USA
Overhead panorama : so cool!
Totally natural experience
Angels Landing from the river bed
Sat for 30 minutes looking at that view
1400′ above the river bed
Not everyone was holding the chain
Path carved in the face of cliffs
Good morning dear hiker
Easy fix after adjusting brake lines
Front fork friction damage
Looks cool
Changing rear disc
I was getting warm
Road was carved in rock riding in Arizona
Unidentified building
Big alien
Area 51
Cactus field
Watch out for wild cows
Lone trees
Good camping spot in the middle of nowhere
Wild horses
Gnarly rocks
Welcome to the desert
Tenaya Lake
10 000 feet elevation
Wildfire nests
Good spot for a nap
El Capitan
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz beach
Silicon Valley
Golden Gate
Wildfire smoke
Justin
Redwood
Fog
Sea Lions Cave
100′ above water
Victoria
Low tide
I had to take a picture
Washington coast
Alaska
First front flat tire
Skagway – Broadway St.
Cool bus
Steam engine
Wood stove for passenger comfort
Old car
Railroad was sculpted in the rack walls in various locations
Laurence at the end of the trail
Mirror lake
Emerald lake – notice the color variations in the lake
Mark
Defective switch swaped
Waiting for P-A at the airport
John and Sarah
Kluane
Cozy
Room for the night
White part is not a cloud
Valdez
Can you see the move there?
Thompson’s pass
Jewelry shop
Larry with the rocks
Cool rocks
Cutting the rock
Glacier covered in rocks released when melting
Artifacts
Old bunkhouse and other buildings
Blacksmith inventory
Old wooden box piece
Looking down into Jumbo mine
Concentrated copper ore
Inside the tunnel
Tunnel up the hill and small rock wall
Old blacksmith work table
Old transport system for copper ore buckets
Kennecott
Power house steam boilers
That looks familiar
Ammonium leeching tanks
Cam in original oil bath: the same you have in your modern engines…
Crusher
Super safe work environment
Kennecott
It was built in the Alaskan winter
5 DOF supports
48″ diameter + fire insulation
Glacier
New seals
New chain and sprockets
Back together and ready to go
Not as bad
Oh man
Good setup for a rainy day
Morgan and Eva wanted to sign the map
Cool looking streams
Going back down with 2 new friends
Morgan
View from the top
1h to winter
Chlling goats
Exit Glacier
Halfway up
Resurrection Bay (Seward)
Head shot (notice the grey head)
Not a good idea to go swimming with all of my gear on…
Red salmons
Fishermen drifting down the river
Did not catch any 40lbs salmon
Nice camping spot by the Kenai River
Delicious halibut fish and chip
Homer strip by the port
End of Homer
Bay before Homer
W?
I couldn’t get farther west
Sarra
The Sun Auto Repair crew
Broken luggage rack
Frank
Are they trying to hide?
They look locked too
McKinley behind the clouds
Reindeers
Reindeer
Wonder why I don’t like bus tours?
Grizzlies
Grizzlies
Dall sheeps
First caribou of the day
Moooose
McKinley out far
Picture of John taking a picture
Having fun playing cards
…and my front fender extension
Dalton ate my brake pads
Out and back from Prudhoe bay
Coldfoot village (gas station)
1am
You think you saw mosquitoes before?
Muskox
Mobile homes on skis
Snow truck army
Cool snowmobile
Arctic gear
Well heads
Hey Arctic Ocean
Pipe section without insulation
Mobile drilling plant
Workers camps
Power station for the whole thing
Just pipes everywhere
Mile 0 of our friend the pipeline
Atigun Pass – 4500ft
Pipeline we followed all the way up
View from campground
Arctic circle – almost 24h daylight at that point
Gas siphon
They would not sell gas to Nate so we transferred some from my tanks
Dirt around the corner – mile 0 of the 415 miles highway
Campground for three nigths
Canada
Long Beach
Turbo surf boards
I kept looking in my rear-view mirrors…
Olga feeling much better and ready to go
100$ worth of toggle swtich
Maintenance day about to start
Just the most berries
We did not need to tie them down
Nanaimo
Leaving Vancouver
Damaged bottle opener
Melody signed the map for BC
Lonely 6
Whistler village
Whistler Blackcomb
Rental bikes
Am I already in Nevada?
Smoke
He particularly liked the background
Olivier signed the map still half asleep
Big fish
Underwater shot
Boya Lake
Start of Hwy 37
Drying tent mesh
1h30am and it looks like a sunset
For my friend Robert
It says KTM on it…
The Pit: Coolest bar in town
Dawson City
Dawson mining
Wooden hull
Steam boiler
Mairin
Klondike
SourToe
Olga anniversary
Nuns having fun
Kick start?
Fuel injection 1943
Grandpa bison
Hats
Mountain Goats
Curved bridge
Michelle and P-A
Bones picture taken by Nate
Moraine Lake
Columbia Glacier
Lake Louise
Lake Louise
Natural bridge
Natural bridge
Takkakaw Fall
Twin Falls
First Grizzly
Downtown Calgary
Stampede Park
Guy feeding prairie dogs
Now that’s a trophy
Actual fossil lab
Black Beauty T-Rex
Black beauty
Really cool colors for a fossil
Never seen those before
Hoo doo
Small snake
24 hour cactus flower
Tallest tepee in the world
Fields
Kenora
Bike rave in Ottawa
My brother and sister outdid themselves to complete the 135km under the rain!
Arrival at Olympic Stadium
Captain Ben
Helicopter
Arriving in Montreal
Hard to picture a rainbow
Barking across Canada
Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge in Wnnipeg
Cheap camping spot out of Sudbury
My great friend Martin signed my map for Ontario under the name of their group: High Waters
New couple on the block
Great day on the beach
Winning!
Support crowd
Marc-André and Maurie were very helpful during my preparation. They are expecting their first baby boy in November!
Family portrait
My dad signing for QC
My mom signing for QC
Mountain bikes?
Rookies
Montreal Olympic Stadium
Old vs. new
Custom wheel alignment stand
Shakedown Trip
Manic 5
Mont Wright iron ore mine
Fermont
They get twice as big
My hosts Marcel and Sylvie
Cool guy!
Iron ore mine in Labrador City
Artificial wall for water reservoir
I guess people are too busy to stop and relieve themselves
Eleanora and I in front of the B&B
Cool iceberg
What’s that white, icy, floaty thing behind?