 It has had an influence on American adventure racing, backcountry use of the packraft, and ultralight hiking is significant.In addition to the summer challenge, there is an even more low-key unaffiliated winter event, the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Ski Classic, which has taken place every year since 1987 with races through the Chugach Mountains, Alaska Range, Brooks Range, and Wrangell-St. Elias.Hope to Homer (Kenai Peninsula), 

Mentasta to Denali National Park (Alaska Range), 

Nabesna to McCarthy (Wrangell – Saint Elias Wilderness), 

Gates of the Arctic Wilderness (Brooks Range), 

Donnelly to McKinley Village (Alaska Range), 

Hope to Homer (Kenai Peninsula), 

Nabesna to McCarthy (Wrangell – Saint Elias Wilderness), 

Eureka to Talkeetna (Talkeetna Mountains), 

Chicken to Central (Tanana-Yukon Uplands), 

Gerstle River/Donnelly to McKinley Village (Alaska Range), 

Thompson Pass to Lakina River Bridge (Chugach Mountains, Wrangell – Saint Elias Wilderness), - 

Peters Hills to Red Shirt Lake via Rohn (Western Alaska Range, Susitna Valley), 

Galbraith Lake to Wiseman (Brooks Range), 

Cantwell to Sheep Mountain (Talkeetna Mountains),