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    • TravelerPanamericana
      Day 344

      Reifenpanne auf dem Denali Highway

      September 18, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C

      Das Wetter ist verregnet und wir entscheiden uns deshalb gegen den Besuch des Denali Nationalparks. Den über 6.000 Meter hohen Denali Berg werden wir bei diesem Wetter nicht sehen und auf eine nasse Wanderung haben wir keine Lust. Wir biegen kurz vor dem Nationalpark nach Osten auf den Denali Highway ab. Auch bei Regen ist die Natur hier schön anzusehen. Schnell können wir auf der 200 km langen Schotterpiste nicht fahren. So bleibt uns genügend Zeit die Natur anzuschauen. Viele Tiere sichten wir leider nicht. Es ist gerade Jagdsaison. Wahrscheinlich haben die vielen Jäger, die hier an den Seiten des Denali Highways campieren, die Tiere bereits verjagt oder erschossen. Die Jäger kommen mit Pickups, Wohnwagen und Quads auf Anhängern hierhin, um jagt auf Bären, Elche, Rentiere, etc. zu machen.

      Nach einer Weile auf der Schotterpiste gerät Sprinty etwas ins schwimmen und lässt sich nicht mehr gut lenken. Jens schaut aus dem Fenster und entdeckt einen platten Hinterreifen. Klasse, und das bei Regen! Als wir zum stehen kommen pfeift die Luft noch aus dem Reifen. Ein spitzer Stein muss die Lauffläche durchbohrt haben. Wir sind ein eingespieltes Team. Regina bringt alle erforderlichen Materialien heran. Jens setzt den Wagenheber an, pumpt Sprinty hoch und checkt den Reifen. Für dieses Loch benötigen wir sogar zwei Streifen des Flickzeugs. Das Zeug vulkanisiert sich dann mit dem Reifen und wird von Regina mit dem Kompressor wieder aufgepumpt. Nach 30 Minuten haben wir es geschafft. In Sichtweite steht ein weißer Sprinter. Wie es der Zufall so will, kommt uns dieser bekannt vor. Es sind die deutschen Geologen, die wir bereits auf dem Dempster Highway getroffen hatten. Wir quatschen etwas und entscheiden uns neben Ihnen zu übernachten.
      Den Abend verbringen wir miteinander gemütlich im Sprinty. Es stellt sich heraus, das Christopher zwei GoPros dabei hat, aber eine nur zum Aufladen des Akkus benutzt. Da unsere in Chile den Geist aufgegeben hat, tauschen wir sie mit Christophers gegen einen kleinen Wertausgleich. Am nächsten Tag unterhalten wir uns noch eine Weile im Sprinter von Christopher und Merlene und fahren dann weiter in Richtung kanadische Grenze.      Read more

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    • TravelerWomotrip USA/Kanada/Alaska
      1
      Day 174

      Denali Highway

      July 31, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      Nach zwei Tagen Denali Park nehmen wir erneut eine Schotterpiste (133 Meilen) in Angriff, mit der Hoffnung, einige Tiere zu sichten.
      Gegen Nachmittag und v.a abends zeigt sich die Sonne.
      Die Fahrt führt über wunderbare Weiten. Taiga und Tundra wechseln sich ab. Schneebedeckte Berge und Gletscher, soweit das Auge reicht.
      Was für Weiten, nicht fassbar.....      Read more

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    • North to Alaska By RV 2021
      2
      Day 40

      Alyeska on the Richardson Highway

      June 11, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 55 °F

      When a pipeline stretches 800 miles — from one end of the state to the other — one is bound to encounter glimpses of it here and there.

      When we traveled the Dalton Highway in 2001 — from Fairbanks to Deadhorse on the Arctic Ocean — the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, aka the Alyeska Pipeline, was a constant companion. On our road trip this year, we’ve so far seen it on the Elliott and the Steese highways ... and today, on the Richardson Highway.

      I wonder how many more times we’ll be saying “look there’s the pipeline again.” After all, we still have a lot of miles to cover until we reach the pipeline terminus in Valdez.      Read more

    • North to Alaska By RV 2021
      Day 40

      Mountains & Rivers Along the Richardson

      June 11, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 54 °F

      The Richardson Highway is some 366 miles long. It connects Valdez in the south with Fairbanks in the north. Much of the road is rightfully designated an Alaska Scenic Byway.

      Today we drove only about 167 miles of the Richardson. A long enough distance for Mui to say that thus far it is his favorite amongst the roads we’ve driven on this trip. I have to agree. The mountains ... the streams, creeks, and rivers. They all added to our pleasure. As did the nice weather-day that ranged from cloudy, to partly cloudy, to partly sunny, to full sunshine.

      We’ll be driving a few more miles of this road tomorrow, but the section south from Paxson is going to have to wait until later in our trip.      Read more

    • North to Alaska By RV 2021
      1
      Day 41

      Icy Summit Lake

      June 12, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 50 °F

      We woke up thinking we would hike to Gulkana Glacier this morning. But the river of ice was in the shade and it would stay that way most of the morning.

      So, we postponed the hike and decided to go for a drive with the toad ... check out Tangle Lakes Campground on the Denali Highway and see if we wanted to move there on Sunday ... compare the campground to some of the boondock sites to see if one of them might be preferable.

