Roll Call Alaska 2016
I have been planning this trip for 4+ years. It is now time to update my estimates and make my reservations. Estimate Wash/BC border about 5 May 2016, north on route 97/1/2 to Tok, south to Valdez...
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Hi all. BIG Alaska trek starting this year.
Heading up from Seattle early May 2016 or sooner depending on weather and wandering back down around October 2017. Most likely traveling solo this trip, but my navigator's seat may fill by opportunity. Not much planning done, but I'm staying in Seward over winter in a furnished rental apartment/home/condo of some kind, hopefully where I can park the RV, or I'll stick it at a local marina. With the Iditarod and many other winter activities, a Florida boy will be right at home! Whose up for a little mushing!
Plan is to backpack, fish, kayak, horse ride, ice climb, glacier hike, fish some more, mountain bike, explore and campground/ boondock camp everywhere my rig will go, whale watch, mountain climb, ski, sail, snow mobile, then fish some more. Got a freezer in the basement; gonna alive off the land (and nearly every pub I cross).
I'll brave some cold weather going up the shortest route via Cassier. Coming back, I'll pick a route out of Milepost easterly down through Jasper CA, etc. I don't get in a hurry.
If anyone wants to roll in a caravan going up, I'm not set on a date. Please let me know. My rig is set up for cold weather, so I'm going to see if I survive the trip. I know some other folks who need to be in Anchorage by 5/1, so I'll have a weather/road report. My rig is in my sig, plus I'm putting about 500 watts of solar on it before I go.
Exciting stuff....lots to learn.
Heading up from Seattle early May 2016 or sooner depending on weather and wandering back down around October 2017. Most likely traveling solo this trip, but my navigator's seat may fill by opportunity. Not much planning done, but I'm staying in Seward over winter in a furnished rental apartment/home/condo of some kind, hopefully where I can park the RV, or I'll stick it at a local marina. With the Iditarod and many other winter activities, a Florida boy will be right at home! Whose up for a little mushing!
Plan is to backpack, fish, kayak, horse ride, ice climb, glacier hike, fish some more, mountain bike, explore and campground/ boondock camp everywhere my rig will go, whale watch, mountain climb, ski, sail, snow mobile, then fish some more. Got a freezer in the basement; gonna alive off the land (and nearly every pub I cross).
I'll brave some cold weather going up the shortest route via Cassier. Coming back, I'll pick a route out of Milepost easterly down through Jasper CA, etc. I don't get in a hurry.
If anyone wants to roll in a caravan going up, I'm not set on a date. Please let me know. My rig is set up for cold weather, so I'm going to see if I survive the trip. I know some other folks who need to be in Anchorage by 5/1, so I'll have a weather/road report. My rig is in my sig, plus I'm putting about 500 watts of solar on it before I go.
Exciting stuff....lots to learn.
