Oronaut

Almost exactly a year after my first trip up the Alaskan Highway I was once again on the Alaskan Highway. Masochism? Self-hate? What were my motivations to make this ghastly-long drive basically twice in the same year? The big one this time was the wedding of two good friends from college. The Alaska-Bozeman connection was [...]

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After Banff it was time to bear down and do some real driving. Alaska was days away still. So we did just that: drive. The first day (starting late after the climbing, around 5PM) we drove up past Edmonton to Grand Prairie, where we camped for a few hours before waking up early to make [...]

Tags: Alcan, buffalo, caribou, glaciers, Glenn highway, Hot Springs, Kluane Lake, Liard, Matanuska, rock sheep, signpost forest, taiga, Tazlina, Whitehorse, yukon, Yukon River
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