5483 kms later
typical driving conditions on the alcan
To get the full experiance of Alaska you really need to drive there. When you fly in you feel like you’re in the wliderness but you have no idea of how far from the civilized world you really are. As an example there are something like 33 000 people that live in all of the Yukon. Of that there are 28000 that live in whitehorse, so the entire rest of the province only has something like 7000 people. Gas stations are spaced out so that you can barely make it from one to the next. A good rule of thumb is that if you have less than 3/4 tank of gas and see a service station you stop and get gas. Of course we ran out of gas and had to tip sleds over to get enough fuel to make the next town.
Haines summit
They call them towns but all most of them are, is a gas station, couple houses and maybe a motel. The scenery is amazing with open country surrounded by huge mountains. The road is paved all the way but the frost heaves make it interesting. Truck and trailer were off the ground countless times. By the end of our tour we traveled 5483 kms.