Reaching the END of the Dalton Highway - Alaska's ARCTIC North! | S1E26

Wow, this is a, oh my God! My journey around the planet begins at North America's most northern drivable point. The plan is to ride through Canada and America before crossing over to Europe. From there, I'll make my way through the Middle East and Asia. After island hopping through Indonesia, it'll be Australia and finally, New Zealand. The end of my journey will be marked by the southernmost point of the South Island. I'm calling it the big spiral and this is act two to an Alaskan beginning. Good morning. So today is the last day of my trip north because after today, I won't be able to go any more north. Kind of exciting. Let me, let's have a look at the map. All right, so right now I'm in Coldfoot and I want to head north through Atigan Pass, through Gates of the Arctic National Park. The Americans are so good at naming stuff. All the way north through Deadhorse to Prudhoe Bay. And the reason it's so special is because Prudhoe Bay is the beginning of my journey to New Zealand. So from the northernmost point of North America to the southernmost point of New Zealand. Kind of excited, but also a bit nervous. It's just, it's such a big thing. It's hard to even comprehend in my mind what it's all going to be about, but it's, it's the start. And I'm kind of, kind of excited for it. Hmm, didn't want to start so easy there. I wasn't sure how much to dress up because it felt pretty warm this morning, actually. And I think today's supposed to be warm as well. Back to the Dalton Highway. So according to this, today's ride is 386 kilometers and I should be good for, for fuel. Oh, it's a beautiful morning. Hello. Where are you headed? Valdez, apparently. Oh yeah? Cool. Oh, so you can get a drone, love it. Oh, just Valdez. I thought you were going to say Argentina or something. Yeah, I, I, I'm crazy, but I'm not yet that crazy. Not that crazy. Are you Alaskan then? No, I flew up from San Francisco a few days ago. Oh yeah, cool. Yeah. Oh, did you fly here too, or did you ride up? No, I flew, I flew to Prudhoe. Oh, nice. Yeah, it's been a few tough days. Oh really, is it, is the pass pretty, pretty steep? The pass is, I wouldn't say steep, but man, I was fighting headwinds for like three days. Oh really? Like 20 mile per hour headwinds, can't hear anything. Wow. Brutal. Geez. Really knocks your ego down a peg. But the other side was pretty good, probably? Yeah. It was actually, I, I got someone to hitch me over and it was fantastic. Yeah. It's just like, have you been up here before? No. Oh, it's crazy over there, man. You'll love it. Oh yeah? On that thing, I think it'll be much more enjoyable. Yeah. Well, I see guys like you, like on my whole trip, I'm like, every time I see him, I give him a thumbs up because I'm a, I'm a mountain biker normally. Yeah. And like just the idea of doing those big days, like it's so hard. Yeah. Spirits are up today. Much better. Good. Yeah. And there's no wind. No wind. Yeah. Going to Coldfoot. I feel like I can make it for dinner. Oh, definitely. Oh, Coldfoot's not that far away. Yeah. I think you probably got it three or four hours. I would think. Easy. Yeah. Downhill. Yeah. The water's flowing that way. Exactly. Yeah. I'm trying to see if I should filter water here. Keep going. Seems a little stagnant. Oh, there's definitely some bridges that way that will have better flow for sure. Yeah. What's your name? I'm Eric. Eric, Mark. Yeah. Nice to meet you, man. Sweet. Good to meet you too. All right. Well, I'll let you get to your stuff. Yeah. Have fun. Good luck. This is a, Whoa! My God! Just forced to land the drone on the side of the road. Landed it on the right here. This is so gorgeous. I just can't. Oh, I'm heading up there. I don't know if you can see that truck. Tiny little truck up there. Not bad, right? You stopped right in the right place. In the right spot. Yeah. It's amazing here. I can't believe it. When you climb out of the main valley from Coldfoot into here, Yeah. I was, and then you see this big green field with the water. Like, oh my God. What's your name by the way? I'm Eric. Eric. Nice to meet you. Pleasure to meet you. Yeah. I'll ride with you a bit. If that's all right. Israeli name? Israeli, yeah. Yeah, cool. This may be the best view of this pass with a motorbike in front, I think. Oh, it's so gorgeous here. Not bad, right? Yeah, I know. They see something over there. Now we're getting to that, that's called the North Slope, right? The North Slope. Yeah. Oh, I want to ask her if she, what she sees. Do you see anything over there? Oh, is there caribou over there? Yeah, so, you guys have to pull it forward for me. Oh. Oh, there it is. It's actually all over out here. Yeah. It's just a little. Oh, so he's actually hunting it. Yeah, so it's pretty thin. Yeah. Oh, and did he like separate it from the herd or something, or? No, it's whatever. Oh, I see. So, it's a lush land. Oh, interesting. Yeah, the road goes up in it. Yeah. Really? Up there. Cool. How's it going? Doing good, so. Good, it's amazing here. Yeah. Do you have any hot tips on caribou? No, just to see them. Oh, well, late by like an hour. Really? Yeah, well, yesterday there was about 3,000 all the way over here. Wow. There's still some up there. Is there? Yeah. Another herd went over that way. 