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wrote in message ... On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:31:49 -0800, "Bill McKee" wrote: I guess we just look for dirt roads. The most interesting things are at the end of one ;-) That was one reason why we liked South Dakota so much. In the Black Hills there are hundreds (thousands?) of miles of logging roads. We put 2300 miles on a 4WD Suburban in 3 weeks, probably half in the dirt. I did take some back dirt roads, but they were not 4x4 required. Maybe if there was rain, but I think most of AK is gravel and rock. There are so many glacial moraines that they can gravel coat a road easily. I agree, I suppose I was generalizing when I said dirt. They were mostly rock, in Alaska and in the Dakotas. We didn't really use the 4wd more than a couple times in the Dakotas, and only because we had it. In Alaska we did fine with a 2wd. We figured out if you just fast idle along a road like that you do not startle wildlife and you can drive right up to all sorts of things.We came up on a family of black bears on a particular road we liked around Coopers Landing in the Kenai that were just mildly interested as we drove up them at about a walking pace. We looked at each other for a few minutes and went our separate ways. I was mad that my camera was out of film but that is always the way it goes isn't it? We saw the only porcupine I have ever seen on that road too. This lake is on that road http://gfretwell.com/ftp/alaska/Kenai%20Lake.jpg I just realized that is most likely Kenai Lake. |
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