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- From: leavitt@cs.umd.edu (Mr. Bill)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Alaska Route (was What would you ride on a long distance trip?)
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:40:41 GMT
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- brady_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Brady) writes:
- >Recently I've been thinking about taking a long distance solo ride -- a ride to
- >Alaska from my home in New Hampshire. I'd ride the Trans-Alaska Hwy through
- >...
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- meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain) replies:
- >Anybody planning on doing this trip should get The Milepost. It has
- >detailed information on the Alaska Highway and other highways/ferry
- >routes throughout the Canadian Northwest and Alaska.
-
- Getting onto a real tangent...
-
- I've plotted an outlandish Canadian/Alaskan tour (a solid 6 months by my
- calculations), the main stumbling block of which would be securing passage
- for bike and self from the Great Slave Lake up the Mackenzie towards the
- Beaufort Sea. The idea would be to ride into the Northwest Territories to
- the Great Slave Lake, load the bike and myself on a freighter at Yellowknife,
- perhaps Ft. Providence, then proceed by water the 1000 miles or so up the
- Mackenzie River above the Artic Circle, disembarking at either Inuvik or
- Artic Red River. I would then once again proceed by moto, heading south
- towards Dawson.
-
- Question: Does anybody in the Great White North (or the States, for that
- matter) know what kind of river commerce exists on the Mackenzie, if any?
-
- Okay, so the REAL main stumbling block to this trip is that I'm not
- independently wealthy. We all gotta dream, don't we? ;^)
-
- ObOriginalThread: For this ride, I'd select a R100GS P/D. I don't expect
- to see a lot of Exxon stations between Inuvik and Dawson...
-
- Mr. Bill
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