: For different scenery on one trip we went farther west to Spokane,
: then north up the Okanogan Valley to Kamloops, St. George and
: Smithers, B.C., then up the Cassier Highway to Watson Lake. From there
: we followed the Alaska Highway to Whitehorse, then we turned north to
: Dawson City, Yukon. From there to Fairbanks. Then down to Talkeetna
: and Anchorage.

: The scenery, btw, even more spectacular along the Cassiar Highway than
: along the Alaska Highway.

: I might be mistaken, but I don't believe we had to get above 8,000 on
: that trip, either. I can assure you we didn't have to "top any 14,000
: foot peaks." Two of us, neither of us midgets, and the required
: survival gear put us near gross in a PA28-161 Warrior. We couldn't
: possibly have got to 14,000 msl.

Sounds pretty much like our trip in our PA28-180. Only 2 of us (neither small), and enough survival gear and camping
equipment for some hiking in Juneau while we were there. We kept it under gross at full fuel, but not by much. DA's (even in the
plains) in the summer make 300fpm up to about 6000' MSL all we could do. We thought about the Cassiar on the way back, but were
under a bit of a time crunch.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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