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Barela's Alaskan Outfitters

Welcome to Barela's Alaskan Outfitters

When hunting with Barela’s Alaskan Outfitters, experience and knowledge that the owner and operator Peter Barela provides, in his fourth decade of guiding experience, in Alaska and hunting throughout the world Peter's hunter achieves success! Peter's guiding operation is known to be world class. Their client's dreams of fulfilling a successful Alaskan Adventure and Big Game hunt are the reason for Peter's decades of success and return clientele.

Barela’s Alaskan Outfitters Area of Operation

Barela’s Alaskan Outfitters permit area is located in the Tongass National Forest under a federal concession. The highest density of the rare Glacier Blue Bear has been known to be in this hunting area, along with an abundant amount of Giant Brown bears and Giant Black bears. A majority of our Brown bears make Boone & Crocket as well as other hunting publications. We operate the rest of the year on 55,000 acres of private lands. Nestled against the Wrangell Mountains, on the edge of the Wrangell's St Elias National Park, this is as breathtaking of landscape as can be found on any of Alaska’s coastline. Since this area hasn't been commercially hunted since 2007, Mountain Goats, Brown Bears and moose are amazing animals due to being so remote, and bordering the untouched national park, which has provided our hunters the opportunity to pursue Boone & Crocket animals. Our other hunting areas are Native lands.

Alaskan Wilderness Hunting Adventure

You are in “no man’s land” this is the “Bush of Alaska” During our hunts for Mountain Goat, you may encounter both Brown and Black Bears; therefore, we recommend having all the appropriate hunting licensure. Mountain Goat Hunting will be a test of your strength and endurance. You will have to be in good shape because you will be climbing up 500 feet to possibly 2,200 feet for a successful hunt.

There is a very small topographical and ecosystem area where these unique and rare animals live, and we are blessed as this is where Barela’s Alaskan Outfitters operates.

Moose Hunting is worth it as our team sends our hunters home with racks typically over 60" and the Brown Bears will be on the salmon rivers and make for an exciting spot and stalk hunting experience; they are excellent combo hunts for big game.

Bear Hunting

Mountain Goat Hunting

Moose Hunting

Nice Start to 2025 ~ Our Hunters are Amazing!

They are literally Killing Bears that will be in the Record Books!

Mo Morris

Don't Take Our Word for Being One of the BEST Alaskan Outfitters
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Mo Morris 2025 Brown/Black Bears Testimonial Monster: 9'8" with a 28 1/8" skull, One of only Nine bears Ever Recorded over 28 inches in Southeast Alaska!

From the moment you step onto the boat at the Yakutat harbor, the adventure with Barela Alaskan Outfitter begins in unforgettable fashion. Watching massive sections of the glacier crash into the sea while cruising past awe-struck cruise ship passengers — who clearly envy your rugged adventure — is a memory I’ll never forget. After settling in, it’s off to the island to start glassing for bear. You start seeing bears, slowly at first, then in growing numbers. The anticipation builds. After several stalks that didn’t pan out, our luck turned.

My highly motivated and passionate guide, Hunter, spotted a true giant known as “The Beach Boss.” After a painstaking stalk along the beachline, we thought we lost him but using a predator call Hunter was able to draw him out of the brush and we got him at just 30 yards. He was a monster: 9'8" with a 28 1/8" skull — one of only nine bears ever recorded over 28 inches Southeast Alaska! The entire experience is the definition of wild, remote, and real. An extraordinary team of experienced guides, untouched Alaskan wilderness, and a hunt you’ll remember for a lifetime. As Pete says, “Come with a positive mindset and adventure in your heart” — and you’ll leave with stories that few in the world can match. Thanks Pete, Mo Morris! **See full story, in "MORE" Tab under testimonials.

Barela’s Alaskan Outfitters offers Top Quality Trophy hunts for the serious and professional hunters. I have Years of successful hunts with decades of flying in Alaska’s wilderness and decades of hunting boots on the ground = I know where to place the hunters for the highest of success rates!

Matt Serwa

2025 Brown Bear Bow Hunter Matt Serwa's Testimonial

Thank you to the legendary Pete Barela and Barela's Alaskan Outfitters and his incredible team for a memory of a lifetime. thank you for your hard work. I can't wait to come back! Flying around glaciers, sleeping in the bush, chasing big bears. What an adventure. Alaska never disappoints. Even though I she can be brutal, I love it very much! God Bless!

Dirk Dieterich's Testimonial 2024 Brown Bear Hunt

The hunt was a true Alaskan adventure, the kind you read about in books!

Hunting with Peter and crew culminating with harvest made for a lifetime hunt!

I have also wanted to up my game and book a spot & stalk type Brown Bear hunt in Alaska! I booked a hunt with old friend Peter Barela to his new camp out of Yakutat, Alaska. A 12-day hunt based out of the only permitted camp in the Tongass National Forest accessible via a fascinating boat journey through the glacial calving waters surrounding the world’s largest tidewater glacier. With the limitations of a longbow the odds of success were limited at best. Most days we would spot 5-10 boars, on day 6 we spotted a large sow, after about an hour a large boar appeared, as he approached, I released, and the arrow hit him in the front left elbow, I nocked another arrow and hit him where I aimed. The bear let out a loud roar and did a back flip over the rock and was gone. In my 40+ years of bowhunting I had never taken a head-on shot and certainly not the largest carnivore on this continent. I looked at Peter and I with a big smile and said, “dead bear”!

I can’t even explain the sense of relief that I felt.

The bear measured a little over 9 feet.The hunt was a true Alaskan adventure, Time with Peter and his crew made for a lifetime hunt! **See full story, in "MORE" Tab under testimonials.

Lee Treichak, 2023 Brown Bear As an adventure bow hunter, I can say hunting with Peter Barela / Barela's Alaskan Outfitters is the ultimate Alaskan adventure.

Spring 2023, I hunted with Peter and his crew near Yakutat AK, for coastal Brown Bear. It is a primitive, remote camp. Conditions are as tough and as real as Alaska has to offer. Barela outfitters provide exquisite hunting opportunities, not lodging excursions. As a former biologist with the Colorado division of wildlife, I can assure you that Peter is targeting the most game rich environments that Alaska has to offer. The astonishing number of bears that we encountered on a daily basis was staggering. Numerous stalks and ample opportunities are what bow hunters dream of, Peter provides. I was fortunate enough to punch my tag and stamp the record books with a bruiser bruin on day 5 of 12. At a distance of 12 feet, my arrow struck its mark, and we celebrated the bow hunting accomplishment of my life, harvesting a 26 8/16" Alaskan Brown Bear. Peter and Barela outfitters, for this I thank you immensely. Cheers, Lee Treichak *See full story, in "MORE" Tab under testimonials.