13 Chicken into Fairbanks
After spending 2 nights in Chicken we headed South on the Taylor Highway to Tok and then NW on the Alaska Highway thru Delta Junction (the official end of the Alaska Highway) and on to Fairbanks. On the Taylor Highway we saw the usual beautiful mountains.
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Ice along the river.
We made a stop and did some purchasing (and a lot of sampling) at the Delta Meat and Sausage Company. They had all sorts of sausage to include reindeer, caribou, and any other native animal in the area.
This is the official end of the road sign for the Alaska Highway. We even got a certificate that we had driven that road.
In Delta Junction we saw our first of the Alaska Pipeline. This is a cross section cut (48 inch diameter) and the other picture is of a pig, a piece of equipment pushed thru the pipeline by liquid pressure and it takes pictures of the inside for inspection purposes while cleaning out the pipe walls.
Sullivan’s Roadhouse in Delta Junction.
This picture was in the roadhouse and, while it doesn’t fit here, is a very important part of the Northwest history. This is the Chilkoot Trail which ran up a steep mountain from Skagway. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police required that all people entering into Canada have at least 2,000 pounds of supplies or goods to sustain them. Thus, these people climbed this steep trail several times. This scene even shows on the Alaska license plates.
This is the pipeline.
We visited a neat wood work shop selling all sorts of items made of wood. These were on the front lawn and represent much of what they sell (maybe on a larger scale).
North Pole Alaska was a giant tourist trap altho sort of cute.
After a quick bus tour of Fairbanks, we went to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum.
A brown bear (grizzly).
Fossilized Mammouth tusks.
This is Blue Babe, a mummified Steppe Bison from the olden days.
