Alaskan Adventure Tours

note: The following reviews predate the numeric rating system and are not included in this outfitter's overall rating.

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outfitter review submitted by: Jim Noon on Jan 8 2010

Species Hunted: Brown Bear

Game Quality: N/A

Accommodation Quality: N/A

Camp Condition: N/A

Food Quality: N/A

Guide Experience: N/A

Other Personal Experience: N/A

Overall Impression: N/A

Recommend: No

Reviewer Comments: Received an email a week prior to hunt that he was out of business. Stuck me and my friends for the cost of the Hunt. Have been reading about his legal woes. Sounds like we were just 3 of many that got screwed. Hope he never ends up in the business again.

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outfitter review submitted by: Ernie Lommatsch on Apr 19 2008

Species Hunted: Goat

Game Quality: Good

Accommodation Quality: Tent/sleep on ground

Camp Condition: average

Food Quality: Freeze dried-mountain house

Guide Experience: Poor

Other Personal Experience: Good to Poor

Overall Impression: Dangerous Climbing

Recommend: Never

Reviewer Comments: I had a Goat and Brown Bear Tags. Never saw a bear. Hiked (Full Pack, personal gear,+ food) and climbed to the spike camp in 1.5 days. Very dangerous exposure on the climb up.. Guide had never been up this mountain and had never hunted goat before. As a once Park Service Ranger (trained in climbing) I assisted the way using ropes, making anchors, and a secondary safety rope. The outfitter/owner had never been up this mountain. I knew it would be tough climbing to get to goat country. Technical climbing with dangerous exposure should not of been part of the hunt. The guide had no technical climbing training. I was ONLY one of two hunters that made it up the mountain to hunt goat in a 12 week season of guided hunts, and the only successful person to tag a goat all season. Of the other 7 hunters that week,hunting for Brown Bear and Moose, no one saw either,except "one little bear hardly big enough to cover your toilet seat!" Darren Byler(owner)was in the main camp the first day and flew back to stay on his boat for the week. No one ever saw him again!!!! There was no water filtration/purification during the hunt.

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outfitter review submitted by: Mike Jones on Jun 19 2007

Species Hunted: Black Bear

Game Quality: Excellent

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Excellent

Food Quality: SUPER!!

Guide Experience: Zack was OUTSTANDING!

Other Personal Experience: Excellent

Overall Impression: Great Hunt!

Recommend: YES

Reviewer Comments: Wonderful hunt! I have been on other guided black bear hunts, and this one was by far the BEST!!!!

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outfitter review submitted by: Russell on Nov 24 2006

Species Hunted: Black Bear

Game Quality: OK

Accommodation Quality: fair

Camp Condition: fair

Food Quality: poor

Guide Experience: unacceptable

Other Personal Experience: unacceptable

Overall Impression: Truly horrible

Recommend: under NO circumstances

Reviewer Comments: Simply put...the worst hunt I've ever been on. The "guide" was a clueless teenager with a bad attitude. When at their "lodge", the guests stay in filthy little shacks, while the camp employees stay in a nice, heated building with TVs, hot water, etc. The staff are borderline rude, and talk exclusively among themselves, treating the "guests" as unwanted intruders. A really, really bad atmosphere. Creepy, really. If they paid *me* to go back I would decline the offer. You have been warned.

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outfitter review submitted by: Chef Sean on Oct 7 2006

Species Hunted: Black Bear

Game Quality: Good

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: Fair

Guide Experience: Darren is good

Other Personal Experience: Good

Overall Impression: Good

Recommend: Only for real hunters, not a c

Reviewer Comments: Guide worked hard, and felt safe in a dangerous territory. Felt like if we got into weather or trouble Darren could take care of it.

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outfitter review submitted by: Danny Ellis on Aug 22 2006

Species Hunted: Mountain Goat

Game Quality: good

Accommodation Quality: fair

Camp Condition: good

Food Quality: good

Guide Experience: poor

Other Personal Experience: poor

Overall Impression: terrible

Recommend: never

Reviewer Comments: I have hunted all over North America with many different outfitters. This guy is without a doubt the absolute worst because of his attitude.

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outfitter review submitted by: Paul on Jun 20 2006

Species Hunted: black bear

Game Quality: decent

Accommodation Quality: good

Camp Condition: good

Food Quality: good but rushed to eat

Guide Experience: young

Other Personal Experience: ?

Overall Impression: lame

Recommend: no

Reviewer Comments: Was not the hunt anybody in my group expected. The outfitter was more interested on working on his boat then making sure his clients were happy. I brought this to his attention and he told me that "I see it all the time nobody is ever happy until they kill a bear", that should say something about the hunt. I have been on other hunts that everybody was at least having fun during the hunt and if you kill something the just made it that much better. Darren musty realize that his hunt is not fun ulsess you kill something. That seems to be his attitude and for me I thinks thats wrong that why I would not recommend him and why I am going to try to spread the word!!!

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outfitter review submitted by: Danny Ellis on Sep 28 2005

Species Hunted: Mountain Goat

Game Quality: Fair

Accommodation Quality: Fair to Poor

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: Good

Guide Experience: Poor

Other Personal Experience: N/A

Overall Impression: Poor

Recommend: No

Reviewer Comments: I expected a tough hunt from a physical standpoint and that was not a problem. Four of us were hunting and there was only one guide who had ever been goat hunting before. What was advertised and delivered were not one and the same. Mr. Byler was totally insensitive to any requests we made and the atmosphere was very unpleasant. I take several guided hunts per year and have seen the good and the bad. This was the worst I have ever experienced.

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