Yukon Triple Hybrid

[alaska teardrop]

Ira, I would imagine that those folks are headed for their homestead downriver between Eagle & Circle City in what now is the Yukon Charley National Preserve.

www.nps.gov/yuch/planyourvisit/floating ... nriver.htm

You need a shallow draft boat because of sand & gravel bars. The Yukon is over 2 miles wide in places and even where it's narrower & deeper, you can get hung up on the inside of bends.

The Yukon starts in Canada & goes all the way across Alaska. In the '50s there were only two bad roads in Alaska to access the river (open in summer only - no bridges) ending at Eagle & Circle. It hasn't changed much. The road to Eagle is still dicey & closed in winter. The road to Circle is a sorta good gravel road but sometimes closed in winter. Since about 1970 there is now one more sorta good road, one bridge & one gas station closer to the center of the state, the Dalton Highway (known as the Haul Road & of coarse open all year - it was only opened about 1995 to the public, even though we paid for it). It was built for the pipeline & access to the North Slope.

Transportation is a bit different up here than you're used to, Ira. Look at a state road map. Those roads you see are all you get! Try driving on four wheels most anywhere else, you won't get far. It's either fly, use the rivers or some other form of transport like human power, dog power or snow machine.

Two more links:

http://water.usgs.gov/nasqan/progdocs/f ... konfs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon_River

Fred

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[Ira]

Man...

The nudie bars must do terrible business with THOSE roads.

[alaska teardrop]

Man...

The nudie bars must do terrible business with THOSE roads.

:lol: Well, Ira, I guess that's another thing that's different from what you're used to!

You won't find one single liquor bar in Alaska on the Yukon. Swim up river to Dawson, Yukon Territory Canada for that.

Now you know the reason for bootlegging & steambaths!

[AlaskaJack]

Man...

The nudie bars must do terrible business with THOSE roads.

:lol: Well, Ira, I guess that's another thing that's different from what you're used to!

You won't find one single liquor bar in Alaska on the Yukon. Swim up river to Dawson, Yukon Territory Canada for that.

Now you know the reason for bootlegging & steambaths!

.....And Otters on floats filled with sporting girls...

[alaska teardrop]

Hey Ira,

Remember this statement?

Ira,

Transportation is a bit different up here than you're used to, Ira. Look at a state road map. Those roads you see are all you get! Try driving on four wheels most anywhere else, you won't get far. It's either fly, use the rivers or some other form of transport like human power, dog power or snow machine.

Check out this saga that started last fall & just ended

The Anchorage hunters who got two pickup trucks stuck in the tundra off the Dalton Highway about 350 miles north of Fairbanks while trying to retrieve caribou they shot in September finally succeeded in getting the vehicles out......

The hunters, from Elmendorf Air Force Base, tried three previous times this winter to extract the trucks. This time they used jackhammers and rotary drills powered by generators that were hauled to the site by snowmachine to dig the trucks out of the frozen tundra.....

The truck closest to the highway, a Dodge Ram 1500 stuck about a half mile from the road, was removed on Saturday. The other truck, a Ford F-150 stuck about 4 1/2 miles from the road, was freed on Tuesday.

http://newsminer.com/2007/04/05/6316/

Fred

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[doug hodder]

Fred...I'd imagine that they were in a panic to get them out as isn't the date the 15 of April to have all tracked vehicles off the tundra?...I think it used to be...I also wonder just how long these guys have been up there, doing the outdoor thing...a rubber tired vehicle across tundra, without any sort of previous trail is just a plain stupid idea, unless it's a wide profile tired 6 wheeler..it's almost impossible to even walk in certain areas with the type of vegetation tufts that occur, let alone the spongy mosses....they should have thought about that one before they got a Caribou that far off the road...they're lucky Alyeska is going to eat the bill on the tow...I think they ought to pay that one also. And having hunted up there...they ought to get a hefty fine if they didn't haul the carcasses out and left them there...Doug

[alaska teardrop]

Doug,

Things have changed up here since your day.

Hunting where they were is OK. But, you can't hunt or drive any motor vehicle within 5 miles of the Haul Road. Those guys are lucky they were soldiers & got a little understanding from the law. If it were you & I, we'd a been in deeper do do than their trucks!

Fred

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