Niehart
Pie Smuggler
Caron Creek RV Park in Chetwynd, British Columbia is their home for the night.
Alaska 2016
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majicmaker
Well-known member
That's hilarious! Yeah, at 760 miles my ass will be screaming bloody murder and it will make me pay dearly!! :dribble:
Niehart
Pie Smuggler
They are gassing up in Williams Lake Chevron. They are making some miles ...
escapefjrtist
Searching for Dry Roads
Looks like they just crossed the border at Sumas and are making tracks for home!
Can't wait to hear about the adventure.
--G
Can't wait to hear about the adventure.
--G
Niehart
Pie Smuggler
+1
Beamer Reamer
Death Before Disco
All home safe and sound...we will catch up with the pictures later. Did a lot of dodging animals today...more than the rest of the trip combined. A moose scare this morning and almost got a double/double with a pair of bear cubs just coming into Hope.
Total miles just shy of 6500.
Total miles just shy of 6500.
Auburn
Well-known member
Home safe. Approximately 800 miles ridden today
One hell of an adventure. Stories and pictures to follow in the coming days and weeks.
Was really 505 for the day.That's hilarious! Yeah, at 760 miles my ass will be screaming bloody murder and it will make me pay dearly!!
majicmaker
Well-known member
Glad all of you are back and no worse for the wear. This will be one hell of a story to tell to your grand babies! You guys Rock!! :yes:
Panman
Well-known member
Quite a push, 1300 miles in two days. I'm looking forward to talking to you guys as next year I'm hoping to head that way.
I bet it was nice to get in your own bed.
I bet it was nice to get in your own bed.
Redfish Hunter
Gone Fishing
Ride Reports like this are both inspiring and depressing. You guys have done a remarkable thing and I admire you for it. I admire the ladies for their part even more.
You have me depressed because I do not have the time, the resources, or perhaps the courage to undertake something like this myself. Also it makes my "Big Trips" seem puny and dull by comparison.
Thank you for sharing this, I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
You have me depressed because I do not have the time, the resources, or perhaps the courage to undertake something like this myself. Also it makes my "Big Trips" seem puny and dull by comparison.
Thank you for sharing this, I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Beamer Reamer
Death Before Disco
@Panman...there is NOTHING better than the first night combo of your own shower and your own bed. I did not want to get out of either one.
Beamer Reamer
Death Before Disco
The missus has the official confirmed animal sighting count, these numbers do not include any seen in Denali National Park. Just the one's we found tooling around:
1 weasel
1 caribou
1 fox
2 wild sheep
13 bears
20 moose
75+ bison
deer (did not count)
Eagles, otters, seals, whale spouts, black swans, and a bunch of other stuff as well.
1 weasel
1 caribou
1 fox
2 wild sheep
13 bears
20 moose
75+ bison
deer (did not count)
Eagles, otters, seals, whale spouts, black swans, and a bunch of other stuff as well.
Auburn
Well-known member
A few statistics:
6353 Miles traveled over 17 days
Shortest day - 0 miles
Longest 786 miles
Approximately 250 miles of gravel roads
164.10 gallons of gas
38.71 mpg (two up towing a trailer for most of the trip - 2 days i n Seward left trailer at camp)
$187.93 Cost per day including repairs (1 tire, 4 bearings, 1 auto shop to press in bearings, and tours taken)
Value of the adventure with my wife and great friends - priceless
6353 Miles traveled over 17 days
Shortest day - 0 miles
Longest 786 miles
Approximately 250 miles of gravel roads
164.10 gallons of gas
38.71 mpg (two up towing a trailer for most of the trip - 2 days i n Seward left trailer at camp)
$187.93 Cost per day including repairs (1 tire, 4 bearings, 1 auto shop to press in bearings, and tours taken)
Value of the adventure with my wife and great friends - priceless
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Panman
Well-known member
I know how we felt after our 1156 mile run in 18 Hr's.
Felt like Zombies
I think we all slept pretty good at the Motel that night!
The Memory's you guys will have from this trip will be priceless & last the rest of your live's!
Awesome trip, I'm really looking forward to the full report.
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Uncle Hud
Just another blob of protoplasm using up your oxyg
What he said. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Auburn
Well-known member
It has been a couple of weeks since we got home. Had some time to sort through some of the 3000+ pictures that the Mrs. took.
I want to go back and add a few pictures:
Day 6 leaving Fairbanks and heading to Denali NP.
As we were looking off to the south at the amazing mountain ranges and climbing a nice grade, this came up on our right. I did a double take, and asked Mrs. AuburnFJR if she saw what I did? The answer was affirmative. Followed by should we go back and get a picture? The others were too far ahead of us to advise, so we kept going. Thus this picture is from skinny dicks halfway inn website
Needless to say we laughed pretty hard about that all day.
Later that morning, upon entering Denali NP
Traffic stopped as we got about 1/4 mile into the park entrance to see this:
and this (can you find the moose)
Day 7 Denali to Anchorage to Seward
One of the most beautiful valleys to drive through on the whole trip is south of Denali heading to Anchorage.
