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Day 31 of the ride, and I left Anchorage in the rain, a little puzzled to find myself heading home. The Glenn Highway spent the day showing me what home is made of: farm families handed a train ticket and a patch of mud in 1935, a valley that grows 100-pound cabbages, a glacier that explains the cabbages, and a night inside a giant wood stove. This is the Glenn Highway by motorcycle, 179 miles from Anchorage to Glennallen and then on toward Tok, Alaska. Along the way: the spirit houses of Eklutna, the old Glenn Highway and the original Knik River Bridge, a reindeer farm on the Bodenberg Loop, Palmer’s Depression-era colony and giant cabbages, the Matanuska Glacier, Sheep Mountain, Eureka Lodge, and a $35 dry campsite in Glennallen. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Mf3RjxJVCz8JA7kGHqvhnmJhPHiN3j8&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425. CHAPTERS 0:00 Day 31: Heading Home 1:17 Leaving Anchorage in the Rain 2:26 Eklutna Village and the Spirit Houses 4:02 Knik River 5:09 Old Glenn Highway and the Original Knik River Bridge 6:17 Bodenberg Loop and the Reindeer Farm 7:16 Boot Hill Auto Salvage and the Ferris Wheel 7:53 Palmer: The Colony, the Depot and the Locomotive 9:21 Palmer’s Giant Cabbages 11:14 Riding the Matanuska River 12:00 Glacier View and the Art Cars 12:47 Honey Stop and a Cappuccino 13:14 Matanuska Glacier 14:55 The Road Down to the Glacier 16:26 Caribou Creek and Sheep Mountain 17:09 Eureka Summit and Eureka Lodge 18:34 Nelchina Glacier Viewpoint 19:04 Into the Copper River Basin 19:29 Basin Liquor and The Paper Shack 20:03 Glennallen and a $35 Dry Campsite 20:43 Campfire Thoughts: A Return to My Origins 22:06 Building a Campfire 24:18 One Month on the Road 25:52 Back from Valdez, Heading North 26:16 A Fan Out of Gas 27:00 Toward Tok and the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains 28:12 Tok: Camping Inside a Giant Wood Stove 30:04 Closing Thoughts About the Episode Day 31 of my 45-day, 11,000-mile motorcycle ride from Bisbee, Arizona to Alaska and back, on a Ducati Multistrada V2. This episode follows the Glenn Highway out of Anchorage, through the Matanuska Valley and past the Matanuska Glacier, to Glennallen and Tok. My side trip to Valdez will be its own video. This series is sponsored by Rider Justice. #GlennHighway #AlaskaMotorcycle #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureMotorcycle #Alaska
Motorcycling the Glenn Highway in Alaska
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Ninety miles south of Anchorage, the road puts my own name on a sign. Sterling, Alaska sits where the Moose River meets the Kenai, and it’s the first town on this whole trip that was already waiting for me. But that wasn’t even the strangest thing this road had in store. By the end of the day, I was standing at the same spot on a gravel spit where I stood thirty-eight years ago, a twenty-year-old kid with no idea who he was going to become. This is the Sterling Highway, 142 miles across the Kenai Peninsula from Tern Lake Junction to Homer, at the literal end of the road. Along the way: salmon rivers packed with fishermen, Russian Orthodox churches more than a century old, a man who carves moose antler for a living, and a four-mile gravel spit pointing straight out into the bay. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1tKLj5ENSzPAXoEnExp8zPN3WOyTlyYg&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro: A Town With My Name on It 1:28 Welcome & Tern Lake Junction 2:32 The Kenai River Bridge & Drift Boats 3:54 Cooper Landing Museum 5:32 The Russian River & Kenai River Confluence 7:06 Kenai National Wildlife Refuge 7:51 Sterling, Alaska 9:57 The Antler Carver’s Gallery 13:17 Detour to Old Town Kenai 13:41 Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church 15:16 Chapel of St. Nicholas & Kenai Historical Society 16:18 The Bluff Above Cook Inlet 17:16 Wind South of Kenai 17:31 Ninilchik & the Church on the Hill 19:10 A Family in the Meadow 19:44 Anchor Point: Westernmost Point on the North American