I did them both in 2005 and I did it alone on a honda XL650L I left Fairbanks on Monday morning and made it to Coldfoot after a day of riding in the rain. The next day I rode in rain again to Deadhorse and stayed over night and met a guy that had ridden up from Fairbanks in one day. It was July 4th and the temperature was 32 degrees so cold and slippery with the mud and the truck traffic. The next day rode back to Fairbanks in one day in rain till about Coldfoot. The next day from Fairbanks to Dawson City over the top of the world highway and then the next day from Dawson city to Eagle Plains where the rain really started. The next day up to Inuvik. The next day back to Dawson City so a lot of miles on a XR650L in that many days. I was short of time so had to do it that way but both are great rides. The ferry crossings the Mountain range crossings, the pipeline, the working city of Deadhorse, the musk ox lots of wildlie everywhere. Not bad for bugs if you are moving but if you need to stop they can get bad. I really can not answer your question of which one is best so do both. I have several friends that went to the artic circle on both of these roads and will never get the chance to go back and be able to say they did it. This summer I am going to do Nordcap in Norway with the wife as she has never crossed the circle before and it is worth it.

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Larry Davis