X5 on the Dalton Highway in March - am I nuts?

[teffi71]

Friday is my start day!
You can follow my trip either on facebook search for PO2BS (Pacific Ocean to Beaufort Sea overland expedition) or on my blog at Stefan on tour.
Here is my schedule:
Mar 15, 2013 Campbell CA I-5
Mar 16, 2013 Grants Pass OR I-5
Mar 17, 2013 Seattle WA I-5 / Trans Canada Highway
Mar 18, 2013 100 Miles House BC Caribou Highway
Mar 19, 2013 Dawson Creek BC Alaska Highwy
Mar 20, 2013 Fort Nelson BC Alaska Highwy
Mar 21, 2013 Watson Lake YT Alaska Highwy
Mar 22, 2013 Whitehorse YT Klondike Highwy
Mar 23, 2013 Dawson City YT Dempster Highway
Mar 24, 2013 Eagle Plains NWT Dempster Highway
Mar 25, 2013 Fort McPherson NWT Dempster Highway
Mar 26, 2013 Inuvik NWT Ice Highway
Mar 27, 2013 Tuktoyaktuk NWT Ice Highway
Mar 28, 2013 Tuktoyaktuk NWT
Mar 29, 2013 Tuktoyaktuk NWT Ice Highway
Mar 30, 2013 Inuvik NWT Ice Highway
Mar 31, 2013 Fort McPherson NWT Dempster Highway
Apr 1, 2013 Eagle Plains NWT Dempster Highway
Apr 2, 2013 Dawson City YT Dempster Highway
Apr 3, 2013 Whitehorse YT Klondike Highwy
Apr 4, 2013 Watson Lake YT Alaska Highwy
Apr 5, 2013 Fort Nelson BC Alaska Highwy
Apr 6, 2013 Dawson Creek BC Alaska Highwy
Apr 7, 2013 100 Miles House BC Caribou Highway
Apr 8, 2013 Seattle WA I-5 / Trans Canada Highway
Apr 9, 2013 Grants Pass OR I-5
Apr 10, 2013 Campbell CA I-5

Let's see if my planing for my very first single handed overland expedition is anywhere close to reality ...

Thanks for all your advise and support!

Cheers,
Stefan

[motordavid]

Wow!
Looking forward to following you on your trip...
I would have voted for 'summer'.
Good Luck, mD

Yukon Territory, in High Summer Mid-June...

[JCL]

Should be fun. MD, you are sugarcoating it!

Here is a highway cam shot of Highway 97 today, near Dawson Creek. This is a few days drive south of the Yukon border.

Let us know how it goes.

[Bayerische E53]

I'm very jealous. Have fun out there and be safe!

Happy motoring!

PS. When I posted a while back (about the windscreen protection film) I didn't think you were this serious about it! Are you doing this trip alone? Christ, I wish I would have known 3 or 4 months ago - one of the trips I've always wanted to do was to go up to Prudhoe Bay in the X5. I would have loved to meet up with you in Oregon and do an X5 tandem all the way up and back!!!

[Sylvan Lake V35]

Dawson Creek is getting pounded with snow right now. But at least it is staying well below freezing so the hiways won't get too slippery when it thaws during the day and freezes again when the sun goes down is when things get scary.

[teffi71]

Hi there -

I am staying for the night in Quesnel, BC, and should make it to Dawson Creek, BC, tomorrow, if the weather is on my side ... we will see ...

[teffi71]

Just wanted to let you all know that I made it to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada without any issue in the X5.
Now, I just have to make the return ...

Have you checked out my bloghttp://teffi71.blogspot.com/ or my facebook page called PO2BS yet?

[JCL]

Congratulations! Looks like you have had great weather. I read your linked blog, and watched some of the videos. When you came through the tunnel into Vancouver, downtown at Coal Harbour (don't stop on the bike boxes or drive straight through the bike lane right turns next time.....), the Port Mann bridge, Hope, Dawson Creek, and Whitehorse, all very familiar territory.

Your better mileage when you crossed north of the border probably has more to do with the reduced ethanol in our gasoline.

Good luck on the drive south. Hope that weather holds for you.

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by teffi71

Just wanted to let you all know that I made it to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada without any issue in the X5.

Congrats! I would not have tried in an X5, but you've certainly had success!

[motordavid]

Very cool blog!
The locals must think you look like an apparition, driving into towns.
Good Luck on the rest of your trip!
BR, mD