Highway System 21:12 Arriving in Homer 22:10 Riding the Homer Spit 23:23 Harbor, Fish Tacos & the Spit 24:50 The End of the Road 25:48 The Salty Dog Saloon 26:51 Closing: A Name on a Sign, a Past at the End of the Road About the Episode This is Episode 13 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska, about 6,000 miles into the ride. The Sterling Highway runs 142 miles across the Kenai Peninsula, from the turnoff south of Anchorage to the fishing town of Homer. This episode covers the full run in one wet, windy, wonderful day. The route follows the Kenai River from its glacial headwaters near Cooper Landing, where sockeye salmon return every summer in numbers that are hard to comprehend. It passes through the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1941 to protect the moose population, and into the town of Sterling. A detour to Old Town Kenai visits one of Alaska’s oldest Russian Orthodox churches, a National Historic Landmark since 1970. Farther south are the Russian Orthodox church above the water at Ninilchik, Anchor Point (where Captain Cook is said to have lost an anchor in 1778), and finally the Homer Spit, where this episode’s personal story comes full circle. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way. It covers the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Alaska #SterlingHighway #Homer #KenaiPeninsula
I Went Back to Homer After 38 Years| Sterling Highway in Alaska
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This Road Makes You Turn Around | The Seward Highway
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I broke camp this morning in the worst campsite of this entire trip, with mosquitoes so thick I could barely see my own tent. Tonight I’m sitting by a quiet river in Talkeetna, Alaska, in what might be the best campsite I’ve found on this whole journey. Three hundred and twenty-three miles lie in between. This is the George Parks Highway, from Fairbanks to Talkeetna, on day twenty-three of the ride from Arizona. Along the way: a gold camp coffee house with live music, a railroad town with a golden spike, the replica bus from Into the Wild, an abandoned concrete igloo, a bridge 250 feet over a gorge, a piano marking a turnoff in the middle of nowhere, and a small river town that reminded me of home. Map - https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=14Jq5VVpW2x7G6GHe-DS52QpBRt7wuM4&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro: Worst Campsite to Best 1:02 The George Parks Highway 2:05 Day 23: Breaking Camp & Mile Zero in Fairbanks 2:31 Ester Gold Camp 3:24 Flossie & May’s Coffee House 3:56 The Cheechakos: Alaska’s First Feature Film 4:34 The Malemute Saloon 6:00 Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn 7:49 Parks Highway Construction 8:16 Nenana & the Tanana River 8:57 Nenana Railroad Museum & the Golden Spike 10:40 Abandoned Alaska Railroad Car 11:08 Alaska Territorial Guard & the Taku Chief 12:00 These Girls Got Nuts 13:11 Nenana to Healy & the Rex Bridge 13:48 Piano Avenue & Rain in the Nenana Hills 15:09 Healy: The Into the Wild Bus 17:10 Denali RV Park 18:32 Morning Bike Check 19:05 Moody Bridge 19:40 Glitter Gulch & Black Bear Coffee House 20:57 Denali National Park Turnouts 21:52 Why You Can’t Ride Into Denali 23:08 Cantwell & the Old Denali Highway Decision 25:38 Mountain Views & Rain 26:12 Igloo City 27:04 Broad Pass 27:44 Hurricane Gulch Bridge 28:28 Wal Mike’s Trading Post 29:55 Coldest Ride of the Trip 30:15 Talkeetna: History & the Bush Pilots 32:49 Flooding & the Susitna River 33:49 Talkeetna River Park Campground 36:19 Talkeetna Is the Bisbee of Alaska 37:12 Closing: Worst Campsite to Best About the Episode This is Episode 11 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska. The George Parks Highway runs 323 miles between Alaska’s two largest cities, Fairbanks and Anchorage, and was finished in 1971. This episode follows it from Mile Zero in Fairbanks to Talkeetna. The route passes through Ester, a former gold camp with a coffee house and a saloon that has been rebuilt more than once. It continues through Nenana, home of the Alaska Railroad’s golden spike and the Nenana Ice Classic, then Healy, where a movie replica of the Into the Wild bus sits outside a brewery. Farther south are the entrance to Denali National Park, the abandoned Igloo City, Hurricane Gulch Bridge, and Talkeetna, a small river town at the foot of the Alaska Range that serves as the gateway for Denali climbers. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way. It covers the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Alaska #ParksHighway #Denali #Talkeetna
323 Miles in One Day | George Parks Highway, Alaska
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There was a date circled in my head before I ever left Arizona — June 21st, the longest day of the year, and a tiny town on the Yukon River called Circle that I was determined to reach right around it. Five thousand miles and six weeks later, I finally got there. And it turned out the date wasn't going to happen at the destination at all. It happened later, on the road, riding home under a sun that refused to set — and by the time it actually arrived, I was already back in my tent, whiskey in hand, toasting a goal I'd been carrying since before this whole trip began. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=15SRebk6xtUmnff0Iizul8kVyps1RTJg&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — Chasing a Date Since Arizona 1:15 Departure Prep, Fairbanks 2:30 Felix Pedro Monument 3:10 Chatanika Gold Camp 5:19 Poker Flat Research Range 7:16 Fish-Stocked Ponds & Cripple Creek Campground 8:53 Onto the Steese — Rain and Gravel 11:42 Twelvemile Summit — The Fortymile Caribou Herd 12:51 Deciding Whether to Push On 14:13 Eagle Summit 16:14 The Descent to Central 19:07 Skookum's Roadhouse, Central 21:40 Leaving Central for Circle 22:27 Nearing the Destination 23:37 Arriving in Circle — The Old Company Store 24:09 Rasmusson House & Downtown Circle 25:19 The Yukon River — End of the Road 25:35 Reflections at the River 28:31 Turning Back 29:05 Riding Under the Midnight Sun 29:57 Eagle Summit, Revisited 30:32 Cripple Creek Campground, Late Night 32:12 Midnight — June 21st Arrives 32:59 Closing — The Toast About the Episode This is Episode 10 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska, and the northernmost point of the entire six-week trip: Circle, Alaska, a small community on the Yukon River, reached via the Steese Highway out of Fairbanks. The goal was set before the trip even began — reach Circle around June 21st, the summer solstice, when the sun barely dips below the horizon this far north. Along the way: the Felix Pedro Monument, whose own dedication date was deliberately chosen to fall on a past solstice; the historic Chatanika Gold Camp; Poker Flat Research Range, the only university-owned rocket launch facility in the world; the recovery story of the Fortymile caribou herd; and Eagle Summit, one of the few places in Alaska where the sun doesn't set at all around the solstice. Circle itself was founded in 1893 as a supply point for the gold camps along Birch Creek, briefly the largest mining town on the Yukon before the Klondike Gold Rush emptied it out. Today it's home to fewer than a hundred people. This episode follows the ride out, a stop at the end of the road on the Yukon River, and the ride back — arriving at midnight, right as the solstice actually began, still on the road under a sun that never set. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Alaska #SteeseHighway #Circle #MidnightSun
Riding Alaska's Midnight Sun on the Longest Day of the Year | Steese Highway to Circle
