Designed to record the travels of myself (Dave Demers), Dave McCune and Fred Suckow as we ride our motorcycles from Vancouver, Washington to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and back. I estimate the trip will take 17 days of riding and we have allowed 21 days for the trip. We will be riding a BMW R 1200GSA, R 1200GS and a KLR. I meant to add that Big Dave estimates the trip to be about 6,000 miles round trip.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
DAY 2
I seem to be having a problem loading photos. I don't know if it is the size of the file or just the internet connection.
Anyway we launched out of Williams Lake around 7:30am. We were looking to reach Haselton BC and according to the Garmins we should make it by 3:30 pm that was with no stops inbetween. Big Dave immediately started having with his Garmin and it tried to keep him heading west when we reached the turn off to Prince George and highway 97. As we left town I checked my fuel miles remaining and it was saying 120 miles but no sooner had we got out cruising up the road than it showed 68 miles remains. I felt bad having to stop earlier than plan but this time I ended up taking the bike ab out 10 miles passed the zeros miles remaining. 18.4 liters or over 5 gallons later we were back on the road again. upon leaving Williams Lake Dave and I had to slow down for a very large buck in velet crossing the road, but we saw him well in advance. Shortly after leaving Quesnel though Big Dave is hitting his brakes and pointing to the right as I cruise passed him to see a very large black bear off the side of the road. We turned around to take photos but this guy was too camera shy and was heading to the woods by the time I got my camera out. So off we headed back up the road and we hadn't travel more than a /4 mile when there was another smaller bear on the side of the road. We slowed and turned around and after dodging traffic I was able get my camera out but the only photo I got was of him off into the bushes.
Heading out of Prince George we headed west on 16. 16 has a lot more traffic on it mainly because itot. is the main and only road to Prince Rupert. Passing through Frasier lake we came across the world's largest fly rod but I failed to stop and coming through Tekwa we saw some rapids that we get a photo of. We arrived safely in New Hazelton aroung 4:30pm and Big Dave and I called it a day. Fred opted to continue on up the road and look for a camp ground. He wanted to get an early start Monday because he wanted to stop at Hyder Alaska. We said out good byes and hopefully we will see him on the road again.
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Small bear, huh? He's not small when I open the picture link! A short day, you needed that extra rest. You aren't lacking for the wildlife so far!
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