Anyone hunt with Unguided Alaska/Arctic Air this year?

[Magnum Sherpa]

I paid a deposit on a transporter hunt with Unguided Alaska for caribou in September of 2025. Has anyone hunted with them this season? I understand that mid-season they changed their base from Kotzebue to Fairbanks. I’ve read a few less than encouraging trip reports on other forums regarding this season. It seems they were very overbooked and the communication between the pilots and owner wasn’t the greatest. I don’t know if I have any options anyway since my deposit was not refundable. I’m just trying to figure out what I might be getting myself into.

 

[beardbuster]

I paid a deposit on a transporter hunt with Unguided Alaska for caribou in September of 2025. Has anyone hunted with them this season? I understand that mid-season they changed their base from Kotzebue to Fairbanks. I’ve read a few less than encouraging trip reports on other forums regarding this season. It seems they were very overbooked and the communication between the pilots and owner wasn’t the greatest. I don’t know if I have any options anyway since my deposit was not refundable. I’m just trying to figure out what I might be getting myself into.

I would be very curious as well. We booked this same trip before the closure and have been pushed to next year. Based on what I have seen I am considering backing out.

 

[Magnum Sherpa]

I would be very curious as well. We booked this same trip before the closure and have been pushed to next year. Based on what I have seen I am considering backing out.

I contacted Russ with Outdoors International (the booking agent we used for the hunt) and he said they are making decisions for 2025 and will be emailing all of the booked hunters this month. If I could get my 50% deposit back I would probably do so and give up on this hunt. The reports I read were not encouraging.

 

[Gellar]

One of our sheriff deputies had a caribou hunt booked but the outfitter bailed on him and won’t give back any deposits. I’ll ask him who it was next time I see him.