RE: ALASKA do it yourself?
Don't know anything about the drive in option. Several years ago, a friend and I visited a buddy of ours that worked for a flight seeing helicoptor service. He got us hooked up with Illiamna Air Taxi service and the three of us did a do it yourself moose hunt. I won't get into all the details, although the lake we were supposed to drop into was way too rough to land in, so we eventually set down in a lake that was in the transistion area of tundra/mountain range. We wern't really in moose country or caribou country. We did see some of each of the different species...and several grizzlies. I passed a small bull moose the first morning, and never saw a bull within range after that. We did see several caribou, some of which were okay bulls, but I had two at home from Quebec that were big and our tags could be used for either moose or caribou, so I let them go. When we circled the lake we were to originally be dropped into, we saw two different "huge" bull moose and when we circled the last time and had to leave the area, I could have cried (well not really). The one was welllllll into the 60 inch range and clean from velvet, the other still had remnants of velvet and was in the high 50's close to 60.
What an awesome trip it was though. Like I said we saw grizzlies (one very close and long blonde/gold hair..beautiful animal) and much more abundant wildlife. An the auroa borelais the one evening was just absolutely spectacular. From horizon to horizon, there was almost every color you could imagine.
Again, it was quite a few years ago, but the outfit again was Illiamina Air Taxi service and they took us in and out and flew over a few times throughout the week to check on us.