Picto Diary - 13 June 2016 - Alaska!

Day 6. Whitehorse, Yukon to Tok, Alaska. 390 miles. 2012 BMW F800GS motorcycle.

Above: Bishop. Border crossing, Yukon to Alaska.

Day 6. Whitehorse, Yukon to Tok, Alaska. 390 miles. 2012 BMW F800GS motorcycle.

Intermittent rain. 40 miles tedious construction. Washboard. Slick hard pack. Pay attention. Minimal torque or slip slide and go down.

Unimaginable vistas, including cloud combinations, all directions.

So many bears along side the road it's starting to tire. Today, a grizzly mama, cub pair. Considering John Galt's warning about brown bear mamas with cubs, I slow down to watch, but don't stop.

Alone on this stint as I'm trying to close the loop on Park City to Deadhorse motorcycle ride. Did the Delta Junction (where I'm headed tomorrow) Deadhorse segment 5 years back.

I'll rejoin my friends in Haines, AK a couple of days hence.

Above: 2012 BMW F800 GS motorcycle. Tok, AK. 13 June 2016.

As seen through the door of my motel room at Fast Eddie's, Tok, AK.

Tomorrow... the assault on Delta Junction.

Addendum:


Hi Steve:

Your Alaska adventure sounds like fun, I'm kind of jealous, just wandering around down here in Wyoming and Montana for 10 days.

Four Photos attached:

100 yards or so as you start up the Dalton Highway (you'll be on pavement) there is a sign on the right for The Dalton Highway (see pic 1).

In 2004 (first pic) the sign was a virgin, so I decided to place one of my personal stickers on it, defacing public property like a good AMA rider should :-)

In 2005 I was headed back up to Deadhorse again, and noticed others had decided to copy me, adding their stickers, but I had to sticker it again because the winter freezes the plastic stickers (or Highway Department scrapes them off) and they crack and blow off or some internet troll scrapes them off.

In June of 2009 I found my old sticker still there, but with more added.

Last pic I took was 2010, when the sign was fully stickered!

Maybe you could take a pic for me this year, show me if I need to go back up (trip up/down Dalton Highway #11) and re-sticker the route, kind of like a big dog marking trees.

I had also stickered the back of the Arctic Circle sign, several times, but the Highway Department got real aggressive there: scraped and repainted it one year, then next year cut out a new backing piece of plywood and covered all the old stickers. The new backing I re-stickered with a lamenated sticker and thumb tacks. I suspect those are all gone.

John Logan (Big Dog) and his wife are headed up towards you, starting from Colo Springs tomorrow. BMW1200, two-up. Maybe you Dogs will pass on the road.

Best,

Dr. G
Chief, World Adventure Affairs Desk, CITY BIKE Magazine