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1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
3 guys, 3 weeks, 14,000 miles, 1,800 bucks.
It was 1991 and I just got out of college. No job and not much money. Two friends of mine had 3 weeks off from work and were heading to Alaska. One of them owned the '67 C10 that was going to get us there (and hopefully back). We each pitched in $600.00. 2/3 of it went for gas - the rest for food and whatnot. The truck: 1967 C10 short fleet with the super rare '66 bed. ![]() The pic below shows the truck at the end of the trip. Dig the plexi-glass headlight covers. ![]() The trip: The goal was to drive the pipeline haul road up to Prudhoe Bay. Since this is a private road we asked for an access letter prior to leaving. Letter in hand, we hit the road. ![]()
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic1: Cruising through the plains of Canada on the Yellowhead Highway. We exited the USA in ND. I'm from CT - it's 2 hours from corner to corner - Canada is big!
![]() Pic 2: Getting up north now on the Alcan Highway. Stopped for a dip in a glacial-fed lake. Went a little farther up the road and found the hot springs. ![]() Pic 3: Made it to the Yukon!
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic 1: Safety announcement - there's no seat belts in the bed.
Pic 2: Made it to the Dalton Highway above Fairbanks. Time to start the pipeline haul road. We got a little push back from the pipeline gatekeeper, but we whined so much he finally let us go and told us to stay out of the way. ![]() Pic 3: The through-the-windshield shot. That rooster tail in the distance is the oil company 18-wheeler comin'. Pic 4: Here's the pipeline. The pipe can actually slide side to side on those goal posts to allow for the temperature expansion/contraction. Pic 5: There's lots of cool stuff in Alaska!
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic 1: Made it to the Arctic Circle!
![]() ![]() Pic 2: Heading for the Brooks Range. Pic 3: It's not a public road. The trucks are runnin' hard and fast and you get pelted with gravel followed by a dust storm. Pic 4: Prudhoe Bay! We swore that we'd jump in the Arctic Ocean when we got there (I think this pic was taken in the middle of the night). It was cold - there were icebergs, and we wimped out. ![]()
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic 1: Time for a little fishin' on the north slope.
Pic 2: Arctic Char. (Actually a grayling - see below). Pic 3: Looking down at the pipeline and haul road.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic 1: The entrance road to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. It's huge. I think the entrance road was 90 miles.
Pic 2: Abandoned copper mine. Pic 3: Just needs a little work... ![]() Pic 4: Yup - we got stuck on the way out. Gotta watch those shoulders. ![]()
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic 1: Fishing out the back while under way. What can I say - ya get a little freaky after driving 14K miles in three weeks.
![]() Pic 2: "Wake up and look at the glacier!" ![]() Pic 3: Waterfalls near Valdez. Pic 4: Valdez seemed to have cleaned up nicely after the spill.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic 1: Denali. Home of the big one. It was in the clouds when we were there (like it usually is), but it's still a great park.
Pic 2: Public Service Announcement: Grizzly Bears are big! ![]() Pic 3: "Ya'll got funny looking deer up here." ![]() Pic 4: Alaska in July.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Pic 1: Kenai Fjords NP. That's the glacier that leads to the Harding Ice Field in the background.
Pic 2: Hiking up along the glacier with the Freddie Krueger sweater on. Pic 3: The Harding Ice Shelf. It's huge. Big. Really big. Pic 4: Surfing the Harding Ice Shelf on our rain pants. Seemed like the thing to do. ![]() Pic 5: It's a long walk back up... ![]()
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Jasper/Banff NP in Canada. We had to breeze back through Canada - customs told us to go straight to the US border. I guess we didn't look (or smell) too good at this point. Oh well, Canada was some nice cruisin'
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Cool trip! thanks for sharing, great pics!
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Awesome college road trip...wish we could all do stuff like that again...we were too naive to worry about anything!
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
"No brain - no pain".
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Cool, thanks for sharing all the pics. I think that was the same year i made a similar trip. Took us 12 days to get to wasilla. Also crossed over at banff/jasper and followed the cassier hwy. Second trip up we took the alcan and stayed in cordova. Had to take a ferry out of valdez for that one. Looks like you guys had fun!!!
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
thats awesome!
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Nice trip, that's really awesome.
On a side note, that fish is a Grayling. An Arctic Char looks like a Brook Trout.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Oops. My bad.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
No worries, not many are lucky enough to hook a line into either.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Awesome I love it.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
I love road trips...that looks like it was a blast, thanks for the pics.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
Okay, this is the coolest thing I've seen on this board yet! That must have been one hell of a trip.
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
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That truck has been to every state in the US (my friend took the license plate to Hawaii with him). ![]() He still has the truck. It has close to 750,000 miles on it. It's been through a number of engines and transmissions. It has a '67-72 bed on it now. ![]()
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Re: 1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10
awesome!!!!
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