Roll Call Alaska 2014
Anyone traveling to Alaska in 2014? We ,my wife and I, are planning a trip and was wondering if anyone is planning on going in 2014 also. Would go this year, except we have two weddings to go to in...
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sheltieRV wrote:
We are leaving from Northern CA in Mid May heading up through Vancouver and Whistler (couldn't resist tackling that old logging highway) to the Cassiar.
For the Vancouver-Whistler-Pemberton-Lillooet section of your trip, and particularly the Pemberton to Lillooet leg, ensure your brakes and cooling system are in good order.
Ours were, BUT the brakes still overheated on the fifth wheel and the truck brakes had to do the job. Truck brakes also overheated and were warm for a long while after we reached the campground, but they did the job. Thankfully. Guess I shouldn't have been pressing the imaginary passenger brake pedal quite so hard but when you're on steep declines with an 25' fifth wheel behind you and ONLY the truck brakes are effective, I felt I needed to do something besides hold my breath!
Here's our last trip through in 2009, travelling Lillooet to Pemberton: http://suethomas.ca/20090917_LLH-Pemberton.html
Another trip with just our truck back in the 1990s, blew the head gasket by overheating on the way uphill.
Here's the profile from the GPS for the Lillooet-Pemberton section:
