revised plan
I'm coming in to BC from the east. It appears like the best route to Tuk then may be to go to Vancouver Island, then take the ferry to Prince Rupert and start there. Its saves a lot of km riding north and is NOT that expensive.
From posts here it looks the main dirt road begins on the Dempster at Dawson City - I'm having tires shipped to me, so I'd change tires there. And once again when I get back from Tuk.
I'd most likely book a hotel in Inuvik and do a day trip to Tuk and back. Assuming the weather is ok (I understand this is a big assumption) how much time should one assume for the ride from Dawson City to Inuvik? 774 km according to google maps. Aprox 250 km a day? So like 3 or 4 days?
Prince Rupert to Dawson City - looks like 5 days at least. Maybe 6 again depending on weather and road conditions...So total days to plan for, from Prince Rupert = 8 to 11 days one way. Is this reasonable?
I have 2 gas tanks on my F800gs for a total of 23L plus 2 6L gas bags that tie onto the crash bars. This should be adequate. Comments?
Once I start heading south, the time frames become less critical as the weather will hopefully start to warm up. I'm looking at being in Vancouver on or about July 2 - there's a ferry on the 3rd. This time frame seems good. Comments most welcome.
All roads lead south after this, to Central America where I plan to take a break for a while in Panama, get the bike serviced, learn some Spanish, and then take on South America.
Learned a LOT on my eastern trip. The weather was terrible. Highway 389 north from Baie Comeau was a lot of dirt riding, at least 200 km, and lots of that in the pouring rain with temperatures hovering around 3 degrees.
I hope the weather north is a little better.
The next search, doing it right now is on fires to see if this path north is even open.
Any and all comments, suggestions are welcome. And I believe this post makes a little more sense.
Thanks.
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