Mike W
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enblethen wrote:Gas Buddy can be of help for fuel costs.
You need to calculate liters to US gallons and then converter Canadian dollars to US dollars.
I've checked that one. Doesn't appear to list diesel. Maybe I'm using it wrong
Found info elsewhere tho. Global Petrol Prices dot com. Looks like it was as high as 7.14 US a gallon in June and is now just below $6 a gallon.
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Once you open for example British Columbia, in the upper left side, there is normally a box that shows "regular fuel prices".
Click it for a drop-down menu that shows other gases and diesel.
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Mike W wrote:got my 2022 MilePost. Little daunting. Gonna dig in this weekend. But curious what fuel prices are in BC and Alaska this summer? gallon of diesel? Gallon of gas? Thanks
Most recent diesel fill-up with my RDS discount card and at the station with the lowest prices in the general area (based on nothing more than anecdotal drive-by) was $4.64/gallon....Monday or Tuesday in Big Lake AK
Most recent gas fill-up (last night) $4.44/gallon for regular. Premium (which I routinely get for the toys but not last night) was $5.19/gallon. Grocery chain gas in Los Anchorage.
Big Lake is about 45-50 miles from Anchorage (depending how it's measured) and I find diesel to be cheaper there by $0.10 - $0.25/gallon than in Anchorage...but of course that's very much the exception. Generally, one can add 25-50% to the Anchorage prices for the more distant areas on the road system.
...we won't discuss avgas for the ol' PA-12.
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Thread drift (sort of)...
Starting around Great Falls, Montana, how early in the season is OK to start north.
- We travel slowly...typically 300-500miles per week, so it will take us a while to get to the northern section.
- We don't mind cold down into the teens at night.
- If it's snowy/icy, we have no issues holding up for a few days until the roads are clear.
Thinking of heading out first or second week of May. Getting to Alaska mid June.
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Last full trip (going North) I took was in 2018...how time flies....we left Ewe-stun TX circa April 10...arrived in Los Anchorage circa May 26 or so, late May in any case. We entered Canada from Montana and I seem to recall crossing the border circa May 17 -19 or so. Did not encounter snow on any of the main roads, had one snow flurry (turned into rain as soon as it hit something, no accumulation) around Whitehorse, no temps that were below freezing enough to notice (i.e. it may have toyed with 32 for a bit, never stayed that low).
Lakes in Northern BC, YT, and Alaska north of Los Anchorage were still frozen / snow covered.
...all as best as I can recall..
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In most areas of BC and Alberta the campgrounds don’t even open until May long weekend ( Victoria Day weekend which is the third Monday in May. The reason for that is the fear of water freezing at night in the campground infrastructure, and lack of tourists in cool / cold weather. During the weekend a earlier opening campground might be nearly full, but come the weekdays they clear out and only leave a few of us retired people to keep the outhouse toilet seats warm. Pretty hard to justify keeping people on the payroll when they are only providing service to a few campers during the week days.
This is not to say there aren’t campgrounds , Provincial, national, community or private open early, however if your planing on staying in Campgrounds the farther north you go the colder it will be.
The spring of 2017, 18, 19, 20 and 21 were very warm up here, my wife keeps a travel camping log book and those years we started camping in the bush early.
In 2020 one FSRS ( Forrest Service Rec Site, which are off road campsites with no amenities) we got into at the beginning of May which is unheard of, usually we are in some snow and have in the past got some snow over night.
Last spring we started camping at the beginning of May and we froze our butts, wind, cold rain and yes…snow, and kept freezing our butts until the end of June. Our last day camping before the July 1st long weekend ( Canada day) when we woke up there was fresh snow on the mountains above us.
You can travel anywhere you want at any time of the year if your prepared. Myself I wouldn’t heading north until at least the 2nd to 3rd week of May. Heck last spring I was snowmobiling the 1st week of April and we only live 3 hrs north of Spokane Washington in British Columbia.
Good luck on your adventure
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This was May 21, 2022, about 2.5 hrs north northwest of the Washington BC boarder above Spokane.
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Thanks for the feedback. With flexibility and no minding moderately cold weather, sounds doable.
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enblethen wrote:Gas Buddy can be of help for fuel costs.
You need to calculate liters to US gallons and then converter Canadian dollars to US dollars.
Current price on Vancouver Island is C$2.07 per liter.
There are 3.8 liters in a US gallon. therefor price is 2.07 x 3.8 = C$7.86 per US gallon.
Current exchange rate is approx. C$1.29 for 1 US$
Therefor cost per US gallon is Approx. US$6.09
Hope this helps.
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My Julie and I made the Alaskan journey twice, once in 2015 & 2018. Keep your itinerary flexible and as one of the poster said do Canada and Alaska first. In getting reservations for Denali good luck you'll most likely have to boondock which we did a lot of and there's lots of boondocking in Alaska and Canada.
I would suggest adding Tuktoyaktuk to your to see list unbelievable sights, in Canada. In Alaska add the Dalton (aka Haul road) to your list.
The days are long so you may find yourself driving longer than intended, Fairbank day was over 21 hours long when we arrived.
If you don't have them get black out covers for your windows.
Now for the Alaskan stat pest the mosquito bring mosquito netting it was the only that kept them off me.
You can't over stay unless you have trouble with cold weather.
Before I forget download iOverlander app. a good source of wild camping and just for the night places.
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We just back 9/20 /22 from Alaska, in Seward the diesel was $5.69 gal at one place in Canada we paid $2.28 ca per liter. The price varies on the region with the south Canada being much cheaper.
Also check to see your weight a bridge was damaged badly by a tanker fire and is limited to 30,000 lbs limit near fort nelson.
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