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Pete:

To answer your question, our first trip up the Alcan was in 1973 in a pickup and camper and there was 1200 miles of gravel between Fort Nelson and the Alaska border. The highway in Alaska was paved and was worse than the gravel roads in Canada.

Both the Alcan and the Cassiar are paved now and are good roads. We have taken our coaches up the Alcan and would do it again without hesitation. We take the pickup and camper now because we don't need the coach in alaska and the pickup and camper gives us better overnight access to remote spots. We have children at Wasilla with an empty bedroom and it alleviates the need for the coach.

The roads are limited in Alaska and other than the main highways, they get primitive in a hurry. The coach is not a good solution for offroad destinations as it is not a good solution for forest service campgrounds in the lower 48. It is sort of like trying to put a quart and a half in a one quart jar.

When we travel in the coach, we tow a 4X4 all the time and we park the coach in an adequate spot and punish the 4X4 to satisfy our never ending curiosity.

I would not hesitate to take our coach to Alaska again if we had any need for it up there.

I hope this answers your question.

Arctdude:

You said your trip was 11 years ago. The roads are much different today. However, primitive, muddy, rocky, back country roads are still just that.