The Dalton Highway

[twigg]

Hi,

 

Has anyone taken a 1st Gen VR up the Dalton Highway in the last couple of years or so?

 

Mine is itching to do it, thinking of next summer. It would be about a 4900 mile round trip.

[OB-1]

Hi,

 

Has anyone taken a 1st Gen VR up the Dalton Highway in the last couple of years or so?

 

Mine is itching to do it, thinking of next summer. It would be about a 4900 mile round trip.

 

I think your mileage is a bit off. It's 3320 miles one-way from our place in Wyoming.

[RedRider]

You can find all you want to know in the Alaska regional forum on ADVrider.com

 

http://www.advrider.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=68

 

Have a great time and let us know how it works out.

 

RR

[twigg]

I think your mileage is a bit off. It's 3320 miles one-way from our place in Wyoming.

 

Yeah, sorry, that was meant to be one way.

[twigg]

You can find all you want to know in the Alaska regional forum on ADVrider.com

 

http://www.advrider.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=68

 

Have a great time and let us know how it works out.

 

RR

 

Yeah .... I can find out in loads of places, I was wondering if a 1st Gen had made the trip recently.

 

Thanks

[friesman]

I think Mother and Sherry did a whole continent tour that included Alaska in 2009 when they stopped in to visit our Kruisn the Kootenays Rally. If ya want any Info just PM Mother here in the forum.

 

Brian

[Gary N.]

I was there last summer on the RSV but took a bus tour up the Dalton as far as the Arctic Circle. After doing the "Top of the World Hwy." later in the trip, on the bike, I think the Dalton (at least as far as the Arctic Circle) would have been a piece of cake.

The Top of the World Hwy. was a rough go on the RSV but we made it and glad we had the chance to do it. I was advised to only do it if it was dry and it was. That night it rained and we heard that three culverts got washed out and some people were stranded. Other than the International border check point there is nothing for 100 miles from Chicken AK. to Dawson City Yukon.

Construction zones are the worse part of the trip. The last 100 miles or so of the Alaska Hwy. in the Yukon is awful. Be careful of frost heaves, pot holes and very long and wide cracks that can grab your front wheel on that stretch. There was about 40 miles of construction right at the Alaska border last year. We hit it the day after an all day rain and it was like driving in oat meal.

If you have the time to take the Alaska Marine Ferry from Prince Rupert to Juneau and up to Skagway or Haines, I recommend it. Also the narrow gauge railroad from Skagway is great. Here's a link to the latest Alaska Marine Hwy. news letter. http://up0.net/functions/message_view.html?mid=1029873&mlid=23139&siteid=667323&uid=0363fa21af

We drove the bike from Edmonton Alberta and back and put over 5000 miles on the bike.

[twigg]

Thanks Gary.