| Summary | Eric and Matthew Gilbertson |
| Owner | Eric Gilbertson |
| Creation Date | 2008-08-27 12:52:47 UTC-0400 |
| Description | For an awesome, complete, day-by-day, multimedia trip report see our dad's blog:
http://mealaska.blogspot.com Trip Statistics Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Great Falls, Montana (N70 11.981 W148 27.376) to (N47 29.986 W111 18.265) 3012.9 mi 37 days 120,962 ft total elev gain (avg 3200ft/day) Miles per day: 120.53 (max), 31 (min) Avg calories per day: 8,000 - 10,000 Max speed: 43.1mph* (*BOB trailers are only rated to 25mph) Moving avg: 12.1mph Flat tires: Eric 1, Matthew 9 Days of rain: 7, days of snow: 1 Average # of showers per day: 0.105* (*not including jumping in creeks/rivers) Avg mosquitoes killed per day: 500 Days paid to sleep: 4 Wildlife seen: muskoxen, grizzlies, black bears, bald eagle, lynx, buffalo, caribou, elk, camels, cattle License plates seen: all 50 states!, 11 provinces, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina # of (failed) attempts to pick up packages from Canada Post: 3 Satisfaction with Canadian Postal Service, from 1 to 10: -8 # of seatposts lost by the $%@@#&! TSA: 1 (see picture # XYZ) # of seatposts welded/machined by the kind folk of the outpost of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: 1 |