realize not everyone has an opportunity or the experience to organize a trip like this on their own so we make it more attainable by providing this service at an affordable price. By organizing the trip for you, we take the unknown out of the equation. A veteran of nineteen trips to Glacier Bay, Brian White is a certified and experienced wilderness guide.
Brian has led student groups sea kayaking through the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska for the past four years, guiding the groups through the Beardsley Islands and Muir Inlet for a total of 120 miles over a period of ten days.
Our Mission
To provide an affordable guide service for students, outdoor enthusiasts, or anyone seeking a once in a lifetime experience of natural beauty and inner peace.
Brian White
Brian White is a naturalist, outdoor enthusiast and certified wilderness guide. A retired high school science teacher, Brian is a veteran of eighteen (18) trips to the Alaska Wilderness, a hiker of 400 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, and a certified ice climber from the Summit of Mount Rainier Ice Climbing School located in Washington State.
Brian has led student groups sea kayaking through the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska for the past four years, guiding the groups through the Beardsley Islands and Muir Inlet for a total of 120 miles over a ten day period. During the trip were grizzly sightings, as well as humpback whales and orcas.
Brian has also led groups on sea kayaking/camping expeditions to Acadia National Park in Maine with twelve students, Lake Champlain, Vermont with nine students and two trips to Chincoteague, Virginia with a total of nineteen students.
Hiking Achievements
- Certified summit of Mt. Rainier ice climbing school in Washington State
- 400 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail
- The entire Presidential Range of the White Mountains in New Hampshire in one day (19.2 miles), including Mt. Madison, Mt. Adams, Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Clay, Mt. Washington, Mt. Monroe, Mt. Franklin, Mt. Eisen
- Twenty nine summits of Mt. Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire with a total of 341 students
- Hiked /climbed Knife’s Edge, 5,270 feet Mt. Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine
- Summits in Oregon: Middle Sister (10,047 ft.), South Sister(10,358 ft.), Mt. Thielsen (9,182 ft). The South Sister was accomplished with seven inexperienced students
- Summit Mt. Adams, Washington State (12,280 ft)
I know many people who have invested in a cruise to Alaska, but other than the limited land excursions they offer, most people will never have the opportunity to see the last frontier as I will show it to them. Each time I go, I leave feeling refreshed and renewed in contemplation of this vast wilderness.”
—Brian White (Owner and Wilderness Guide)
