30 July 2006
Day 14: Among Drunken & Broken Trees
Today I drove around, in search of a laundromat, eventually finding one and doing my laundry (it wasn’t just an empty exercise). Later, I thought about starting the drive toward Dawson City, but decided to wander northward to take a little peek at the Dalton Highway.
Then I drove up past Coldfoot.
Spotted:
• Mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes
It was showering the first hour or two, but started improving a bit (drying out, letting a little tiny bit of sun through) as the evening wore on.
Most of the drive here is through boreal forest. In places, it gives way to tundra. Much of these forests were ravaged by wildfires in the past couple of years (many hundreds of thousands of acres).
Departed Fairbanks around 4 PM AKDTArrived at Arctic Circle (66°33'N) at 8:10 PM AKDT
Arrived at Coldfoot, Alaska (Marion Creek Campground) (67°19'N, 150°9'W) about 10 PM AKDT
Sun: 4:15 AM - 11:59 PM
Distance to Seattle: 1,684 miles
Distance to the north pole: 1,569 miles
view routeDistance driven: 284 miles
Total driven: 4,638 miles
30 July 11:05 PM AKDT