Flattop Mountain Daily SCHedule

Check-in Window

Noon to 12:15.  Van departs between 12:20 and at 12:30.

Check-in at Downtown Bicycle Rental ("DBR") pay, sign hike release, and pick-up/read handout/directions "How to Hike Flattop." 

To bide your time before we leave, we suggest you take the glass elevator across the street to the top of floor of the parking garage. There are great views from up there and you can see Flattop. Be back at bike rental no later than 12:20. Another option to bide time is to view the free 1964 Earthquake exhibit inside the blue mall where our store is located.

12:25 - 12:30

Late Check-in/Wait List Trigger

and Departure

Between 12:20 and 12:25 if someone who reserved a seat hasn't shown up someone on the wait list can take it or the van will leave.

Also, if less than seven people have signed up, those that are here can discuss whether to split the $161 cost we need to run the shuttle. So, six people - $26, five - $32, If there are four or less people then we introduce the four hikers to one another and explain how if they split a cab they can go for the same price as what they would have paid us.

Departure

  departs DBR between 12:25 and 12:40.

1:05 to 1:20

Arrive Trailhead

Van arrives at Glen Alps in Chugach State Park. Elevation: 2,200 feet. Click here for live web cam shots of Flattop and the parking lot.

About 1:15 - 4:00

HIKING Time

Van remains parked at trailhead. Driver does his own hike. Everyone meets back at van at or before 4 pm.

4:00

Leave Trailhead

  departs taking a different return route back to make a circuit tour of the city.

4:30

Arrive Downtown

Van arrives @ DBR. Flattop t-shirts for sale at our store. Free water refills.

If after hiking you decide to rent a bike you'll save $2. We call this the HIKE/BIKE SPLIT.

If you rented a bike prior to going on the hike, you receive a $2 discount on the shuttle price which would make it $21.  This is the BIKE/HIKE SPLIT.