coop

I am starting this a bit early, since I have family coming into town and with the July 4 holiday, not sure I could get to it later.

Jim & I and a few others are headed to the Arctic Ocean or Bedford Sea in Northwest Territories of Canada. The trip includes a year around "haul road" (the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk highway) the Canadian government just opened last Sept/Oct. We will driving most of the Alaskan Highway, the North Klondike Highway, the Dempster Highway, the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk highway and the Top of The World Highway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...orial_highways. We will also see Denali National Park and I hope the mountain, Homer, Anchorage, Fairbanks and the Arctic Circle in Alaska and I hope more. Our total trip should be around 10K miles. One more thing, for a lot of this trip we will have close to 24 hrs of daylight.

jim Jeep and trailer are 95% ready, just a few things to do and my GX470 and trailer are also very close to ready.

This will be my 3rd trip on the Alaskan highway, first one was with my Mom & Dad & Aunt in 1983 in a new Mercury Grand Marquis station wagon. last one was 2014, still just as excite as the first time. My first time on the Dempster and Inuvik-Tuktoyuktuk. Most of our trip will be camping, with a hotel stay here and there.

Between Jim & I we hope to keep you up to date on our travels, but internet will only be at Canadian government campgrounds, places like a KOA and hotels, so there good be days with anything.

Emil St-Hilaire

coop

thanks

Legal Bill

Sounds fantastic! Have a great trip. I'm looking forward to the photos. Please provide your assessment of the roads vis-a-vis S2000 drivability.

boltonblue

Drive careful,
I can't imagine a moose avoidance test pulling a trailer.

Lainey

10K in mileage! Have a great time!! Safe travels to all.

jukngene

Bill, this is a Jeep trip. No S2000's allowed!

Legal Bill

Really? 10,000 miles of off roading?

coop

thanks everyone, we hope to be very safe, just can never tell about others.

For the most part it will be paved roads, but the 2 haul roads are gravel and also muddy at times. So maybe a couple of thousand miles in muddy rocky roads.

I would drive an S2000 or my SLK up to Whitehorse on the Alaskan Highway.

Matt_in_VA

I inadvertently went off roading in my S after the Tom Catt Run. I visited a long time friend in Indiana and did not want to drive the 630 miles back home in one day. So, I used some Hilton points to split the trip up on the way back home. I spent the night in Mineral Wells, WV at a Hampton Inn. Last Wednesday, my Garmin GPS that I have set to avoid unpaved roads wanted me to go North on I-77 then East on RT 50. But I wanted to drive on some back roads in WV where the speed limit is 55 MPH and even in an S2000 one can only do that about 20 % of the time. So I headed south out of Mineral Wells knowing that I would need to make a left hand turn to head east. My Garmin told me to make a left on a road that was paved for the first several miles, that then turned into gravel. The next road was worse and went from gravel to tire tracks through the woods. By then, I was so far in that it did not make sense to turn around and go back. Besides, there was no place to turn around. Then it turned into rocks and I had to be careful to not rip off the oil pan. The road was so rough that my dash cam fell off of the windshield and I was afraid to stop to put it back up for fear of getting stuck in the mud. So I do not have any images of just how much off roading I did. I finally made it to paved highway again and was rewarded with some really fun driving in the hills of WV with some truly fun roads that are perfect for an S-2000.

P.S. Have a safe and fun trip