Hidden Alaska Guides & Outfitters

Mike "Buck" Bowden started guiding in 1974, and worked his way up through the ranks to the status of Master Guide, where he holds license #M-80.

Along the way he has been a trapper, a homesteader, a horse packer, and a river rafter. He is a Commercial Instrument Multi-Engine pilot, and in his former career as an Alaska Fish and Wildlife Officer, became a certified commercial diver. He owns a lodge and several cabins and outbuildings, which he built with from logs he fell on a remote parcel of land deep in the western Alaska Range.

The lodge offers excellent bear hunting, while remote tent camps and float hunts offer great opportunities for moose, bear, sheep and caribou.