Title: Alaska, Yukon, Cassiar Highways
Subtitle: A Melancholy 1980 Ride
Description: In 1980 the author rode a muddy, moody, melancholy loop up the half-gravel Alaska Highway, around Fairbanks, Seward and Dawson, and down the unpaved Stewart-Cassiar Highway. The ride covered about 5500 miles / 8900 km. 1700 miles / 2800 km were unpaved. In 1980 the author captured it on Ektachrome. In 2014 he looked up, where possible, what the same places look like a generation later and used Google Streetview to make side-by-side “whatever happened to” comparisons
Subjects: BMW Motorcycle, Vintage Ride Report, Gravel Highway, Alaska Highway, Cassiar Highway, Adventure Riding, ADV Rider
Places: Anchorage, Bucking Horse River, Cache Creek, Cariboo, Cook Inlet, Cooper Landing, Dawson City, Dawson Creek, Dease Lake, Delta Junction, Dempster Highway, Denali, Fairbanks, Fort St John, Fraser Canyon, Glennallen, Good Hope Lake, Haines Junction, Kenai, Kitwanga, Klondike Highway, Kluane National Park, Matanuska Glacier, Meziadin Lake, Moose River Lodge, Mt McKinley, Pine Valley, Quesnel, Seward, Stewart-Cassiar Highway, Summit Lake, Talkeetna, Telkwa, Teslin, Toad River, Top of the World Highway, Turnagain Arm, Vancouver, Watson Lake, Whitehorse, Willow, Wrangell Mountains, Yukon River
Time periods: 1980