From Anchorage to Ushuaia by Bike

Monday afternoon, Didier dropped us after Whitehorse. Once out of town, we took the Alaska Highway. We only biked 25km and stopped in the first Yukon government campground at Marsh Lake.

On Tuesday, we biked 85km with a light tail wind and some showers, to Jonsons Crossing.

Wednesday was a day full of encounters and culture. We met 3 cyclists who were going to Prudhoe Bay (extreme North of Alaska): one from England (Cazy), one from Switzerland (Florent) and one from California (Jack). When we arrived in Teslin, we went to visit a museum about the history and the culture of Tlingit people, native population of the region. After all these breaks, we finally put our tent 10 km after Teslin.

Thursday was a long day: 115km in 7H15 on the saddle. At the beginning we had planned “only” 100km, but when we got to Swift River, the motel and the restaurant were closed for sanitary problems. So at 7pm we had to keep going to the next place, called Continental Divide. We arrived at 8pm exhausted! We did not pinch our tent that night; we took a room at the motel: we had a real bed, a bathroom and a tv … with no mosquitoes and no worry about putting our food away because of bears!

Friday, our bodies were very tired from the previous day: our legs did not want to move, our knees hurt … So we decided to go to the next lodge: 18km away! We put our tent next to the river Rancheria, a nice place! We even heard a moose crossing the river when we were trying to sleep. We did not dare to get out of our tent but now we regret it: the footprints were so huge!
Saturday was a big day, 98km, to get to the Cassiar Highway where we spent a day of rest (Sunday).

Now we have to decide:

• Take the Cassiar Highway, very scenic, with not a lot of traffic, but a lot of bears. There are not a lot of services on the last 400km, which makes us hesitate.
• Continue on the Alaska Highway with more traffic, more services, more kilometers … and some bears!