campalaska
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Looking for info on Dalton highway. i live in the anchorage area so i know stuff temp wise. ill be in a truck camper prepared for boondocking. looking for inch on good camping places. for safter ill have: generator, solar, jump starter (bascly a battery pack), a 12v air compressor, 2 water filters, 40 gallons of H2O stoage and more. thanks!
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joe b.
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When do you plan to make the trip? This winter or next summer? If you are talking about this winter, your living in Anchorage won't have given you any real experience with the cold, you can and will run into up in the Interior of the state. In the summer it is just a shorter version of what the Alaska Highway was prior to being paved. Always a chance to damage a tire, fuel up when you can, watch out for other traffic, especially heavy haulers and have fun.
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explorenorth
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You'll find a pile of information on the Dalton (including an excellent BLM guide to the highway), here.
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cewillis
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A few summer pictures starting here.
I took two spares, and suggest you do, too.
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Moose Nugget
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We did this trip last July, if you PM me I'll fill you in. Over all it was a great trip.
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campalaska
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i plan on making this trip in the upcoming summer. ive been to atigan pass (sp) but many many years ago and wasnt camping. if people could recomend good camping spots that would be great.
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campalaska
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having a truck camper should i add say 1 inch of dense blue foam to the truck bed to help with vibration of the camper?
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cewillis
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campalaska wrote:i plan on making this trip in the upcoming summer. ive been to atigan pass (sp) but many many years ago and wasnt camping. if people could recomend good camping spots that would be great.
This is at milepost 114.
Just beyond the pass, near the high point I think, at milepost 305.6, there is a winter road maintenance camp that will be deserted in the summer.
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campalaska
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thanks, wheres some places (mile post would be nice) where i can filter water from a stream, cant be to silty though, its for drinking. Also cewillis how many days did you take to get to dead horse from Fairbanks? how bout coming back? Also cewillis nice steps i have the EXACT same ones. I guess we Alaskan's think the same.... (CHEEP! =)
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cewillis
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campalaska wrote:thanks, wheres some places (mile post would be nice) where i can filter water from a stream, cant be to silty though, its for drinking. Also cewillis how many days did you take to get to dead horse from Fairbanks? how bout coming back? Also cewillis nice steps i have the EXACT same ones. I guess we Alaskan's think the same.... (CHEEP! =)
Don't know about filtering water along the way. In many places, you can't get very far from the road due to soft ground.
I took three days from Fairbanks to Deadhorse, and two days to get most of the way back.
Here's a reply I just posted to another question about my trip.
I was way too lazy to describe each picture as I took it, but if you haven't already, look at this page. It has a route plan for the trip, an actual GPS track, a schedule, and a detail page.
Schedule shows where I stopped, or were I was camped, each day. You can correlate the schedule dates with the dates on each picture if you want to know approximately where the picture was taken.
Detail has a short description of the trip, and the equipment I used.
Yes, the steps were cheap (Ace Hardware), but not the cheapest thing I saw.
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