You recall a couple of years ago Jazz and I made a run for Inuvik, Northwestern Territories, Canada. The rain and the dangerous conditions cause two fairly (I said.. fairly) reasonable women to call it at the Arctic Circle. The ride, 2000 miles round-trip from Anchorage, AK - nearly 900 miles of dirt, 4 days of rain can turn this into a muddy stew that makes you evaluate your goals. This was very evident by the 5 crashes and one med-vac that occurred while we were on the road last time that other unfortunate motorcyclists experienced.
Yesterday, Michael and I have started another attempt to reach this northern Inuvialuit - real people - community. We rolled out of Anchorage and we are currently in Tok, Alaska. The holiday traffic was bumper to bumper near Glennallen, and the smoke is in the air near Tok.
There are two forest fires we were watching, the Moon Lake Complex, which we passed by without too much trouble, and the Testlin Ridge fire. This fire is near the junction of the Taylor Highway, where we plan to cut through.
Locals this morning are telling us the smoke over the Taylor is pretty bad. We are a little concerned of breathing smoke for hours. We are going to press through as quickly as possible, tonight we should cross into Canada and land in Dawson.
We will have the GPS tracker on, the link is on the right side of the blogsite:
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0QS9aMYSXoeqa10zZImLMjVlMJEvy6krY
Our goal:
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| 2000 miles round trip from home - 800 on the dirt. |
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