For our return trip from Alaska we decided to take the official Alaska Highway, some 1400 miles from Delta Junction, AK to Dawson Creek, BC then back to the US by way of Alberta and into Montana, to check out the Canadian Rockies. All together it would end up being 2,400 miles. Since this was going to be such a long drive we decided to break the trip up with a few stopovers to do some hiking, and ended up taking almost two weeks...

The road to Alaska is a long one, we never thought it would be a short trip by any stretch of the imagination but it still ended up taking longer than anticipated.  Plans on this trip seem to change daily and our route to Alaska was not immune to our ‘whichever way the wind blows’ travel planning technique. Originally we planned to travel through the Canadian Rockies to the Alaskan Highway and northward, however somehow we found ourselves in the Washington Cascades and needed to do some alternative route finding...