We arrived in Fairbanks and organised a camping to stay overnight.
The next day we pursue our journey to the top of the Americas-Prudhoe Bay. The Dalton High way travels 500 miles being 414 in gravel, through the most remote land accessible by road in Alaska. Paralleling the trans-Alaska Pipeline System from Livengood, the high way crosses the Yukon River, Arctic Circle, and Brooks Mountains Range on its way to Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
The trans Alaska pipeline System(800 miles of pipeline) was designed and constructed to move oil from North slope of Alaska to the northern most ice free port in Valdez, Alaska.
The next day we pursue our journey to the top of the Americas-Prudhoe Bay. The Dalton High way travels 500 miles being 414 in gravel, through the most remote land accessible by road in Alaska. Paralleling the trans-Alaska Pipeline System from Livengood, the high way crosses the Yukon River, Arctic Circle, and Brooks Mountains Range on its way to Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
The trans Alaska pipeline System(800 miles of pipeline) was designed and constructed to move oil from North slope of Alaska to the northern most ice free port in Valdez, Alaska.
We arrived at 3pm and decide to stay overnight at cold foot, better, no other option. We just organized our camping (which was free) and went to sleep by the way it was only 3pm, it was a bit cold .The mosquitoes nearly killed us; I haven’t seen something like that before in my entire life. We thought that cold foot was a city but had only one bar, a post office and hotel.
We spoke to the locals ( bar owner)and he explained that we were going to Prudhoe Bay; he explained that we had to carry some petrol with us because the next petrol station was only on black horse 250 miles away.
Funny enough we woke up around 10pm thinking that it was day already, however was night but with sunshine. We decide to carry on with our journey in direction to Prudhoe Bay. We had to curry extra gallon of gasoline plus our luggage, just them I realised that I had too much weight. We were so stupid that we curried our entire luggage with us to Prudhoe Bay, never came to my mind to leave most of it in Fairbanks, only when we started riding in gravel road that we started thinking we should do, we even thought in hiding luggage. On the end we decide to curry the whole weight and riding 1000miles with the whole weight, anyway no other choice.
During our trip we met two guys, we started riding with them but they were riding far too fast for us. I thought that with we break down we could ask them for help but after few miles we decided to let then go, was far too dangerous.
loving the flip flops... lol !! :-D
ReplyDeleteim very jealous sitting here in the BCCP office in Chelsea !! :-(
looks like you guys are having F-U-N... keep up the good blogging... looking forward to more !!!! :-)
Brian :-]