![]() ![]() That is after driving 2,000 miles northward from where we spent the winter and spring near Los Angeles, California. ![]() Today we made it to the official start of the Alaska Highway, Mile Zero, at Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Milepost 2040 Cache Creek to Dawson Creek, British Columbia adventure Alaska Highway boondocking Bucket List Canadian Rockies Climb a Mountain life on the road RV living RV travel the open road Yukon Territory I’ll add photos as soon as I return to digital civilization. It assaulted me back, but I have lived to tell about it, and tell about it I will. I’ll be writing much more about this epic adventure in subsequent posts, but I want to say right here that, even though I didn’t entirely know what I was getting into, I do not regret my decision to assault the Alaska Highway with a pickup and an RV. We entered the RV with caution at every rest stop to push things back into their places in the cupboards and re-organize the stuff in the fridge. I suspect that funding is the big problem as there was a marked difference in the quality when we crossed into Alaska which is a rich petroleum state.Īnyway, the frost heaves have rendered the pavement a mess of dips and ridges and mounds that have turned the highway into an off-roader’s dream. Boondocking in alaska how to#The Canadian engineers either haven’t learned yet how to design roads that will not be heaved by the permafrost every winter and summer, or they don’t have the money to do it right. Our trek through the Yukon was an episode that deserves its own coverage, but let me quickly say that the roads there are terrible. It seemed we spent an entire day in second gear as the pickup labored up the steep climbs to Summit Pass only to be followed closely by the decline that required many miles of engine braking in order to save the brakes. ![]() Our adventure threshold was crossed several times into the area of anxiety. These mountains are beautiful from a distance, but up close they are intimidating. We developed a new respect for the Rockies here. That is, when we weren’t working our way over some steep high pass or through a narrow canyon. I guess wifi is a bit much to ask for when there isn’t even an electrical power grid in place.įor hundreds of miles we traveled along the foot of the Canadian mountain ranges. Every village and lodge north of Fort Nelson has to generate its own electricity. Boondocking in alaska generator#Further, several of the RV parks we stayed at were so far from the electrical grid that they were operating on their own power plants, so we could hear the faint hum of the generator all night. I have made few blog posts along the way because I didn’t have access to the internet. We are heading on to Fairbanks tomorrow and then to our final goal, Denali Park where our kids live and work every summer. But nobody stops and stays in Delta Junction it’s just an intersection on the way to several other more distant destinations. Well, we have traveled the official distance of the Alaska Highway which covers 1,488 miles between Dawson Creek, BC and Delta Junction in Alaska. Milepost 3395 Fort Nelson, Yukon, to Delta Junction Alaska ![]()
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