I logged more than 2300 miles by myself driving to Alaska from Idaho. I started early in the morning with a small radiator leak that stuck with me the entire trip. I made it to Missoula Montana where I took a break to ride some trails up Rattlesnake canyon. I was impressed with the amount of trails and folks that used them. It was a good hour mountain bike ride and I took off to make my way to Glacier National Park. The park was beautiful and quite with few tourists.
The next day I made it to Banff and Jasper National Parks which were breath taking. I've lived next to the Rocky Mountains my whole life but the Canadian Rockies are different, they are tall jagged mountains full of snow and glaciers. After I had traveled through these three parks I was getting lonely and ready to get to Alaska. The night before I stayed at a hostile because it was snowing and tents weren't allowed for the season. I had internet and bought Angles and Daemons the audio tape off of I-tunes for the following long day. I had about a 1000 miles left and wanted to travel a good distance that day. I was glade I bought the audiotape for it was my savior when I traveled the entire distance to Skagway Alaska.
Driving on the Alcan was interesting, its a wide two lane highway that's very desolate. I would go an hour before seeing another vehicle. Bison and Caribou where the main animals I saw but but I saw several black/brown bears, deer, elk, wolves etc.
When I finally pulled off the Alcan and headed towards Canada there was a lot of snow all around me. The mountains were huge and all the lakes were still frozen. You drop thousands of feet to sea level and turn the corner into Skagway. When I arrived the first thing I noticed was the smell of blooming flowers and trees.
So far my time here in Alaska has been what I always imagined Alaska would be like. Big and beautiful!
