BITE25 - An Expedition Across Alaska's Bagley Ice Field (LIVE TRACKING)

Beginning August 24, 2025 expeditioners Kyle Sprenger and Jacob “Val” Myers will attempt to complete what they believe is the first summertime traverse of the Bagley Ice Field — The world’s second largest extrapolar ice sheet. The expedition, a journey which has been built from the ground up from the two guides’ multiple years in the field, has been dubbed the Bagley Ice Traverse Expedition, or BITE25. Along the way they will be hiking with pulks on their backs, cramponing across glacial moraines, skiing along the body of the Bagley, and then finally rafting out to the Pacific Ocean before picking their way into the small fishing village of Yakutat.

The journey is fully unsupported and is primarily a ski expedition as classified by the Polar Expedition Classification Scheme (PECS). All in all they aspire to cover about 260 miles and will be navigating surface hazards such as crevassing, meltwater rivers, avalanche terrain, and glacial calving.

Sprenger and Myers are aiming to embrace a journey full of novelty and establish a precedent upon which future summertime expeditions in the range may flourish, all the while observing ongoing glacial recession. The Yakutat Glacier, which is where the aquatic element of the expedition begins, has receded over three miles in both men’s lifetimes.

For contact post-expedition, Kyle Sprenger can be reached at Kyle_Sprenger@yahoo.com, and Val at Myers.JacobG@gmail.com.