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From: "Walter Dodson" <wdodson@bak.rr.com>
To: <Benjamin.Welch@carle.com>, "LancairList" <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: Trip to AK
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:53:55 -0800
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Ben,
Go to Whitehorse and then on to Anchorage.  Anchor town to Talkeetna is
wonderful as you just keep getting closer to the big mountain.  Do watch for
wx around the mountain as well as on the entire trip.  At your first stop in
Canada pick up your Canadian charts.  Abbotsford would be good.  The maps I
used twenty years ago were printed by the Department of Energy, Mines and
Resources, Aeronautical Editions.
Head out to Williams Lake then Prince George and on to Dawson Creek/Ft.
Saint John (which are about 42 mi apart).  This is an airway route as
opposed to the Ditch which helicopters and float planes use IF they have a
fuel cache at the head of the lake.
From Ft. Saint John (my maps are incomplete here) get to Ft. Nelson which is
on the east end of the Alaska Highway map.  This chart is a must have.  West
to Watson Lake, Teslin and Whitehorse (which is a must stop).  From
Whitehorse get back into the U.S. at Northway.  Use the WAC's to get to
Anchorage via airways or the Alaska highway.
The Canadian charts are: Merritt-Lac La Hache NTS #92, Williams Lake-Prince
George NTS #93, Prince George-Dawson Creek NTS #93NE, Hudson Hope NTS #94SE
and Laird River NTS #94NW.
You're gonna love it.  I made three trips all by different routes when I
worked for Evergreen Helicopters in the 80's.  The instrument Bell 212's
were always moving around the country and I got lucky alot.  My best trip
was solo in a VFR 212 from Deadhorse (Prudhoe Bay) to Galveston Tx.  Honest,
all by myself in 4 1/2 days.  I called it my sea to shining sea trophy dash.
I even stopped in San Angelo for an overnight and gave my old grandma and
her girl friend a ride over town in the best smooth air ever and at sunset!
I arrived to see the destruction of the hurricane the week before.
Everything on Galveston Island was upsidedown.
Enjoy,
Walter Dodson  IV-P 80%

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