Alaska..2015?

[eemsreno]

Steve I think it's your video I have but did you guys take a shot gun with you and if so how did the border crossings go and what paper work do you need?
Thanks Paul.

Paul
That is my video you have , I like handing them out.
Yes we took shotguns.
My son had a Remington and it went right through no problems.
My shot gun is a Hatsan home defense and it was a hassle to get through. They did everything they could to stop me from bringing it but in the end they gave it back and said it passed by one millimeter .
There is a paper you can fill out then print off on the internet. They have them at the boarder but it speeds things up if you already have it filled out.

Steve

 

[jbjke]

Would love to go, working on the details of who's covering for me when I'm gone is in the works. Anyone have any good used heated gear in Large? Sounds like it gets a little cool up there. Maybe take an extra battery for heated sleeping bag out under the stars. Asked my 18 yr old boy if he would like to go and it sounds like he's thinking about college .... which is a good thing. What was the record for the youngest Tenere rider - 29?

 

[eemsreno]

Would love to go, working on the details of who's covering for me when I'm gone is in the works. Anyone have any good used heated gear in Large? Sounds like it gets a little cool up there. Maybe take an extra battery for heated sleeping bag out under the stars. Asked my 18 yr old boy if he would like to go and it sounds like he's thinking about college .... which is a good thing. What was the record for the youngest Tenere rider - 29?

Hay, you can't go without me.
Get that boy to go, Trip of a life time!!!
Is that avatar a picture I took?

PS
Tell that boy if he forgot how to ride, I give lessons .

 

[pub610]

Last summer, for my 63rd birthday, I rode to Alaska. By myself. Camped about half the nights (I swear motels are farther apart in B.C. and Yukon than in Alaska). 8500 miles through Alberta, BC, Yukon and too-brief Alaska bits, 17 days including lots of photo stops. I spent almost $3000 including $300 for a new tire on the way home... the Anakee3 was not as durable as I'd hoped.
I didn't take a gun. All the violent felons were occupied elsewhere, I escaped without injury, threat or robbery.
I did need my Deep Woods Off -- kept a can in my tank bag and doused myself regularly.
Lots of dampness but the only real rain came while I was in Dawson for the D2D. I followed EricV over the Top of the World Hwy right after the rain -- some challenging moments. It was cool most of the time... I wore my electric liner and kept it plugged in, though most days I only needed it early or late.
If I could do it again, I'd add three days but I didn't have three additional days available to me so enjoyed what I had.
Take cash -- credit card issues in Canada a couple of times. I rented a SPOT tracker so my family could follow my route and to relieve their concern while I was off grid. They liked it a lot. My biggest problem was sleeping -- it seemed like it never got dark in my tent.

I do plan to go back in a year or two, and I'll go a little more slowly. Maybe I'll celebrate my 65th in a campground along the Columbia Ice Fields Parkway.

Go while you can.

 

[rem]

Go while you can.

Adventure before Dementia ::008:: ::012::

 

[pub610]

Adventure before Dementia ::008:: ::012::

I should get a decal... my kids/grandkids would love that.

 

[howier]

Planning on doing Alaska August of this his year. Shipping bikes to seatle then taking ferry to Haines. Go north to the ocean then head home to Michigan. Two of us and planning on 21 days to do it in. Looking forward to it. Should be on the dalton starting around the 12th. Will look for fellow tenere riders. Anyone wanting to join in with us send me a message.

 

[eemsreno]

pub610

Taking a shotgun has nothing to do with encountering other humans.
We camp in very remote bear country.
Sleep better at night that way.

 

[jbjke]

Somewhere on U tube I saw a teenager's home invention of a piece of pipe and a larger pipe that would fit over it and he would slide a shotgun shell in and slide the two together and was pretty accurate up to about 50 - 75 ft to explode a full soda can. Wonder if you could add the pipe into a bumper on the rear of your panniers. :-\ Worst thing about it was being a single shot.

 

[54Nfree]

Did a 18 day trip to alaska by my self cost $4200 camped only 1 time but did buy two tires . jim

 

[Checkswrecks]

Would love to go, working on the details of who's covering for me when I'm gone is in the works. Anyone have any good used heated gear in Large? Sounds like it gets a little cool up there. Maybe take an extra battery for heated sleeping bag out under the stars. Asked my 18 yr old boy if he would like to go and it sounds like he's thinking about college .... which is a good thing. What was the record for the youngest Tenere rider - 29?

