[Sca-cooks] Snowin!

Terry Decker t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Fri Jan 18 06:40:05 PST 2008


>>  > Morgana yr Oerfa, hoping the roads to Anchorage (350+ miles) will be
>>>  plowed by Friday afternoon when we head for coronet...
>>>  --
>>
>>350 miles?  You gotta be using the Willow Highway (Hwy 3).
>>
>>Bear
>
> Well, we will be going through Willow. We just call it the Parks
> Highway. Other than going to Valdez (about 50 miles longer) via the
> Richardson, or the heading for the North Slope, it's just about the
> longest highway in Alaska. And, of course, you can go on down to
> Homer once you get through Anchorage, but it's not the Parks anymore.
> It's very hard to get lost driving long distance in Alaska (G).
>
> Morgana

I remember the fun of getting to McKinley Park or Fairbanks before they 
built it.  As I remember, the section from Anchorage north was the Willow 
Highway while they were building it and it was still going under that name 
when I left in 1972.

Bear 





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