Tuesday June 17th 2008 We are off up the Alaska Highway or ALCAN Highway tomorrow.

We are off up the Alaska Highway or ALCAN Highway tomorrow. We made the traditional visit to milepost zero in the heart of Dawson Creek. As we make our way north everything is measured by it's distance from this post.

The road was built during World War II and connects the Continental U.S. to Alaska through Canada. It runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon. Completed in 1943, it is 2,237 kilometres or 1,390 miles long. Built in only 8 months by10,607 U.S. soldiers through rugged, unmapped wilderness. It was heralded as a near impossible engineering feat. Many likened it to the building of the Panama Canal.
To begin with the road was only intended to be passable for “ all terrain vehicles” and was often just a bed of logs.
















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