Closeup of big horn sheep

I blew up the Big Horn as he went over the edge

WHAT HAPPENED TO FRED

I feel amiss in the fact that I failed to write about Fred and what happened to him after he took off on his own adventure.
When Big Dave and I stopped for the night at New Hazelton, Fred continued on. He wanted to make it to Hyder Alaska the next stay and have a look around. After that we met up with him at the Yukon River Camp on the Dalton Highway. He had already out ridden Dave and I to have made it Prudhoe Bay and was on his way south. I talked with Fred several days later on the phone when we were in Tok Alaska heading to Dawson, YT. Fred was in Willow AK and had ridden down along Denali National Park and was planning on heading back northeast to Tok the next day. I didn't hear from Fred after that due to phone coverage.
Monday while laying in the hammock at the house I get a phone call from Fred. He is in Hope BC. Fred after getting to Dawson had ridden up to Inuvik YT on the Dempster Highway. He told me he had stopped at Eagle Plains for the night and had planned on in Inuvik but an in coming Arctic Storm chased him out of town.
My hat is off to Fred, it sounds like he had a great adventure and a very long ride of almost 7,000 miles. I had had enough dirk and gravel roads by the time I reached Dawson, YT and I had no interest in seeing what Inuvik or Fort McPherson looked like. I hope Fred shares some of his photos with us all.

UPDATE ON CAR "KPMG ELECTRIC CAR"

FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS CAR BELOW IS THE SITE AND I CUT AND PASTED THE STORY. THIS WAS TO COOL, ME IN A PHOTO OF AN ENDURANCE CAR GOING TO ARGENTINA
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Bike the day after

I cannot seem to get a photo that shows the amount of dirt, grime and bug remains that are stuck to the bike. My mileage on the trip started out around 37 when running at 4000 rpm on the trip north to around 43-44 on the return trip south. I guess it could be because we were going downhill heading south on the return trip, but I think it has something to due fact that my bike had less than 1000 miles on it when we started and I believe that it got fully broken in on the trip. It go through a quart and half of oil on trip.

Day 14 Prince George to >>>>

We headed south on out of Prince George around 9:00 a.m. The with clear skies we planned for a hot day and we weren't to be disappointed. Heading south on 97 we found all the traffic that we had been missing. We were passing logging trucks, semi's, motor homes and just slow cars. That is not to say that we were not being passed ourselves. Big Dave was keeping the speed down around 110 km where I seem to get my best mileage. The speed limit was 100 and we had cars and pick-up traveling at better than 120km. I figured our first gas stop would be Williams Lake and we reached there around 11:30 the temperature had already reached 90 degrees. We grabbed some cool drinks and made sure our intercom was paired. Since I now had phone service I had paired my headset with my GPS and lost the pairing with Big Dave's headset. Once our communications was squared away we were off and riding. By the time we rolled into Cache Creek the temp was 104 degrees, I read 107 while traveling through the canyons north of Cache Creek where we got back on 1. We pulled into Subway for lunch and cold sodas filled up with fuel were on the road a half hour later. Cruising through Spence Bridge we kept a look out for Big Horn Sheep. The last time we came through and stopped at Rumors for lunch there we had a very large herd of sheep come down and cross the road just down from where we were eating. I guess the heat had the sheep laying down somewhere along the river. The 100 degree heat stayed with us all the way along the Frazier river Boston Bar and Hells Canyon. Must be a reason that call the section it. We reached Hope and stopped for water and fluids. Our original plan was to get across the border at Sumas and find a place to stay. The traffic coming from Vancouver was heavy and I was glad we were going west. I figured that getting to the border was going to be a slow process but when we got to the border we spent less than 5:00 minutes and were very soon getting fuel. It was 5:45 by this time and we thought we could find something in Bellingham. Once at Bellingham we found the freeway first and I told Big Dave that if I got some KFC in me I could make it home. We stopped to eat in North Seattle around exit 175. Traffic was very light for a Friday night and we rode through Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia area without a hitch or red light. We made another gas stop at exit 88 (the turn off to Oceanshores)for gas. Traffic remained light most of the way home until it came to a halt just north of exit 49 where they had closed the freeway down to 1 lane. I told Big Dave I knew how to get south and we grabbed for the exit and followed a semi down the side roads for a few miles coming back onto freeway just below the construction. I arrived home sometime after 11:00 pm. We had traveled over 700 miles that day and complete the 0over 6000 mile trip with out any incident. Sorry for the picture quality it was late and I was tired and I woke Dawna up for the photo shot.

BC Caribou

I missed the cow with her calf according to Big Dave, but this guy let me take his photo.

Big Horn Sheep

This guy was laying down in a parking area on one of the mountain passes. There were 3 or four others down on the side of the hill. He didn't take kindly to me parking and trying to get his picture