... headed back to the "lower 48" in 1962 ... then the alcan highway was approximately 1,400 miles from tok junction to dawson creek, much of it still the original emergency construction cut through the yukon wilderness during the early stages of world war 2 ... when we made our trip eleven hundred miles of the alcan was an unpaved road, suitable mostly only for trucks with huge tires, so primitive that in the muddy spring conditions when we crossed into canada pa was advised to "wait a few weeks until there's less chance your car will be swallowed up" ... the section you see above was one of the better road surfaces ... car camping all the way, the ten days we spent negotiating the twists and turns, washed out sections, actual river crossings and treacherous mountain passes, all the while fending off huge furry hungry wild creatures and fighting mosquitos big enough that audubon should've included them in his book of birds, remains one of my life's greatest adventures ...