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jefe_4x4
Dec 17, 2014Explorer
Joe should know. Terrific synopsis by someone who knows.
After studying all the pros and cons of everything AK, we decided to leave L.A. during the last week of May and spend the month of June in AK. We found it was before the insect hoard arrived and was mostly dry the whole time. The biggest features for us was the temperate climate with little fluctuation and the looooong days of June. We kept thinking we'd have Margaritas till sunset. On a week of that month, above the Arctic Circle that sunset never came. 8<) For us there was no fishing but plenty of game watching.
That 9K mile trip included 2500 miles of dirt and gravel roads and camping on sandbars and gravel pits up to the Brooks Range. We went up the Pacific Coast onto Vancouver Is. driving No. to Port Hardy, taking the ferry to Prince Rupert in B.C. and up the Cassiar Highway (which is now mostly paved I hear) and onto the AK highway circumventing Anchorage, but not places like chickenfoot or the Dalton Highway. We were gone 32 days.
We are contemplating another trip north and are considering a fall trip for all the good reasons joe has mentioned. Better look into the current edition Milepost.
jefe
After studying all the pros and cons of everything AK, we decided to leave L.A. during the last week of May and spend the month of June in AK. We found it was before the insect hoard arrived and was mostly dry the whole time. The biggest features for us was the temperate climate with little fluctuation and the looooong days of June. We kept thinking we'd have Margaritas till sunset. On a week of that month, above the Arctic Circle that sunset never came. 8<) For us there was no fishing but plenty of game watching.
That 9K mile trip included 2500 miles of dirt and gravel roads and camping on sandbars and gravel pits up to the Brooks Range. We went up the Pacific Coast onto Vancouver Is. driving No. to Port Hardy, taking the ferry to Prince Rupert in B.C. and up the Cassiar Highway (which is now mostly paved I hear) and onto the AK highway circumventing Anchorage, but not places like chickenfoot or the Dalton Highway. We were gone 32 days.
We are contemplating another trip north and are considering a fall trip for all the good reasons joe has mentioned. Better look into the current edition Milepost.
jefe
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