Jack welcomes you to the Dalton, but kind of in the wrong order. Instead of just getting on the Dalton, he’s just leaving it. At the very end you can see the Elliot Highway to the right where it continues on to Manley, and at that point he has left the Dalton and is on the Elliot. It’s a lot simpler than it sounds. The Elliot Highway was finished in 1959, goes north from Fairbanks and turns west toward Manley, a town a few miles from the Tanana River. The Dalton Highway was built in the 1970s to supply and access the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and starts where the Elliot turns west to Manley. If Jack could, he’d redo this video so it goes the right away, welcoming you to the Dalton at it’s beginning. But it’s such a beautiful day!
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Audio from the road
Some of you have requested clips where you can hear real audio from the road. Here are two mixtures of clips with real audio in real time.
Comin’ down The Shelf
You can barely see the surrounding hills and mountains while Jack drives during a snowfall. Just a nice calm driving experience with a little music to make it more interesting.
Trucks of the haul road
Here’s a mixture of clips where Jack meets a bunch of trucks.
Up and over Atigun Pass
This video is by far my favorite of all of them… going over and down Atigun Pass on a bright sunny day with the mountains as your only company.
Hurry hurry wait
In this one and a half minute video, Jack drives over the pipeline then has to wait in back of another truck while a grader finishes clearing the road. Then he continues on down the hill – you can see the grader on the left. (Don’t forget, the video is in HD so don’t watch it blurry!)
A mellow drive in the mountains
A beautiful drive in the mountains, set to “Urban Lullaby”.
A few minutes at Coldfoot
Another video, this one spending a few minutes at the parking lot in Coldfoot before he heads down the road.
Just Jack and the road
Jack drives by Pump Station 2 on the left and then some storage units on the right… otherwise it’s just him and the road. Life could be worse!
Jack pulls over for an oversize load
About an hour after leaving Prudhoe Bay, Jack meets a pilot car for an over-sized load so he stops at a pull-out and waits. You’ll see the trucks in back of the big load go around it, then a truck that will be traveling faster than Jack goes ahead of him.
The big load is a 400,000 pound mod (modular unit) and there were four 70,000 pound push trucks to get it from Fairbanks to the last hill which is about 60 miles south of Prudhoe. Only one push truck is needed to get it the rest of the way into Prudhoe and that’s the one you can see here.
(Your volume needs to be turned up on this one.)
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