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Something a little different - riding in snow and COLD! temperatures.

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AlaskaJack > This is what the bikes looked like in the winters prior to 2006. Studded tires, and a car snow tire on the back of the Wing, have changed that, as some of these photos will show.

AlaskaJack > 4/7/02 - Around Mile 1150 of the Alaska Highway, just above Dry Creek #2. This wasn't technically a "winter" ride, as spring was two weeks old at the time, but it got me to thinking that a winter ride was possible, "if" I could get some tires that would work in the snow - better than these!

AlaskaJack > 4/7/02 - Mile 1136 of the Alaska Highway. Back up on two wheels, I enjoyed the bare pavement where the sun had been melting the snow.

AlaskaJack > 4/7/02 - From Mile 1136 of the Alcan, looking southeast. Snow falling in the valley ahead, but the road remained bare, thankfully.

AlaskaJack > 4/8/02 - A short distance south of Liard Hot Springs I stopped to get ready for the coming night and colder temperatures. Little did I suspect how much colder.

AlaskaJack > 4/9/02 - Just outside Dawson Creek, on the John Hart Hwy., I stopped to let the rising sun burn off the fog ahead. It was about -5°F at the time I left D.C., but I had ridden through temps as low as -15°F around 2 or 3 AM.

AlaskaJack > 4/9/02 - Nearing Pine Summit on the Hart Hwy, with the temperature up to a comparatively balmy 10°F, the climb over the top is my only concern.

AlaskaJack > 9/28/03 - On the Denali Hwy., overlooking Isabel Pass in the Alaska Range. The new Wing gets its baptism in snow.
Still not a real winter ride though. Photo won MTF Photo of the Month in September 2003.

AlaskaJack > 2/?/06 - Thinking of making a winter trip to Deadhorse, Roger Bliss (Wheeldog) and I haul his KLR 650 to the Haul Rd and try it out. After two miles of riding on the slippery stock tires, I decide the best place for the bike is back in the bed of his pickup. But we unloaded it at the Arctic Circle long enough for some hammed up photos.

This is what the bikes looked like in the winters prior to 2006. Studded tires, and a car snow tire on the back of the Wing, have changed that, as some of these photos will show.

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