In 1902, Felix Pedro found gold in the region and thousands of prospectors swarmed to the area in search of the “Mother lode.” Nearly a century later, Fairbanks » (population 30,244) is the trade and transportation center for Interior and Far North Alaska. From mid-May through July, visitors can enjoy more than 20 hours of sunlight a day.
We arrived in Fairbanks on June 04, 2007 the end of our first land tour. The following day we went to the El Dorabo Gold Mine Tour and the Alaska Tails of the Trail with Mary Shields, the first woman to ever finish the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race.
The next day we rented a car and moved at a slower pace doing some shoping and visiting the Santa shop at the North Pole not far from Fairbanks.
On June 07, 2007 we started our second land tour traversing the Dalton Highway crossing the Artic Circle and proceeding to Deadhorse at Prudhoe Bay a distance of 500 miles.
From here we flew along the Alaskan coast to the town of Barrow, the northen most community on the North American Continent.
Videos taken from the Riverboat Discovery on the Chena and Tanana rivers.
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