Extra Tires to the Yukon?
A friend who went the Alaskan highway up to the Yukon as far as Dawson City says I should carry more than one spare tire each for my truck and trailer when we go this July/August. But his experienc...
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Yeti plus wrote:
Brulaz, make sure you have a small vacuum cleaner along for the Dempster. When we did it in 2016 it was rainy/wet most of the way north. I power washed the back of the camper to allow us to get in at Eagle Plains, and again in Inuvik because of the mud on the camper and truck.
It was beautiful sunny days driving south. The dust is like flour, and it sucked in the door of the camper, being on the back. We spent an hour with the little dustbuster vac before we went to bed. The hardware store in Dawson City didn't have the baby Shop Vac in stock , but I got one in Whitehorse when we got there and vacuumed the whole camper.
Wet=mud
Dry=dust
Enjoy the north.
Brian
The first time we encountered the "dust flour" it really had me baffled. It infiltrated our travel trailer, when we crossed the top of the world highway. It was a really dry, and one of the worst fire seasons on record. The dirt flour on the road was at least an inch deep. The first time we saw it inside the trailer, the vibrations had collected it into weirdly artistic lines and squiggles on the floor. Took me a moment of kneeling and poking at it, until I figured out what the heck it was. That year we bought a small vac. in Valdez, since we just couldn't take the dirt anymore.