      But before we got there, we had a spectacular spot to enjoy — Summit Lake!

      Seven miles long, the lake is right alongside the Richardson Highway ... making for easy viewing. The lake gets its name from its location near the water divide that drains the Gulkana River into the Copper River ... which empties into Prince William Sound. In the other direction, the Delta River flows into the Tanana ... which then joins the Yukon ... which empties into the Bering Sea.

      We’d heard that Summit Lake had a beautiful setting. What we didn’t expect was all the ice floes — thin ones, admittedly — covering parts of the lake. A late break up? Or was the ice coming down one of the rivers? No one to ask the question. No one to answer the question. No matter ... we can’t resist ice ... so we dallied here for a while before continuing down the road.      Read more

    • North to Alaska By RV 2021
      1
      Day 41

      Denali Hwy: Part I ... Mountains Galore

      June 12, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 55 °F

      Denali Highway is a 134-mile road that connects Paxson, on the Richardson Highway, with Cantwell, on the Parks Highway.

      When we first began planning our road trip, we intended to leave Anchorage and drive up to Paxson via the Glenn and Richardson highways ... then turn east and drive the length of the Denali Highway to join the Parks Highway. And head north to Denali National Park from there.

      We didn’t do that. Why? Denali Highway doesn’t open for the season until 15 May or thereabouts. Our departure from Anchorage on the 19th was just a tad too early then to be on that road ... a road that is only 15% paved ... and one that is described as giving visitors a true wilderness experience.

      So, we jiggled our plans, did about 8 miles of the road from Cantwell ... to boondock at Joe Lake. And left the rest of the driving for this part of our trip.

      Remember how this drive was supposed to be just for the purpose of checking out the Tangle Lakes Campground and some boondock sites?

      Well, while the campground is nice, it didn’t ring our bell. Nor did the primitive camping sites mentioned in the Milepost. We should have turned back at that point to do our glacier hike as planned. Instead, we kept going on the Denali Highway. After all, we’d already driven 25 miles of the road. Why not move up our exploration of Denali Highway to today? Why not indeed?

      We had no idea how far we’d be driving. If the gravel/chipseal portion was as good later as it was at the beginning, we might even go all the way to the other end and back. That didn’t turn out to be the case, however. Around the 50-mile mark, the gravel became rough, with lots of potholes. Add to that the slushy rain we got along the way and the gathering storm clouds. Nope, not going to drive all the way. In the end, we did 70 miles before turning back.

      The scenery along much of the road was as spectacular as we’d been told, and the frequent stops to take photos made for a long day ... but we didn’t know then that it was going to become even longer.      Read more

    • North to Alaska By RV 2021
      Day 41

      Denali Hwy: Part II ... and More

      June 12, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 54 °F

      Too many photos to share from our day on the Denali Highway ... hence, a second footprint.

      I regret, a bit, that we didn’t get to do the entire road ... but it is what it is. We have so much more to explore.Read more

    • North to Alaska By RV 2021
      1
      Day 41

      Day 41 Ends with a Glacier Hike

      June 12, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 45 °F

      It was the view of Gulkana Glacier from the Denali Highway that decided our next move ... the one that would lengthen our day of exploration by three hours.

      We ended up not only driving a mile further into the boonies from our site at Isabel Pass, but we then also did a three-mile hike to the glacier. Double all those distances for the return! Good thing it doesn’t get dark this time of the year.

      The description I had read of the Gulkana Glacier hike said to drive the Isabel Pipeline Camp Road as far as we could, park the car, and continue on foot from there. The question was, how much further could we go? After all, we’d already driven about 1.5 miles to get to the spot where we were boondocking.

      Turns out that we could have shortened the hike by driving another mile from where we decided to park the car, but the meltwater running down the road scared us off. No matter, we needed the exercise.

      We walked on the rocky road best we could, staying right when the road branched off ... only because we figured the glacier was somewhere in that direction.

      When we came to Phelan Creek, which headwaters at the glacier, we found the “bridge” mentioned in the description of the hike. It was a wobbly thing over a fast-flowing creek with deep, silty water. It consisted of some guy wires, braided steel handrails (if you can call them that) and unevenly spaced wooden slats. Yikes. But we managed to cross over without mishap ... whew!

      Then we started climbing the hill mentioned in the description. Fighting our way through some heavy brush, that snagged on everything, we eventually found a path of sorts ... visible only by looking into the distance. All part of the adventure, right?

      We didn’t make it all the way to the glacier’s terminus. For one thing, from where we stopped, the terminus was still at least two miles away. For another thing, storm clouds were gathering in the direction from which we had come. Sure, we had rain gear on, but the rocky path would be a little too slippery if we were caught in a downpour. Not to mention what the rain might do to the level of the meltwater on the road. Besides it was already 7:00p ... it had taken us nearly two hours to just get to this point.

      So, we turned back. Having made note of landmarks along the way, we negotiated the path back without getting into the brush, wobbled our way across the bridge, and walked the rocky road back to where we had left the toad in record time ... one hour. Yay!

      We can now add wilderness hiking to our resume!      Read more

    • Jenn JinhongAlaska - June 2022
      Day 9

      ‘Unamed’ Glacier walkabout

      June 27, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 45 °F

      What an experience, walking on a glacier only accessible by air. Had a chance to drink an handful of glacier melt, pure clean and refreshing!

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