New Alaska 179 Owners
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Topic: New Alaska 179 Owners
Posted By: olga1913
Subject: New Alaska 179 Owners
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2017 at 3:47pm
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8 weeks and 8.000 miles in Alaska, Yukon and BC. Bought the trailer new in Anchorage. Rough experience. Long time tent campers. My wife and I, daughter Rie (11), Freya the newfie and and Oden the lab. The Denali Highway, Talkeetna Spur, Top of the World Highway, The Silver Trail, The Cassiar 2X, and 47 miles of forest service evacuation 'road'. BC wildfires. The trailer did well but left us with MANY winter projects. I look forward to reading her and learning from the board. http://www.muskegimages.com/frame/slideshow?key=tBMsVr&autoStart=1&captions=0&navigation=0&playButton=0&randomize=0&speed=3&transition=fade&transitionSpeed=2&clickable=1 - Trip images. Bruce
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Posted By: M&M
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2017 at 3:59pm
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Sounds like a wonderful adventure! Beautiful pictures...
------------- 2017 179 "Big Sexy" 2012 Honda Pilot |
Posted By: bigbearcraig
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2017 at 5:01pm
| Beautiful pictures! |
Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2017 at 9:19pm
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Looks like you had a great time. Congratulations. ------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
Posted By: YODT
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2017 at 8:45am
| Beautiful pics! I'd love to get a copy of your itinerary, we want to take ours to BC and as far as Fairbanks at least. |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2017 at 9:38am
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Welcome !! Great pictures!!
------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: YODT
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2017 at 5:04pm
| Oh yes my wife wants to know if BOTH dogs sleep inside the Rpod. We will probably acquire an "auxiliary" dog later this year after losing our beloved aussie so wonder how well two dogs fit with two people! |
Posted By: olga1913
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2017 at 4:27pm
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We fit two adults, my 11 year old daughter and two large breed dogs in the 179 with little problem. It is all perspective as we are long time tent campers and are used to using space. The dogs slept in the pod. The lab on the queen bed between our feet and the newfie with my daughter. We traveled with two dog beds for the floor of the pod but they were never used...you know how that goes. The newfie would work my daughter and her sleeping bag like a Pushup ice cream treat. She would lay at the bottom of the sleeping bag until the kid went to sleep and then re-position herself during the night further up the bag until the kid woke up without covers and plenty of company. As far as an itinerary it would be impossible to get a read from ours. We drove from Haines to Anchorage before we bought the trailer and then revisited some of our of haunts with the pod. We did travel on all of the marginal highways and avoided all of the popular tourist destinations. We live in a tourist town and are fortunate enough to travel and avoid the huge numbers when we travel. We visited friends and family as well as staying in several locations where we previously tent camped. The wildfires in BC and the associated road closures changed our pace and routes. Haines-Anchorage-Cantwell-Tok-Dawson, YT,-Silver Trai into Keno City, YT, Cassier to Sea to Sky (99) an into Vancouver-Hope-Merrit-Hyder/Stewart-Carrier again to Whitehorse-Atlin, Haines Junction-Destruction Bay-Haines Junction to Haines and then on a ferry to Sitka. Routes and destinations changed with morning ideas, wildfires and remembrances. We were often on old mining turnouts and borrow pits. Traveled with a 120 solar panel and watched our fresh/grey/black levels. Plugged in when when we needed a distraction, dump, or internet. Big country.
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Posted By: YODT
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2017 at 8:03pm
| Sounds great, we also have a solar panel. Can't wait to get up there! |
Posted By: olga1913
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2017 at 8:03pm
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