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I'm sitting inside my own tent right now, fully dressed in riding gear — helmet, gloves, everything — doing hand-to-hand combat with more mosquitoes than I've ever seen in one place in my life. Two hundred miles back, there was a road everybody told me to take instead: the Dalton Highway, the bucket-list ride to Prudhoe Bay. I didn't take it. I took this one instead, toward a hot spring nobody I know has ever heard of, down a gravel road that very nearly put me on the ground in the rain. I'd do it again tomorrow. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1eVfN85J1I4CmfXdmgYYKxeVk5uyvoHw&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — Why I Skipped the Dalton Highway 1:12 Welcome & Pike's Landing 2:38 Golden Heart Plaza & Downtown Fairbanks 5:16 Gould Cabin & the Morris Thompson Visitor Center 6:14 Downtown Fairbanks — The Mecca 7:02 Fairbanks Community Museum 7:30 Why Not the Dalton Highway 8:06 Trans-Alaska Pipeline Viewpoint 9:33 Gold Dredge 8 & the Fox Den 10:16 Fox, Alaska 12:16 Talking Road Conditions & Mosquitoes 13:20 Turning Off the Dalton — Onto the Elliott 14:02 Minto Flats National Wildlife Refuge 15:06 Riding Under the Midnight Sun 15:54 Gravel, Tires & No Cell Service 16:37 Rain and Slick Gravel — The Final Miles 17:13 Arriving at Manley Hot Springs 17:20 The History of Manley Hot Springs 20:37 The Tanana River — End of the Road 21:49 Setting Up Camp in the Mosquitoes 25:09 The Soak — A Private Hot Spring Greenhouse 25:19 Reflections — Why I Chose This Road 28:29 Closing — Back to the Tent About the Episode This is Episode 9 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska. Out of Fairbanks, most riders head north on the Dalton Highway toward Prudhoe Bay — an iconic, well-documented bucket-list ride. This episode goes a different way: the Elliott Highway, a hundred and sixty miles of pavement and gravel ending at Manley Hot Springs, a remote settlement with one of Alaska's more colorful histories. Discovered by a prospector in 1902 and built into a lavish four-story resort by 1907, Manley Hot Springs briefly boomed into a town of five hundred to a thousand residents before a fire destroyed the resort in 1913 and the population crashed to just 29 people within a decade. Today it's a quiet, self-reliant community of about a hundred people, still home to a genuine natural hot spring, a private greenhouse soak, and a family-run resort rebuilt by hand from salvaged wood. Along the way: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Fox's gold-rush-era saloons and breweries, the Minto Flats National Wildlife Refuge, and a swarm of mosquitoes fierce enough to require full riding gear just to set up camp. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Alaska #ElliottHighway #ManleyHotSprings #Fairbanks
I Skipped the Dalton Highway for This Alaska Road Instead | Elliott Highway
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Not dried up over centuries — stopped, in four days, as a glacier upstream quietly decided to send its water somewhere else. I rode across what's left of it: a dead riverbed you could still call a river if you didn't know better. This is the last leg of the Alaska Highway, 372 miles from Whitehorse to Delta Junction, where the highway officially ends — mountains holding 17 of Canada's 20 highest peaks, a border crossing four episodes in the making, and the strangest, most modern piece of geology on the entire route. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1RF4yuVxK-rjlLCk8VB3Dd1ce2xMUEps&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — A River That Stopped Existing 1:19 Morning Camp, Whitehorse 1:59 The Overland Trail — Two Dawsons Explained 3:25 Takhini River Valley & Otter Falls Cutoff 5:03 Haines Junction & the St. Elias Mountains 5:51 The Village Bakery 7:39 Our Lady of the Way Catholic Mission 8:19 Kluane National Park Visitor Centre 9:10 The Slims River — A River That Stopped Existing 11:21 Destruction Bay 12:54 Burwash Landing 14:31 Meeting Tony 14:43 The Donjek River 16:14 Road Conditions & Wire Repairs 16:52 Tony's Breakdown 24:41 Leaving Camp — Toward Beaver Creek 26:18 Beaver Creek & Our Lady of Grace Church 27:12 Approaching the U.S. Border 27:40 The Alaska State Line 28:03 Keith & Carrie's Honda Grom 29:15 Crossing into the United States 29:21 Jim the Dog Musher 30:30 Improved Roads After the Border 31:22 Tetlin Junction & the Tanana River Bridge 32:11 Tok, Alaska 33:20 The Final Leg to Delta Junction 33:51 Robertson River — Ice in Summer 34:59 Johnson & Gerstle River Crossings 35:14 Delta Junction — The Official End of the Alaska Highway 36:05 Closing — Back to the Slims River About the Episode This is the final episode of the Alaska Highway chapter, covering 372 miles from Whitehorse to Delta Junction, where the highway officially ends and hands off to the older Richardson Highway for the run into Fairbanks. This stretch holds one of the strangest geological events documented anywhere in modern times: in May 2016, the Slims River, which had fed Kluane Lake for thousands of years, stopped flowing entirely over the course of four days, after retreating glacial meltwater found a steeper route into a different river system — sending its water to the Pacific Ocean instead of the Bering Sea. Geologists call it river piracy, and this is the first time it's ever been documented happening in real time, caused directly by modern climate change. Along the way: two Quonset-hut churches built from military surplus steel by resourceful priests, the St. Elias Mountains and Kluane National Park, Destruction Bay and Burwash Landing, a fellow rider's motorcycle breakdown on a remote stretch of gravel, and finally, the Alaska border — a milestone four episodes and thousands of miles in the making, ending at Delta Junction, Historic Mile 1422, the official end of the Alaska Highway. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #AlaskaHighway #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Yukon #HainesJunction #DeltaJunction #KluaneNationalPark
Disappearance on the Alaska Highway
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I found a couple still running the same gas station they were running when I passed through here on this exact same highway almost 40 years ago. This stretch of the Alaska Highway, from Coal River to Whitehorse, is where the road stops being just pavement and starts being a community — roadhouses that outlived their own reason for existing, a trapper who bought the first car in the Yukon with no roads to drive it on, and a forest of 80,000 signs that all say the same thing: somebody was here. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1T_aySaRXlygvnFEeWE9jDCGNmphbrYw&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — Contact Creek, 40 Years Later 1:25 Coal River Services 3:19 Whirlpool Canyon 4:41 Fireside — An Abandoned Roadhouse 6:39 Crossing into the Yukon 6:57 Contact Creek — History & the 40-Year Reunion 9:09 The 60th Parallel 11:06 Watson Lake — Air Force Lodge & Downtown 12:20 The Sign Post Forest 15:22 Junction 37 — Vanishing Roadhouses 17:50 Rancheria Lodge — Burned Down This Year 20:15 On Exploring Ruins Responsibly 21:06 The Continental Divide 21:54 Continental Divide Lodge 23:22 Swan Lake 23:59 Nisutlin Bay Bridge & Teslin 25:08 George Johnston — The First Car in the Yukon 28:00 Teslin Motel & Evening Camp 29:37 Reflections — Retracing an Old Trip 31:08 Johnson's Crossing & the Canol Road 33:52 Jake's Corner & the Robert Campbell Bridge 34:17 Arriving in Whitehorse 36:57 Downtown Whitehorse & the SS Klondike 38:03 Evening at the Motorcycle Campground 38:48 Closing — Back at Contact Creek About the Episode This is Episode 7 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska, roughly 10,000 miles over six weeks, continuing up the Alaska Highway from Coal River Services to Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon. This stretch is full of small, human history. Contact Creek marks the spot where the Alaska Highway's northern and southern construction crews finally met on September 24, 1942, and it's also where a chance reunion with the same gas station owners from a trip I made almost 40 years ago gave this whole episode its theme. Watson Lake's Sign Post Forest started with one homesick soldier's directional sign in 1942 and has grown to more than 80,000 signs today. And in Teslin, the George Johnston Museum tells the story of an Inland Tlingit trapper who bought the very first car sold in the Yukon in 1928 — despite there being no roads to drive it on — and turned it into a taxi, a winter hunting blind, and an ice-fishing shack. Along the way: the abandoned roadhouses of Fireside and Junction 37, the still-smoldering loss of Rancheria Lodge, the 60th Parallel marking the symbolic start of the "true North," and the Continental Divide, where rain falling on one side of the highway ends up in the Bering Sea, and on the other, the Arctic Ocean. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #AlaskaHighway #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Yukon #WatsonLake #Whitehorse #SignPostForest
