Made it to Fairbanks about a hour ago.
Stopped at North Pole AK,Christmas year round !!!.We rode thru 2 wildfires,couldn't see the fires but rode over 100 miles in heavy smoke.




Just booked 2 nights ( 1 going up and 1 comming back ) in Coldfoot and 1 night in Deadhorse ( the end of the world !! Hehe ) and a Artic Ocean tour where we can swim in the Artic Ocean,they said there are still some ice bergs up there..So tomorrow starts our 3 day,800 mile OFFROAD ADVENTURE...
DIRTY DORA DOES THE DALTON!!.



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Food at the restaurant/Hotel in Tok junction is pretty good, Haines junction had a purple thai food truck at the main gas station in town that makes a fantastic Phad Thai (was open last winter so maybe not anymore?). To top it off just north of White horse is the famous Braeburn Lodge with their GIANT Cinnamon buns, the old guy who runs the place owns (owned?) one of Steve McQueen's Indian cruisers and has pictures of it (I think he bought it directly from McQueen himself!) Its a quite a bit out of the way though.

Love the trip reports, are those kendas on Dora? How are they holding up?

We ate at Fast Eddy's in Tok and it was good and kinda cheap ( anything is cheaper than the Yukon ).There was only 2 places in Haines Junction and it was $15 for a hamburger and not very good.Right now we are eating here..



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following the updates and photos with keen interest!! .. couple of the guys from work also watching the screen when im looking sometimes and are in awe of how cool this trip is!! 

We are feeling a little nervous tonight.We just spent $700 for 3 nights and a Artic Ocean tour in Deadhorse..NON REFUNDABLE !!.
And the forcast is for a 40-60% chance of rain on the Dalton this weekend !!.
BUT this is why we came up here so onward north !!..


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you hitting the, hell i cant remember it now lol. the route the truckers take north to the ahh shaZam! ill remember it later lol a WELL known route via the dalton to the arctic circle

The HAUL ROAD,as seen on Ice Road Truckers!!.


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Isn't that the Dalton Highway?

So how's it going?

Well guys we are back in Fairbanks,pretty much nothing from the 20th century up north so no cell,internet,tv etc.So friday we road up the Dalton to Cooldfoot,about 250 miles and 100 of that dirt.EVERYTHING you have heard about the Dalton is true..X100.Epic,INTENCE road !!.



We made it to THE ARTIC CIRCLE !!.





Coldfoot Camp is really just a truck stop on the haul road that has some rooms and some of the NICEST people working there I have ever met.





THE DALTON HWY !!!.
This road is amazing,if you start thinking you got it under control it will bite ya !!.80% of the road is dirt,50% of that is pretty good higher speed stuff ( 50mph ) the rest can be nasty.






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A good try at Deadhorse !!.

Well Saturday morning we got up,loaded up the bikes,took all our not needed gear ( about 50-60lbs ) to the store at Coldfoot and headed north.The weather was good,sunny about 65 degrees.The weather in Deadhorse was SUPPOSED to be in the low 50's and cloudy,but they say it can change in a hour.We started up Atican pass,this is one steep MF !!,as we were going UP they started to water it and grade it.We are paddling up the pass at about 10mph HOPING we don't have to stop,not sure we could get going again in the DEEP mud.
We get over the pass and had to go DOWN the other side !!Not much fun with both feet down try to stop!!.About 20 miles further the temp started to drop and drop and drop!!.Then it started to drizzle,we pulled over to put on ALL our cold weather and rain gear.Before we could get it all on a full on Artic storm had blown in.We kept heading north and temp got down to about 38 degrees.The road had turned to about 1 inch of SLIPPERY mud over random sized gravel.This was starting become no fun  and we were only 80 miles into a 250 mile trip and it had taken us over 5 hours !!.
About 20 miles later we hit construction and came to a halt.We waited about 20 minutes and the pilot car and off we went.The construction had tore up the road so bad that a dozer had slid off the road and stuck us in the 38 degree rain for 1/2 hour.I looked over at Kate and asked her if she was having fun,she noded NO !!.I then asked her if she wanted to turn back and she noded YES!!.By this time the mud was OVER our tires and rims at the bottom and over the toes of our boots.a pilot car came by going the other way so we made a U turn and headed south.
We stopped to eat something in the cold rain before heading back up Atican Pass.





This is NOT a happy face.


Or a happy body !!.


About 20 miles later the rain was just off and on so we kicked into high gear and started TRYING to haul but.The Dalton will try to kill you if you become lazy so you have to pay 100% attention ALL the time.On this day alone we both had probably 50 OH CRAP moments from 10-50mph !!.Up Atican pass we went and it wasn't to bad untill we started down the other side.They were grading and watering again and mud was 4" deep and no way of stopping without just sliding,at one point Kate tried to stop and fell into me!!.




So we finally made it back to Coldfoot,almost 10 hours and 220 MUDDY,WET MILES LATER !!











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Oh crap moments indeed!  But you made it!

FRICKEN AWESOME

The good thing is it really wasn't you or the bikes that made you turn back - it was the weather and roads. Feel good you got that far.

Quite an adventure!

My goal was the Artic Circle,so I made it !!.


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"Where the Heck is Wall Drug".. Gotta love it! I have some of those bumper stickers from Nevada.

Great stuff!

Quote from: Snake2715 on July 01, 2013, 12:05:38 PM
"Where the Heck is Wall Drug".. Gotta love it! I have some of those bumper stickers from Nevada.

Great stuff!

Yea what a PITA of a town. I cant imagine a worse heap ... No offence to anyone living in wall drug ... maybe take those drugs and you'd feel better. The whole 1000 mile run through dakota/montana full of plastered crap about wall drug everywhere. They should fence that whole 3-4 states off and call it a national park ...

If I had a week to live, I'd move to Wall drug ... it would feel like an eternity.

Cool.
Buddha

atigun is a steep mother indeed. check the winter pics of it lol

I have been a truck driver for 30 years and there is NO WAY would I drive that road in the winter !!!!!!!!!!!.


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Quote from: The Buddha on July 01, 2013, 12:39:45 PM

Quote from: Snake2715 on July 01, 2013, 12:05:38 PM
"Where the Heck is Wall Drug".. Gotta love it! I have some of those bumper stickers from Nevada.

Great stuff!

Yea what a PITA of a town. I cant imagine a worse heap ... No offence to anyone living in wall drug ... maybe take those drugs and you'd feel better. The whole 1000 mile run through dakota/montana full of plastered crap about wall drug everywhere. They should fence that whole 3-4 states off and call it a national park ...

If I had a week to live, I'd move to Wall drug ... it would feel like an eternity.

Cool.
Buddha

We rode across South Dakota in the summer and Wall Drug has REALLY cold ice water !!!.


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