South of Anchorage headed to Seward along the Turnagain Arm
The Chugach (CHOO gash) National Forest - 2nd largest national forest in the United States 10,795 square miles (almost 7 Million acres)
Turnagain Pass
Seward, AK
While we were base camped in Seward for 4 days, we did two day trips without the trailers.
Day 8 was a trip from Seward to Whittier through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel to ride the Klondike Express out onto Prince William Sound for a glacier and marine mammal site seeing tour. About 5 hours round trip on the sound.
We got about 20 miles outside of Seward and BeamerReamer realized they need to fill up as Moose Pass didn't have any gas as they thought it would. They had to turn around and go back to Seward for fuel because we didn't have our trailers or there spare fuel can.
The tunnel is only one way and runs every hour, with motorcycles going last.
waiting for the BeamerReamers to catch back up.
Drizzled the whole time
Exiting the tunnel on the Whittier side (about 2 miles long) - glad we didn;t bring the trailers. The rails would have played havoc with stability going through.
I want to go back and add a few pictures:
Day 6 leaving Fairbanks and heading to Denali NP.
As we were looking off to the south at the amazing mountain ranges and climbing a nice grade, this came up on our right. I did a double take, and asked Mrs. AuburnFJR if she saw what I did? The answer was affirmative. Followed by should we go back and get a picture? The others were too far ahead of us to advise, so we kept going. Thus this picture is from skinny dicks halfway inn website
Needless to say we laughed pretty hard about that all day.
Later that morning, upon entering Denali NP
Traffic stopped as we got about 1/4 mile into the park entrance to see this:
and this (can you find the moose)
Day 7 Denali to Anchorage to Seward
One of the most beautiful valleys to drive through on the whole trip is south of Denali heading to Anchorage.
South of Anchorage headed to Seward along the Turnagain Arm
The Chugach (CHOO gash) National Forest - 2nd largest national forest in the United States 10,795 square miles (almost 7 Million acres)
Turnagain Pass
Seward, AK
While we were base camped in Seward for 4 days, we did two day trips without the trailers.
Day 8 was a trip from Seward to Whittier through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel to ride the Klondike Express out onto Prince William Sound for a glacier and marine mammal site seeing tour. About 5 hours round trip on the sound.
We got about 20 miles outside of Seward and BeamerReamer realized they need to fill up as Moose Pass didn't have any gas as they thought it would. They had to turn around and go back to Seward for fuel because we didn't have our trailers or there spare fuel can.
The tunnel is only one way and runs every hour, with motorcycles going last.
waiting for the BeamerReamers to catch back up.
Drizzled the whole time
Exiting the tunnel on the Whittier side (about 2 miles long) - glad we didn;t bring the trailers. The rails would have played havoc with stability going through.
Auburn
Well-known member
Day 8 continued:
We were on the Klondike Express. I highly recommend this tour, it was breathtaking. The crew was amazing and the scenery was...the pictures do not even come close to doing justice to what we saw. The following is just a sample of what you will see.
Our better halves:
A couple of Bald Eagles
We were on the Klondike Express. I highly recommend this tour, it was breathtaking. The crew was amazing and the scenery was...the pictures do not even come close to doing justice to what we saw. The following is just a sample of what you will see.
Our better halves:
A couple of Bald Eagles
Auburn
Well-known member
Day 9 was a day off the bikes.
Day 10 was a day trip to Homer, AK
One of the main modes of transportation to the remote areas of Alaska
The BeamerReamers
A sudden downpour and a wood deck bridge...
and the flat tire problem starts
We had 4 more tries and a phone call to EscapreFJRist to learn we need to cut the strings closer to the tire so they would not pull out.
On the way back to Seward we had just left Soldotna and a very large cow moose and her two calves walked across the road stopping all traffic. We weren't close enough to get them on the road, but just off the road.
the site of the 5th and final string we had to do. Got it right this time.
waiting for the glue to dry
Day 10 was a day trip to Homer, AK
One of the main modes of transportation to the remote areas of Alaska
The BeamerReamers
A sudden downpour and a wood deck bridge...
and the flat tire problem starts
We had 4 more tries and a phone call to EscapreFJRist to learn we need to cut the strings closer to the tire so they would not pull out.
On the way back to Seward we had just left Soldotna and a very large cow moose and her two calves walked across the road stopping all traffic. We weren't close enough to get them on the road, but just off the road.
the site of the 5th and final string we had to do. Got it right this time.
waiting for the glue to dry
Auburn
Well-known member
One lesson learned - Moose Pass, AK is not a mountain pass and they don't have any gas.
But they do sell fresh Fudge, Hot Coffee, Moose Nuts, and Jerky...wasn't daring enough to stop...
But they do sell fresh Fudge, Hot Coffee, Moose Nuts, and Jerky...wasn't daring enough to stop...
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