YUKON with a Side of ALASKA

A circuitous loop through British Columbia and points north

STORY BY KIM ROYAL

As we crossed the border into the Yukon it was hard not to think of how this trip came about. John and I were sitting at his kitchen table when the subject of where to do the annual July ride came up. John relayed how his sister, Cheryl, and her husband, Gordon Barker, were expecting to be transferred from Whitehorse to Nova Scotia in the fall and that this would be the last year to visit her by motorcycle. I’d never been to the Yukon and none of us had been there on a bike. I agreed to come up with a tentative route, proposing a loop through British Columbia that took the Stewart-Cassiar Highway with a return to Calgary through Alberta, staying mainly on the Alaska Highway. I emailed a tentative…

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Motorcycle Mojo (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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