the Dalton Highway

[MSCH]

originally the haul road for the Alaska Pipeline. Not recommended RV Road for the weak of heart. basically once north of Fox Alaska there are 2 places in 500 miles of road to buy overpriced fuel and limited food supplies... you can buy something at the Yukon |River Bridge and at a place called Coldfoot.

 

[MSCH]

Yukon River has the longest wood spanned bridge in North America.. fo

 

[MSCH]

Arctic Circle, just to say I been there.

 

[MSCH]

what most of the Dalton looks like... gravel or messed up pavement... steep grades and curves... nobody to save you if you screw up.

 

[MSCH]

Abandoned Yukon River Camp. its about midnight when we took these pics

 

[Wayne]

Now I know you are a good guy, you have a JD front license plate!

originally the haul road for the Alaska Pipeline.

More info on Wikipedia - interesting stuff!

Dalton Highway - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Not recommended RV Road for the weak of heart.

What would you say your average cruising speed was? Were there lots of trucks throwing gravel?

steep grades

Are those grades as steep as the look, or is this camera lens compression?

 

[MSCH]

my average cruising speed might have been 30...but there are plenty of places where you slow down to miss either the chuckholes or the rough spots.
The tractor trailers go faster, I guess because it isn't their equipment .

yeah, it is steep... Steepest road I have ever really travelled on that was a highway and not some little side road..
it is impressively steep on some sections, and they don't even have signs saying " HEY FELLA, WATCH OUT, THIS HILL IS 10 OR 12% "

 

[Wayne]

they don't even have signs saying " HEY FELLA, WATCH OUT, THIS HILL IS 10 OR 12%

I seems like you are truly on your own when you travel that road. "apply common sense or die"

 

[MSCH]

I seems like you are truly on your own when you travel that road. "apply common sense or die"

yeah... there isn't much traffic... and if you break down or otherwise become disabled its a long way to get towed or to a hospital.
funny thing was we were up near Attigun Pass and there were 2 females riding mountain bikes south... We stopped to talk to them, they had the bikes flown to Prudhoe Bay and were riding to Fairbanks. Talk about brave.. 500 miles of nothing but hills, mosquitoes, bears etc .

 

[Wayne]

up near Attigun Pass and there were 2 females riding mountain bikes south... We stopped to talk to them, they had the bikes flown to Prudhoe Bay and were riding to Fairbanks. Talk about brave.. 500 miles of nothing but hills, mosquitoes, bears etc

I hope they were well armed.

 

[Wayne]

Do they run a road grader on the road to maintain it? With that many trucks, it would see the washboards and potholes would grow very quickly.

 

[MSCH]

Do they run a road grader on the road to maintain it? With that many trucks, it would see the washboards and potholes would grow very quickly.

yeah Wayne, they work on it.. fact of the matter is alot of the gravel sections, if recently graded are far better than the paved sections.. reality is there is not much traffic, not compared to the rest of the US but what traffic there is amounts to some seriously heavy trucks with Oversize load placards and escort vehicles as well as other trucks, and a few regular vehicles and campers.

I did see one Newmar Class A up ther near the Yukon River crossing.. which would have been the nicest rig I saw up there.

you also see vehicles like this,, abandonded.

 

[Wayne]

you also see vehicles like this,, abandonded.

Did you let atikovi know it's there?

I did see one Newmar Class A up ther near the Yukon River crossing

I hope it wasn't a London Aire! Those beauties start at about $1.6M