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Picking up the bikes in Anchorage |
Interior of Phil Freeman's shop |
Lots of happy customers |
Jack Sprat's in Girdwood |
Adventure Touring on the Kenai Peninsula |
The end of the road in Hope, AK |
Dirt road from Hope |
Seaside on the Turnagain Arm |
There were alot of moose around |
View of the Homer Spit (on the peninsula) and the Kenai Mountains
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Interesting boat...or is it a house? |
Homer, 11pm |
East End Road outside of Homer |
Great curves on this ride |
Then the road turns to dirt |
View of Katchemak Bay from the road above |
Sidestand not required |
On the beach |
Soda for breakfast |
Great spot |
Beach was easy to ride |
And went on for miles |
Tide was out (luckily) |
Road out involved a hillclimb (behind John) |
Meeting other riders at an antique water pump |
Cook Inlet |
Sunny, great scenery |
Cooper Landing |
Chunks from the Portage Glacier |
The tunnel to Whittier carries traffic and trains |
Other side of the 2.7 mile tunnel through the Chugach Mountains
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Whittier, an "interesting" place |
Alaska Marine Highway ferry |
Wayne and John heading for Valdez |
Waterfalls on the Prince William Sound |
The white areas are thousands of nesting birds |
Whittier, surrounded by mountains |
Prince William Sound |
Hundreds of little islands |
And hundreds of seals & sea lions |
Distant shot of glacier |
Many blue ice pieces dot the waters |
Face of the Columbia Glacier |
"The Aurora" |
As close as the boat gets |
Ready to disembark |
Tiny town of Valdez |
Fishing boats and multi-colored kayaks in the Valdez Small Boat Harbor |
John blazes the trail |
Copper River |
More great beach riding |
Mountains & glaciers |
Worthington Glacier |
We could ride right up to this one |
Alaska Pipeline pumping station |
Wrangell Mountains |
Copper Center Lodge |
Historic old town |
Original log cabins |
The Open Alaskan Road |
"Watch out for loose
railroad spikes"
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Rustic gas station in Chitina |
Mining era remnants |
Downtown Chitina |
Don't say you weren't warned |
Gravel roads & wooden bridges |
Bald Eagle |
Chitina River |
Modern bridge... |
Granite Range |
...not so modern bridge |
Note the spot where the curve has tipped over |
McCarthy Road |
Kennicott Mine |
The copper mill |
Now a ghost town & national park |
The Golden Saloon |
Mostly bikes at Ma Johnson's (since cars can't get to town)
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Downtown McCarthy |
Inside the mill |
The whole mill is filled with contraptions like this |
This field was caused but he retreating glacier, not the mine |
Steam production house (c. 1917) |
Rustic road beyond Kennicott |
Great views from the top |
Back to town |
The surprisingly tasty Chitina Burger Bar |
Mirror lake |
More mirrors |
Entering the Yukon |
Haines Junction sign |
Aishihik Road, 80 miles to nowhere |
No moose? |
They forgot to mention BEAR |
Yukon road |
John contemplates a grilled cheese sandwich bigger than his head
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Klondike Highway snack stand |
Klondike River |
Seeking lodging in Dawson City after a 600+ km day |
Remote town still looks like the pioneer days |
Downtown Dawson |
Downtown Dawson II |
Breakfast on the banks of the Yukon River |
Yukon dock |
Dawson view from the "Midnight Dome" |
Ferry across Yukon |
Takes vehicles to the "Top of the World Highway"
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On board |
Trusty KLR |
View of Dawson from boat |
Top of the Top |
leaving Yukon Territory |
"Population: 2" |
Downtown Chicken |
Northernmost point on the Alaska Highway |
Oil pipeline river crossing |
Near Fairbanks |
Extremely rustic accomodations in Esther Gold Camp |
Fairbanks' University of Alaskamuseum - first motorcycle to make
it to Alaska |
Bear at attention |
Old-time Malemute Saloon, Esther |
Deep Sawdust |
Nenana, where betting is done each year on when this tripod falls
into the thawing river |
Denali Highway |
One of the best roads of the trip |
Alaska Range |
Lots of green, water, mountains |
Road surface great for bikes, bad for everyone else
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Beaver dam and "Mt. Naidine?" |
Bikes got a little dirty |
Tangle River Inn |
Bikes...gas...ice...liquor... CHECK. |
Surprisingly comfortable pressboard cabins. |
Detour on the Glenn Highway |
End of this particular road... |
Couldn't tell if it was caused by a washout or an earthquake
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About a 30' drop - good thing it was light out |
View from the bar at the Hatcher Pass Lodge |
John makes a new friend - fellow KLR rider Dorrie |
Hatcher Pass |
Great road |
Talkeetna |
That white peak is Denali (Mt. McKinley) - highest point in North
America |
Good closing shot |
Another successful tour |