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But yeah, we're at the top of the world here. Kind of surreal. It's definitely, it definitely has a different feeling here. The way the lake is, and how flat it is. Oh, there it is. That's the famous sign. Oh, there's the sign? You just arrived as well? What's that? Yeah, everything's good. Well, I think I need a picture. And where do you start? In Ushuaia. Oh yeah, wow. So you finally made it. Congratulations. Thank you. Where are you from? Vancouver. Ah, Vancouver. Well, we're here now. But it's about the journey, not the destination, isn't it? It's always about the journey. We had a great day. Yeah, it was really, like, that pass? Pretty amazing. Alright, this is my accommodation for the night. Gotta put some booties on. What's going on? I texted someone about a booking for tonight. Maybe it was you, I don't know. What was your name? Eric Testrut. Huh. I thought he was Eric. He showed up. And Eric already showed up. That's why he looked at me like, why you call me Eric? How are you? I'm Jay. Sorry about that. Yeah, no problem. Alright, thank you very much. Enjoy your stay. Oh yeah. Why am I so happy about that? So I finally made it to Prudhoe Bay. And, wow, what a crazy, weird place. Like, this whole town is kind of just built on top of a swamp. There's just water everywhere. I've seen, you know, some places are sinking. I've seen, like, semi-trailers just, like, sinking into the water. It's just a really odd town. And I know this is the point, but it's so far north that, you know, the light is just different. In fact, the sunset for tonight is at 12.01am. Which is, it's crazy, isn't it? It is very much a mining resource collection town. In fact, this hotel is just totally focused on the workers it lodges. And I'm definitely the odd one out here. I'm basically a tourist here. And everybody else here is here to work. Yeah, it's a wild place. But I think more to the point is the journey and that drive-in through that pass. And once you're after the pass, all the trees are gone, it's just tundra. It's just, what a crazy, wild, interesting place. That, I don't know, I'm just kind of buzzing about it all. I'm also, you can probably see, I'm fairly tired. Like, I've been, I think I've calculated, I've been riding seven days in a row. And I'm going to have to ride at least two more to get back down to Fairbanks. So it's going to be a lot of riding and I need to take a bit of a break. Now, I think you all know where we are on the map. But let's just go have a look at the map and draw the line in because it's kind of special. So here's our map of Alaska. And this morning, I started at Coldfoot and drove up the highway. And then I climbed into the pass and I was so blown away. I started flying my drone, almost lost the drone. And then it just kept going and then it just got better and better and better. And then you come out of the pass and you come through this valley. It's so cool. And then you're in the rolling hills of the tundra. And then, it's still quite a long drive. And you just keep going and going and going. And then you end up past Dead Horse and then basically Prudhoe Bay. They're basically right next to each other. So this is basically the end of Act 2, getting to my starting point. And in the next video, we'll start Act 3. But it won't be quite Act 3 yet because I'm still going to take the tour and I'm going to get to the Arctic Ocean. And I'm going to jump in. I'm a little worried about that part. And the idea is to go south and then go east across North America and keep going east past America. So it's going to be the start of my journey. So it's, I don't know, I just have all these emotions mixed up. I feel a bit nervous. I feel excited. I don't know if it's going to work. I'm going to try my best to do this all. And, yeah. So thank you all to everybody that's followed along and watched so far. I really appreciate it. 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