Motorbiking The Top of the World
After a great day on the Denali highway, Roger and I made for Chicken Alaska on our way to Dawson City via the Top of the World Highway. On the way from Tok to Chicken, we wound our way through the remnants of massive forest fires with millions of dead scrub spruce still standing on the permafrost.
We must have met at least 50 people on motorbikes and in chicken saw at least another 30 and later 40 more. You see we were going toward Dawson city just as the famous “Dust to Dawson” motorcycle rally was ending so many of the riders were headed home to Alaska or continuing their travels. What a divergent collection of bikes and riders!
The Top of the World highway is aptly named because it snakes along the top of mountain ridges for about 100 km with some amazing views – particularly near the Canadian border.
We ended the day at a nice quiet government campsite beside the Yukon river, just North of Dawson City where we could watch the river paddle wheeler go by.
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Also the Spot tracker shows our route at:
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0y5pH4BBN7xg01if5bvx6V4x9LLcZgciS
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| Massive fires through here |
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| Lots of bikes at Chicken |
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| Top of the World! |
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| The Canadian Customs building |
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| Comfy camp |
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| Dawson City riverboat paddlewheeler |
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