Few backpackers find themselves in the Revelations for a variety of reasons: the Revs are not located in a National Park or National Forest (although they are certainly stunning enough to warrant federal protection) and therefore receive very little publicity, the weather at this western end of the Alaska Range is notoriously terrible - often leading to delays getting into or out of the Range, and the Revs are located 140 air miles from Anchorage and there are relatively few landing strips or large lakes making access to this region very expensive. Despite all of those deterrents, the Revelation Mountains are totally worth visiting, they are unequivocally one of the most spectacular backpacking destinations in AK.