He Bought the First Car in the Yukon with Nowhere to Drive It
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Eighty-four hours. That's how long it took a regiment of segregated Black soldiers to build a bridge I rode across in four seconds — and they didn't just meet a deadline, they bet their own paychecks on it. This is the first 500 miles of the actual Alaska Highway, Dawson Creek to Liard Hot Springs: bears on the shoulder, bison that don't move for anything, and a museum built because one man refused to let the road's own history get thrown in a pit and forgotten. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1UR5jx0SDjQn62umGoXpBviPenm1pXBM&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — The Sikanni Chief Bridge 1:07 Welcome & Channel Intro 1:36 Dawson Creek — Murals & Downtown 2:20 Dawson Creek Visitor Center 2:47 Dawson Creek Art Gallery (Old Grain Elevator) 3:13 Mile 0 — Two Markers 4:06 Leaving Dawson Creek 4:19 Kiskatinaw River Bridge 5:16 Taylor, BC & the Peace River Bridge 5:58 Fort St. John — Visitor Center & History 6:41 Fort St. John — Energetic City 7:36 Alaska Highway Road Conditions 7:58 Pink Mountain 8:45 Sikanni Chief River Bridge — 84 Hours, One Bet 9:59 Buckinghorse River Lodge 10:26 Trutch Summit 11:13 Road Hazards & Wildlife 11:58 First Bears of the Trip 12:25 The Trapper's Den, Prophet River 12:59 Fort Nelson Heritage Museum — Antique Cars 14:03 Marl Brown & the Museum's Origin Story 16:28 Triple G Hideaway Campground 17:18 Morning Camp & Chain Repair 18:00 Fort Nelson to Watson Lake — The Scenic Stretch 19:01 The Muskwa-Kechika Wilderness 20:02 Tetsa River Lodge — Cinnamon Buns 20:27 Stone Mountain Provincial Park 21:48 Summit Lake 22:57 Stone Sheep on the Highway 24:04 Road Construction & Permafrost 25:37 Racing River 26:31 Toad River 27:19 Folded Mountain & the Toad River Canyon 28:49 Muncho Lake 31:08 Wood Bison on the Highway 32:37 Liard River Suspension Bridge 33:57 Liard River Hot Springs 35:59 Closing — Back to the Sikanni Chief Bridge About the Episode This is Episode 6 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska, roughly 10,000 miles over six weeks — and the start of the actual Alaska Highway itself, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Liard Hot Springs, about a third of the full highway. This stretch is packed with wartime history. The Sikanni Chief River Bridge was built in just 84 hours by the segregated 95th Engineer General Service Regiment, who bet their own paychecks they could finish it in record time — becoming the first permanent bridge completed along the entire Alaska Highway corridor. The Kiskatinaw River Bridge, the first curved wooden bridge ever built in Canada, still stands as a preserved landmark. The Fort Nelson Heritage Museum exists because of one man, Marl Brown, who spent decades rescuing WWII-era equipment that road crews were simply abandoning in the woods. And the Liard River Suspension Bridge — the only one left on the entire Alaska Highway — was partly built from salvaged steel from the collapsed Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Along the way: the highest point on the Alaska Highway south of Fort Nelson, wood bison that refuse to move off the road, stone sheep licking salt off the asphalt, and Canada's second-largest natural hot springs at the end of the day's ride. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #AlaskaHighway #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #FortNelson #LiardHotSprings #MuskwaKechika
A Paycheck on the Line
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