Talk:Dalton Highway

message: A great deal more about the early days of the North Slope Haul Road, constructed during the fall of 1968, can be found here.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sourdoughjim ( • contribs) 02:36, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: The road was formerly gravel for its entire length, but a long-term paving project is nearly half completed.
:The statement made above about a long-term paving project is false. The road cannot be entirely paved due to the harsh elements. The road is recovered with a mix of gravel and a rubbery asphault at the beginning of spring each year. The above statement would have been corrected, but there is no edit option for that section.   [Instead of "recovered" you probably meant "resurfaced". Toddcs (talk) 21:08, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a source we can quote for that? Stan 19:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears the "long term paving project" are for stretches of the road, not the entire road. Links to two seperate articles below about the upcoming projects. NECRATSpeak to me 08:28, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Surface

message: I removed the external links pointing to personal blogs, trip reports, etc. and inserted the official BLM page for the Dalton Highway. External links should follow WP:EL. If you feel an external link to a personal blog/trip report/etc should be included, please post it here. Tedder (talk) 12:08, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Can someone add to the list "Places along the Dalton Highway" the various points mentioned in the series "Ice Road Truckers"? I don't think there is any need to create articles on such stretches as "The Taps", "The Roller-coaster", or even Atigun Pass (although one exists), but I believe users will find it useful enough if the mileposts where these landmarks begin & end -- & maybe a note about each -- are added. -- llywrch (talk) 20:37, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Something tells me that most of the recent activity on this article is motivated solely by that television show.  Reality TV in general is a boring waste of time, so I've never watched it.  Feel free to tell me that my assessment is wrong, though.RadioKAOS (talk) 04:19, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explaining the History Channel show 

message: Ice Road Truckers says that before the Dalton, there was the Hickel Highway, could someone write something about that? 76.66.197.151 (talk) 08:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: To actually speak on the Hickel Highway: Wally Hickel, during his first governorship in the 1960s, bulldozed a path (which fell somewhere between a cat trail and an ice road) with the intent on reaching the North Slope, which at that particular point in time was seeing the beginning stages of oil exploration which eventually led to the Prudhoe Bay discovery in 1968.  A few years prior, a cat trail had been blazed, but I dunno if they followed the same route or not.  Once spring thaw occurred the following year, because of the lack of a properly-designed roadbed, much of the route resembled a canal.  This was immediately prior to the rise of the environmental and Native land claims movements, so Hickel essentially had free reign to do this, but in later years it was regarded as a major boondoggle on his part.  During his second governorship in the 1990s, Hickel tried to do much the same thing with the road to Cordova, which has been held off/debated/studied and re-studied damn near since the demise of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway decades before.  Because the environmentalists had obviously gained a firm hold by this point, combined with NEPA and numerous other stumbling blocks, Hickel didn't get very far.  Bruce Biers Kendall, who worked in the governor's office under Hickel and left under acrimony, claims that Hickel's defeat on this issue signaled the point where he "gave up" on being governor.  As it concerns the Hickel Highway, however, this particular administration did pursue documenting grandfathered RS 2477 rights-of-way in Alaska, with the Hickel Highway being one of them.RadioKAOS (talk) 04:19, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Hickel Highway

message: For a section such as this, obviously you would include Ice Road Truckers, since it appears to me that people are adding stuff to the article based upon what they watch on the show.  I've also seen merchandise for sale which mixes imagery of the show with that of the highway.  Perhaps not so obvious: Ethan Daniel Davidson, a Michigan-based singer-songwriter who lived for a time in the Stearns Cabin in Wiseman and has often referred to that experience throughout his career, titled his first album Alaska 11 North, which was released in 1999.  The album cover is a photo of a Dalton Highway roadsign (which reads, coincidentally enough, Alaska 11 North) and accompanying scenery.RadioKAOS (talk) 04:19, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: In popular culture?

message: currently redirects to this article. As it is a generic term and the Dalton Highway just a specific example of one, I have nominated the redirect for discussion with a view to retargetting or deletion. Your comments in the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 April 24#Haul Road would be welcome. Thryduulf (talk) 10:55, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haul road 

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message: Just so everyone knows here, Yukon–Koyukuk is not a borough, it is part of the Unorganized Borough 2600:1700:6180:6290:60CB:CA76:257F:41DC (talk) 23:01, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
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