Went to the Arctic Circle. Traveled five hours each way just for this picture.
The Dalton Hwy, the road to the top of the world, stretches from north of Fairbanks to Deadhorse at Prudhoe Bay. Over 400 miles of mostly gravel road. It was built mainly to haul construction supplies for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in 1974. The pipeline follows the highway for the northern half of its journey. This road crosses the only bridge over the Yukon River. It also has only 3 places to buy gas and 2 places to get tires repaired. We traveled with a 10 gallon gas can in our trunk and a spare.
The terrain changed and became more tundra like. But the temperature was still 63 degrees. We expected it to be colder. Altho, Fairbanks temperature has been real warm 80-82 degrees. No sun was seen today, mainly because of the area fires. The radio called it "smoke covered sun" and the sky was hazy all day. I guess this is common to have fires thru out the season. It smells like a huge camp fire.
It took a lot of photos of the pipeline. It is so amazing. Of course the question becomes, how many pictures do you need of a long pipe??? I now have over 60!
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