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Praise for earlier editions of The Alaska Highway: An Insiders Guide
Alaskans are travelers by nature, drawn to the vast openness of our glorious state. Ron offers so much more than a how-to guide and road map of Alaska. He captures the essence of the unique places we call homefar beyond the highway to the trails, dirt roads, and campgrounds. He will make you long for a full tank of gas and days, or a lifetime, to explore the Great Land.
Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska
Dalby has been there. Just about anywhere in Alaska that you might choose to talk about. Dalbys trips along the Alaska Highway and his knowledge of his state give him the right to name his book An Insiders Guide.
The Mature Traveler
The Alaska Highway: An Insiders Guide can provide all the seeds for adventure youll ever need without leaving your driveway. I like the way the book has been divided into one-day trips, with a length of highway that can be covered without pushing it.
Newsday
Ron Dalby is one of those few people who talk like they write. A guidebook to driving the Alaska Highway that is no sterile set of maps and pointers, with its meandering side trips and intentional focus away from the cities, this might be considered an off-the-beaten-track look at Alaska.
The Los Angeles Times
Dalbys Insiders Tips are those of a seasoned Alaskan. He provides a host of practical tips.
Family Motor Coaching
Written by a native of the state, this paperback is a comprehensive guide for those interested in making the great driving adventure north.
Trailer Life
Ron Dalby gives you all the information you need to prepare for the trip.
San Diego Tribune
Here is a book that will be enjoyed by the first-time visitor as well as the repeater.
Arizona Mobile Citizen
Ron Dalby has done a wonderful job of providing a real picture for the highway traveler. This book provides the kind of detailed information necessary to ensure an enjoyable trip. A must for anyone planning to travel the Alaska Highway.
Susan C. Kemp, former Executive Director
The Great Alaska Highways Society
To Chris Dalby, who rests forever in the Yukon near our favorite fishing hole.
Guide to the Alaska Highway
Copyright 2011 by Ron Dalby
All rights reserved
Published by Menasha Ridge Press
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Printed in China
Second edition, first printing
Cover design by Travis Bryant and Grant Tatum
Text design by Grant Tatum and Annie Long
Cover photograph by Ron Dalby
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Dalby, Ron, 1949
Guide to the Alaska Highway / Ron Dalby. -- 2nd ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89732-926-2
ISBN-10: 0-89732-926-0
1. AlaskaGuidebooks. 2. Alaska Highway Guidebooks. 3. Automobile travelAlaska Highway Guidebooks. 4. Northwest, CanadianGuidebooks.
I. Title.
F902.3.D354 2011
917.980452--dc22
2010053626
Menasha Ridge Press
P.O. Box 43673
Birmingham, Alabama 35243
www.menasharidge.com
Ron Dalby grew up on the American road. He was but a year old in 1950 when he made his first trip down the Alaska Highway. Throughout the rest of his formative years, he crisscrossed the United States countless times as his father, a career Army officer, moved from assignment to assignment.
The urge to travel Americas roads never left him. Annual forays in his RV have led from his home in Alaska to as far away as Florida and almost everywhere in between. The RV is a perfect match for his itchy foot, and over the years he has owned or used one of every type available.
Dalby has worked as a writer and editor for nearly three decades, both as a freelancer and on the staff of various publications. He served as editor of Alaska Magazine during the most successful period in its long history and has authored thousands of newspaper and magazine articles and five books. His most successful book, The Alaska Highway: An Insiders Guide , though out of print for nearly a decade, was still in demand on Amazon.coms used book list. That old revised edition from the early 1990s has been replaced with this Guide to the Alaska Highway . All of his writings are illustrated by photos he has taken himself.
As a young adult, Dalby served two tours as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and later worked in Alaska as a military test pilot. He has made dramatic rescues of injured climbers on Mount McKinley and flown thousands of hours throughout the wilderness of Alaska, both in the military and as a civilian pilot.
He has been married for 40 years to the former Jennifer Durland of Milwaukie, Oregon. She shares his love of travel and adventure and has more than once picked up on stories he might otherwise have missed. They have two grown children, Eric and Tiffany, four granddaughters, and a grandson.
This book, like most others, has a single name on the cover as the author.
However, just about anyone who has ever written a book will tell you that an author has a lot of help. Without that help, there wouldnt be many books.
Starting with the first edition of this book, which came out in 1991, Ive been helped along the way by people of every description.
Certainly those thousands of people Ive met along the Alaska Highway in the past 39 years contributed in some waylarge or smallto this book. Even if I could remember all of their names, there isnt space to list them here. Without these people the Alaska Highway would just be another road. Let it suffice to say that Ive never had a negative experience with any of the people met along the road in Canada and Alaska. And if the highlight of any travel experience is the people you meet, these folks make my travels along the Alaska Highway the grandest experiences of my life.
The one person I cant get away from listing by name is my daughter, Tiffany. As a teenager she kept the running logs and notes as I drove some 6,000 miles of often less-than-perfect roads. Now, as an adult and a competent writer/editor in her own right, she edited Dads copy and in general provided the push needed to get this book into the hands of the people who need and want to read it. She is truly the one person besides the author who brought this book to reality.
Finally, there is my wife, Jennifer. She puts up with a lot (me) without ever losing her sense of humor or sense of adventure.
I first saw the Alaska Highwaythen almost universally known as the Alcanin August 1950, from the backseat of a two-door, black Studebaker Champion. Being 13 months old at the time, I remember absolutely nothing of the trip, though over the years my mother has assured me that I had a great time.
Undoubtedly my great time came at her expense. Dad did the driving; mother wrestled with my tantrums, diapers, and anything else that came up. This, too, was before the advent of functional disposable diapers, so I suppose her chores were the toughest of the lot.
At any rate, we succeeded in reaching Nebraska so I could meet my grandparents and in plenty of time for the birth of my brother. Yes, indeed, mother must have had quite a trip, being eight months pregnantin those days, doctors were even farther apart than gas pumps. Campgrounds were wide spots on the road or gravel pits created by the building of the highway, and help in the event of an emergency was usually a long distance away.
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