Alaska Roadhouse Run: The Valdez to Fairbanks Trail
Dennis Bible
July 6, 2012
(This story was published in the July 2012 issue of Rider magazine.) Story and photos by Dennis Bible When gold was discovered in the 1890s in the Klondike and later in Fairbanks, one of the fastest ways for prospectors to get to the gold fields was a steamship ride from San Francisco or Seattle to Valdez,... Read more »
The Haul Road: A Motorcycle Tour of Alaska’s Dalton Highway
Frederick Tressler
April 4, 2012
My first ride to Alaska in 2008 was a 15-day, 7,600-mile affair and the fulfillment of a long delayed dream. Yet I still had the nagging feeling of unfinished business. In many ways it merely stoked my appetite for northern travel. This time getting to Alaska involved a 21-day, 8,400-mile round trip... Read more »
Alaska and Yukon Ayres Adventures Rider Motorcycle Tour 2011
Clement Salvadori
December 12, 2011
photography by Clement and Sue Salvadori Alaska and Yukon Ayres Adventures Rider Motorcycle Tour 2011 was originally published in the October 2011 issue of Rider magazine] On our final return to Alaska, after a night in the Yukon’s Beaver Creek, we took the mandatory group shot. Ah, the last frontier!... Read more »
Women’s Ride: Alaska Rider Tours in Anchorage
Perri Capell
April 11, 2011
story and photography by Perri Capell Alaska lures male motorcyclists like flies to honey, but getting more women from the Lower 48 to tackle it on two wheels has been a challenge, says Phil Freeman, owner of Alaska Rider Tours in Anchorage. In 2007, he struck the mother lode. Eleven women signed up... Read more »
Rider Alaska and Yukon Tour, The Last Frontier
Rider Magazine
August 21, 2010
Final Cell Phone Blog Most photos by Genie Tuttle Penultimate evening, Talkeetna, Alaska. Rider Alaska and Yukon Tour Denali’s ulu-knife top is sheathed in ever-present clouds, then clears suddenly and slices the red-orange skin of sunset, opening a stream of darker shadowy blood across the sky. It’s... Read more »
Rider Alaska & Yukon Tour Part II
Rider Magazine
August 18, 2010
Cell Phone Blog Day 10 Miles: 1900-plus (Dawson City Group, 2600; Roger, lost count) New friends: 10 Border crossings: 4 Rain riding: 8-10 min. Amazing sunrises: 4 (asleep for sunsets so far) Mosquito Bites: 11 Belly laughs: 1298 Wasp stings: 1 Bear sightings: 2 Caribou: 1 Wolf: 1 Porcupine: 1 Tipovers:... Read more »
Rider Alaska and Yukon Tour with Ayres Adventures
Rider Magazine
August 14, 2010
Taking a break on the Glenn Highway. “The last foreign country still friendly to Americans,” read the first, but far from last, hand-scrawled sign we would see expressing the many interesting sentiments Alaskans have for their state and visitors to it. These are independent folk up here, rugged individuals... Read more »
Motorcycle Travel: Alaska’s Denali Park at Twilight
ED MCCLURE
June 9, 2010
(This “Favorite Ride” was first published in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.) It was already noon, yet I still had 10 hours of daylight left to ride 180 miles on one of the most famous roads in the world. An earlier start would have been better, but my wife and I were swamped with... Read more »
Alaska Motorcycle Rides: Denali National Park & Preserve
Rider Contributor
May 5, 2010
story and photography by Ed McClure [Alaska Motorcycle Rides: Denali National Park & Preserve was originally published in the June 2010 issue of Rider magazine] It was already noon, yet I still had 10 hours of daylight left to ride 180 miles on one of the most famous roads in the world. An earlier... Read more »
The Road to Deadhorse, Alaska
Dr. Gregory W. Frazier
January 7, 2005
Loss of cell phone signal along the way for some riders may equal stepping off the end of the earth, which they can physically do when they reach the end of this road. For others, reaching Deadhorse can equate to blissful hours of two-wheel solitude. To intrepid motorcycle adventure-seekers and long-distance... Read more »
