Alaska 07 – Epic Motorcycle Trip

Map of the trip.

Google Map

Here are the daily trip reports:


Day .5 – Los Angeles
Day 1 – Los Angeles to Berkeley
Day 2 – Berkeley to Crescent City (Ran out of Gas!)
Day 3 – Crescent City to Seattle
Day 4 – Into Canada (And NO WE HAVE NO GUNS!)
Day 5 – To Dawson Creek!
Day 6 – Mile 0 of the Alcan & Laird Hot Springs
Day 7 – The Sign Forest & Haines Junction
Day 8 – End of the Alcan and Fairbanks
Day 9 – Top ‘o the World!
Day 9 – Story of the Dalton Highway
Day 10 – Road to Haines
Day 11 – On to the Ferry
Day 12 – Lazy day on the Ferry
Day 13 – Ferry stop and Totem Poles
Day 14 – Farewell to the Ferry Biker Gang
Days 14 & 15 – Long Ride Home, Seattle to San Diego

Ride Itinerary

This was the original plan, I’ll post up what the actual miles were sometime soon. You can find the daily miles in each of the blog entries above.


Day Date Waypoint Mileage Totals Hours Notes

LA to Seattle

0 5/24/2007 Kevin's 0 0

1 5/25/2007 San Francisco 382 382 5.88

2 5/26/2007 Grant's Pass 436 818 6.71

3 5/27/2007 Seattle 418 1236 6.43

Total 1236

Seattle to Fairbanks/Haines The meat of the Trip can be found here

3 Seattle 0 0

4 5/28/2007 Quesnel 485 485 8.82

5 5/29/2007 New Hazelton 344 829 6.25

6 5/30/2007 Watson Lake 490 1319 8.91 There are some hot springs about 40 miles out of our way if we want to stop there

7 5/31/2007 Haines Junction 368 1687 6.69

8 6/1/2007 Tok 291 1978 5.29

9 6/2/2007 Fairbanks 203 2181 3.69 2 Days here, Hoping to ride to the Arctic circle on of the days (200 mile round trip)

10 6/3/2007 Fairbanks <> Tok 202 2383 3.67 Tire Changes Happen This day

11 6/4/2007 Haines/Ferry 439 2822 7.98 Board the Ferry at 6 PM on 6/4

12 6/5/2007 Ferry

13 6/6/2007 Ferry 0

14 6/7/2007 Ferry

6/8/2007 Ferry Debark at 8 AM

Total 2822

Bellingham WA to Home

Ferry/Bellingham 0 0 Debark at 8 AM

15 6/8/2007 Bend 415 415 6.38

Reno 389 804 5.98

16 6/9/2007 Mammoth Lakes 167 971 2.57

17 6/10/2007 Kevin's 309 1280 4.75