It’s raining on the Dalton Hwy and snowing at the Atigun Pass. Bernarda is waiting in Coldfoot for better weather. She reported this morning: “It was a disaster on the road. Totally mud road. I’m not going any further until it stops raining. I am in the camp in the room.”
Rodrigo is now 40km before Deadhorse. In Cantwell Rodrigo continued on the George Parks Highway to Fairbanks and skipped the Denali Highway. We have no information so far now, what the reason was. But missing such a big part of the route and go over to lead the race needed to disqualify him.
Along the route on paved stretches riders have to deal with lot of gravel and other things from trucks on the shoulder. At the begin of the Elliott Highway Andy got stopped by a cut in the rear tire. It took a while to find the reason of the blowout. At first no damage of the tire was visible and a new innertube was damaged after some 100m’s too. Walking back to the general store in Fox, disassembling the tire from the rim, cleaning everything, turning the tire inside out made the problem visible. A tire patch did not helped much and a ride on the oncoming remote 800km, mostly dirt roads and lots of potholes on the paved sections looked like not very wise in this weather. Since already 2 days Andy could not charge the USB devices by dynamo hub. So charging the rear lights would be already a challenge. And rear light is mandatory on the Elliott and Dalton Highway also at daytime.
The lady in the general store in Fox said: “I’m here since 46 years and we never had such a wet summer. It’s raining now since 8 weeks”.
Photos from the Dalton Highway by Bernarda.
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