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| Rolf Olsen | profile | all galleries >> Bicycle Tours >> Alaska/Canada 1999 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
Click here to view larger map Click here to download google Earth .kml file On this page you'll find photos from my solo bicycle ride from Anchorage, Alaska to Calgary, Alberta. The trip was completed during 42 consecutive days from July 4th to August 19th 1999. I bicycled up the Parks Hwy from Anchorage to Fairbanks, passing Broad Pass and the 6194 m high peak of Mt McKinley and then down the Richardson Hwy to Tok. From here I went north along the desolate Taylor Hwy and across the Alaska/Yukon border via Top of the World Hwy and on to Dawson City and the historic Klondike gold fields area. From here I continued south on the Klondike Hwy to Whitehorse and took a detour west on the Alaska Hwy to Haines Jct and down over the Chilkat Pass to Haines on the Pacific coast. I took the ferry to Skagway, admiring some of the highest coastal mountains in the world, and then pedalled up over White Pass, which many hopeful stampeders had to cross during the gold rush days. I then joined the Alaska Hwy again and went east to Watson Lake and then south along the Stewart-Cassiar Hwy, passing through the beautiful vast wilderness of British Columbia. At Meziadin Lake I took a short turn-off west to Stewart and Hyder, and further up to the impressive Salmon Glacier. I then returned to Meziadin Lake and continued east on the Yellowhead Hwy through Prince George and Jasper. Finally I traversed the majestic Icefields Parkway in the heart of the Rocky Mountains through Jasper and Banff National Parks and ultimately arrived in Calgary after 42 days and 5270 kilometers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Route map and profile |
 Turnagain Arm |
 Sunrise on the Seward Highway |
 Parks Highway |
 Looking south near Fairbanks |
 Welcome to Fairbanks |
 Alaska Pipeline - Tanana River crossing |
 Beginning of Taylor Highway near Tok |
 Sunset on the Taylor Highway |
 Taylor Highway at dusk |
 Looking north through endless boreal forest from Top of the World Highway |
 Top of the World Highway - near Alaska/Canada border crossing |
 Top of the World Highway - Alaska/Canada border crossing |
 Sunset viewed from Top of the World Highway |
 Sunset over Ogilvie Mountains |
 The Yukon River at Dawson City |
 The Klondike River |
 My camp site in Dawson City |
 Dawson City Main Street |
 Dawson City |
 Klondike Kate's in Dawson City |
 Beginning of the Dempster Highway |
 The Klondike Highway |
 View of the Yukon River from the Klondike Highway |
 Burned spruce forest on the Klondike Highway |
 Five Finger Rapids on the Yukon River |
 Going west on Alaska Highway towards Haines Junction |
 Haines Highway near Haines Junction |
 Dezadeash Lake - Haines Highway |
 Black bear on the Haines Highway |
 Near the summit of Haines Highway |
 Three Guardsmen Mountain viewed from Haines Highway |
 White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad line |
 Bernard Lake |
 Tutshi Lake |
 Tagish Lake |
 Tagish Road |
 Alaska Highway - Yukon Southern Lakes area |
 Alaska Highway - The Continental Divide |
 Needlenose Mountain on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway |
 Stewart-Cassiar Highway (Highway 37) |
 Sunrise at Meziadin Lake |
 Sunrise at Meziadin Lake |
 Bear Glacier |
 Bear Glacier terminus |
 Salmon in Fish Creek, Hyder AK |
 Bear in Fish Creek near Hyder, AK |
 Sunset over Salmon Glacier |
 Salmon Glacier from the summit of Salmon Glacier Road |
 Salmon Glacier panorama |
 Black bear on Yellowhead Highway |
 Me in front of Mount Robson |
 Ravens at Tangle Ridge |
 The Columbia Icefield - Athabasca Glacier |
 The Weeping Wall |
 Banff National Park |
 Peyto Lake |
 The Crowfoot Glacier and Bow Lake |
 Mount Rundle - Banff National Park |
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