Reuniting with the main highway, we headed south, merging with the great Alaskan oil pipeline, to the town of Valdez. As we crossed the pass over the Chugash Mountains, we stopped to see the Worthington Glacier and several waterfalls pour out of the jagged mountain peaks. In the winter, these mountains catch the wet, sticky snow coming off the Gulf of Alaska and enable extreme skiing on 50 degree slopes. It was raining again as we checked into our hotel next to ...

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We continued our journey by curving south on the Glennallen Hwy wrapping around the immense Wrangell - St. Elias National Park. Watching the majestic beauty of the mountains and the surrounding boreal forests and spotting more moose, eagle and swans along the roadway, we decided to take a detour and head deep into the park. We turned east toward the town of Chitna for the 60 mile gravel road to McCarthy - the only way into the vast national park. The road is bui...

Leaving the Alaska Marine Highway and the Inside Passage behind, we began our adventure into the Interior. We passed back through Canada, first through the short panhandle of British Columbia, then onto the Al-Can Highway in the Yukon Territory. We drove by little rivers and streams with names like Flying Squirrel Creek and Gibbles Gulch. To the west was a white picket-fence of mountain tops holding back one of the largest non-polar ice fields in the world. Our ...

It's a 25-hour ferry trip from Price Rupert, B.C. to Juneau, Alaska up the Inside Passage. But, unlike air travel, the seats are spacious, there's plenty of room to walk about, there's a cafeteria, cocktail lounge and little gift shop. Plus, you always have the option to go out on deck for a scenic view or just to get some fresh air. It's a much more leisurely way to travel and we didn't mind a minute of it. The weather was pretty socked-in - low hanging clouds h...