Roll Call Alaska 2015

joe b. wrote:
Not only does the Chruch book state it is prohibited to park along the highway right of way, but so does the Milipost guide. A couple of years back, a few of us forum members spent some time trying to research the matter with no success. It almost appears to be one of the myths that go along with the Alcan/Alaska Hwy. you know many of them, from the road will tear up your rig ( no, the rig driver will tear it up if they don't have good driving skills) to you need several spare tires, etc. Repeating and believing these myths, seems to make some first/second timers feel more macho and adventuresome .
Bottom line is, we couldn't find a law that even spoke to the subject, if not road signed, no one on the forum has ever reported being told to move by law enforcement. Just get well clear of the road and don't block someone's drive way.

Of coarse most all of these are still around "except the can't overnight beside the road one" because it has not been that long ago that the rest were very relevant. Some of us have experienced the adventure of traversing this route when daily tire troubles were commonplace . In 1970 we drove from Houston , TX up through Canada and all over Alaska and back in a 1967 Ford Bronco pulling a home made "chuck wagon" trailer with new bias ply tires on the ground. Both the bronco and the trailer used the same wheels and we started out with half a dozen spares. We boondocked every night and cooked all our meals at nice places along the road . When we would make camp for the night Dad would start fixing supper and I would start fixing tires. Dismount , repair , remount and inflate with a huffer puffer devise that screwed into a spark plug hole on the engine. We brought along an assortment of hot patches , boots , and spare tubes. When we got home we had one useable spare left . All the rocks in the roadway back then were not kind to bias ply tires to say the least.
The trip we made up there in 2013 was entirely flat free , but remembering the 70 trip I simply had to bring two spares each for the truck and trailer and all the tools required to dismount , fix and remount tires along the road. "rather have em and not need em than need em and not have them"
Another 50 years and all of us old timers who braved the original Alcan will be long gone and the story's of those days will be as irrelevant to travelers then as what it took to drive a team of mules dragging a Conestoga wagon up the Oregon trail is to us today . :)