1991: CT to Alaska in a '67 C10

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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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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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Pic 1: Made it to the Arctic Circle! Other than a fuel pump change in Canada, we're still truckin'!

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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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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