My youngest graduated college and we rode from DC to Alaska, starting in June 2012. Over the 4 years of college, he became his own man and the trip was our reconnection. For the first couple of weeks, his normal part in conversations was "unh-Huh" or "Naaa" while he was texting with multiple friends or playing games on his phone. I'd write/phone with home about how damned frustrating it was getting most of the way to Hyder.

Tim and I saw a lot, eventually laughed a lot, and then something clicked and we were doing it together. It all came together when homeward and camping above Breckenridge CO on a spectacular night, when he quietly asked "How about doing the TransLabrador Trail next year?" This was minutes after we got home after a month on the road together:

He got his first real professional engineering job, moved away for better than a year, and the TransLab trip hasn't happened. But he's recently moved back into our area, we are still close, and he is looking to replace the old Strom for us to take a new adventure.


So my 2 bits:
JUST DO IT!
::012::

 

[Checkswrecks]

Somewhere on U tube I saw a teenager's home invention of a piece of pipe and a larger pipe that would fit over it and he would slide a shotgun shell in and slide the two together and was pretty accurate up to about 50 - 75 ft to explode a full soda can. Wonder if you could add the pipe into a bumper on the rear of your panniers. :-\ Worst thing about it was being a single shot.

No, the worst thing will be getting introduced to your cell-mate, because making your own fire arm is massively illegal in both countries. The ratio of risk to the potential penalty here is massively bad bad bad.
On the upside, these are two cells in BC and they look nicer than many!

 

[rem]

On the upside, these are two cells in BC and they look nicer than many!

Yeah, except they don't show "Bubba" sitting over in the corner. It was his cell first ..... and he doesn't much like company. R

 

[jbjke]

I'm with ya on the "son to himself bit" - My son did go with us to Moab and rode from IA all the way, camped, had a lot of fun though HE won't admit some of it. eemsreno was a great host and I really enjoyed the trails. For some reason I've never been good at getting him opened up but I know that's my fault. My father was somewhat that way too. There are fathers and then there are great fathers who find a sport or hobby that their kids enjoy. I'm glad you did the trip with him, I know he'll remember it the rest of his life. Glad to hear he received his engineering degree.

As for the homemade shotgun, never put any thought to it after I saw how this young boy was shooting a piece of iron pipe. Somewhat looked suicidal to me. I'd rather use the trusty ol Mossberg or Remington. Not worth losing life or limb, and/or joining Bubba in the cell.

 

[Checkswrecks]

...There are fathers and then there are great fathers who find a sport or hobby that their kids enjoy. I'm glad you did the trip with him, I know he'll remember it the rest of his life. Glad to hear he received his engineering degree.

As for the homemade shotgun, never put any thought to it after I saw how this young boy was shooting a piece of iron pipe. Somewhat looked suicidal to me. I'd rather use the trusty ol Mossberg or Remington. Not worth losing life or limb, and/or joining Bubba in the cell.

My Grandpa left my Dad a machine shop and I actually did make zip-guns as a kid. Always shot them with a string to the trigger and piece of pipe held in a machinist's vice. Never brave or dumb enough to shoot one while holding it.


I remember eemsreno's ride report and your photos. You guys are one reason that Moab is on my bucket list!


I've got 3 kids, now 25, 27, and 39. I was pretty strict in insisting on what I thought was right with the oldest, he joined the Army at 18, is still in, and I just hear from him at holidays (usually) and when he wants something. He and his wife are super-independent and he is a highly decorated soldier, but I've got 2 grand-kids who I don't know. I f-d up big time.


I mellowed massively with kids #2 and #3 a couple of years after the oldest split, deciding they were worth my yielding, and actually listened to them. My German ex didn't learn and still treats them like teens. They frequently didn't get their way, but they at least got me to listen and probe them for the real reasons they were asking, and we'd talk. Now, we hang out regularly, talk and text near-daily, and they avoid the ex who lives only 3/4 mile from me.




Enough sappy relationship stuff and back to the Alaska 2015 discussion. If you can't find a heated jacket by then and can wear a L or XL, pm me and we ought to be able to loan one to you for the trip.

 

[rem]

Just sort of a FYI sort of thing ..... I plan to be out of the Territory roughly from July 6 to about July 22 sort of thing .... give or take. You are all still welcome to come camp at Chateau Rem-O and use my garage, tools, etc, but would be a lot easier and more better if I were there. Anyway, just throwing that out. The dates I mentioned are pretty firm at this point, unless I have an encounter with a Mac truck or something of comparable seriousness. So there you go. ::022:: R