The Dalton Highway would be the main route that we would look to take for the majority of the trip. Its is a 360 mile haul road from Prudhoe Bay to the Yukon River. The road was built in 1974 using 32 million cubic yards of gravel, the pipeline parallels this primitive dusty track for a large part of its journey towards the port of Valdez.Due to the nature of this route it seems difficult to find companies willing to rent vehicles. With the road mainly dominated with large speeding trucks and tankers kicking up clouds of dust and debris, this seems a fair point. In time Im sure we will come across a rental company that will allow such a trip.
From looking over the route and reading about it, it is advised to load a vehicle up with many supplies, extra fuel, food, CB radio and tires. Also the factor of keeping a clean campsite with food at least a quarter of a mile away from camp with the high factor of a grizzly bear crossing our path.
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