Trip Summary
For those of you interested in trip statistics, here is our summary.
We kept a map of our route and camp locations. Each day of travel is marked with a different color on the map.
Date left home: July 8, 2024
Total miles: 13,687 miles
Days out: 85
Campsites: 48
Nights in a hotel: 5 (2-Fairbanks, AK; 1-Soldotna, AK; 1-Fairbanks, AK; 1-Rocky Mountain House, AB)
Eagle Plains, YT Pumping Gas
Exchange rate: for gas prices conversions I used 1.3C$/US$
Most Expensive gas we purchased: Eagle Plains, Yukon 6.83 US $/Gallon
Most expensive gas we saw: Tuktoyaktuk, NT 7.23 US$/G (we did not purchase)
Least expensive gas purchased: White Hall, Montana 3.259 US $/Gallon
Number of gas stops: 74 (We tried to stay above 1/2 tank)
Number of times we needed gas from our jerrycan: 1 Near Chicken, Alaska
Accidents and mishaps:
1) Due to the short cable from the Jeep to the trailer and a sharp turn (yes I jackknifed the trailer while backing) the wires pulled out of the 6 wire plug
2) A shattered back window in the Jeep.
Photos Take D: 11,343
Photos Taken K: 3,353
Animals seen: To be included on the list they had to be alive and unconfined. While I know many of the animals listed here, others I looked up on PictureThis. A few, like chipmunks, bushy tailed woodrat, big brown bat, etc, were our best guess. There are links below to photos of several of the animals that were posted as Photos of the Week (POTW). One animal was only felt. That one is in italics. Look for it below.
Arctic fox
Bear (black, grizzly)
Bees (Fuzzy-horned bumble bee, so many species of bees)
Bat (probably big brown)
Birch shieldbug (type of stinkbug)
Butterfly (black-eyed blue, checkered white, common wood nymph, green-veined white, green comma, orange sulfur, small heath, western tiger swallowtail, white admiral, northern checkerspot)
Bison (plains, wood)
Bonaparte's gull
Canada geese
Canada jay
Chipmunk (uinta, least)
Cicada killer (probably)
Clark's nutcracker
Crow
Deer (mule, white tail)
Damselfly and Dragon fly (Common blue, White faced meadow hawk, )
Duck (loon, gadwell, teal, harlequin, mallard)
Eagle (bald, golden)
Elk
Fly (black, horse)
Fox (gray)
Frogs & toads (bullfrog, western toad)
Grebe (red necked)
Grouse (ruffed, spruce)
Gull (short billed, kittiwake, cormorants )
Hummingbird (rufus)
Junco (dark eye)
Leafhopper (coppery)
Magpie
Marmot
Merlin
Mouse (trailer mouse! It ran across my face while I was sleeping, vole, bushy-tailed woodrat)
Moose (Yukon)
Mosquito
Mountain goat
Orca
Otter (river, sea)
Owl (Northern pygmy- heard only)
Prairie dog (black-tailed)
Pronghorn
Porcupine
***Ptarmigan Willow (Most humorous call even at 3:31 a.m.)
Raven
Salmon (chum (dog)), sockeye (red), humpback (pink), coho (silver)
Sandhill cranes
Says phoebe
Seals (harbor)
Sheep (Dall, Big horn)
Short-billed gull
Snake (western terrestrial garter)
Spider (Dark fishing)
Spotted sandpiper
Squirrel (American red)
Starlings
Steller's jay
Swanson's thrush
Swallow (bank, tree)
Turkeys
Varied thrush
Vulture
***Warbling vireo (Most entertaining in flight)
Whale (Beluga)
White pelicans
White throated swift
White spotted sawyer beetle
Wolf (gray) Gray is the species designation but they can be other colors)
Woodpecker (red-naped sap sucker)
Northern most point: Tuktoyaktuk, NT
Return Home: October 1, 2024
Number of days it rained on us: Many