Lee and Karen Duquette,
The Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers
took a Jeep backcountry tour
through mud and water
July 6, 2009
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The wild jeep journey began
with a short ride on the George Parks Highway through the town of Healy.
Then a turn onto Stampede Road, once called the Stampede Trail (a road
NOT shown on any Alaska map). This road was carved out
of the wilderness by early miners working the area's Kantishna gold fields
and antimony mine. The road gained notoriety in the motion picture, "Into
The Wild" directed by Sean Penn. |
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Lee Duquette shifted into 4-wheel
drive mode and onto narrow dirt roads, through muddy puddles, and over
rocky "roads" with plenty of bumps and dips and sways. |
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Lee and Karen Duquette arrived
at the camp area where Scott, the cook, resides all summer. Scott only
leaves the camp to do laundry. Food is brought into his camp for him.
When the summer is over, Scott lives in Anchorage, but said he would rather
be in the woods. |
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Below: Scott prepared delicious Alaskan stew and flat
bread. |
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Below: The ladder by the tree was there
in case Scott has to escape from a bear. He also has bear spray in the
tree. |
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Below: The return trip back to civilization. |
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Below: Out of the wilderness - beautiful scenery at the
end of the trail |
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