1. We're using the SRAM quick-connectors on the chain, so we just took opened the chain up using those. (Nancy has a Shimano chain, and the connector works on those, too.) If you didn't have that, you'd have to break the chain the old fashioned way.
2. After removing the chains, we put them in a bit of diesel in a small peanut butter jar and shook and let it sit awhile.
3. Then I wiped every link carefully with a rag
4. Finally, we let the chains dry just a bit, then applied some new lube.
5. And the next day we put more lube on, because the diesel remaining in the chain dissolved a lot of the original lube, of course.

We have had some really nice road and some excellent motorists. In fact, we'll look back on the Cassiar and Klondike and Dempster highways with fondness because the traffic was light and the riding good.

But there are a few motorists whose Mama just didn't train them right.

I'm sure *your* Mama taught you that when passing a cyclist or a pedestrian on a dirt road or in the rain that you should slow down so you don't slop all over them. And didn't your Mama teach you to give a cyclist a wide berth when passing... and if you can't pass safely right now, then slow down and wait until you can.

Most of them are great, some some can use some more training!

• Starting out: Dempster Highway - Inuvik to Dawson City photos: all (float over for descriptions) or slideshow
• Dawson City to Whitehorse: all (float over for descriptions) or slideshow
• Whitehorse-Skagway-Juneau-Haines Loop: all (float over for descriptions) or slideshow
• Alaska Highway all or slideshow
• Cassiar Highway all or slideshow
• Vancouver Island all or slideshow

We're leaving Whitehorse in the morning and will spend 5-7 days on the Alaska Highway getting to Watson Lake, where we'll resupply and then backtrack a few kilometers and head south on the Cassiar Highway. The Cassiar is a beautiful, little-travelled alternative to the Alaska Highway that runs south to near Prince Rupert. It's about 80% paved and about 500 miles long. Probably not much internet access :-) Many people report seeing lots of bears on this route (no trouble with them). And there's a famous trail at Stewart where you can watch the bears catching salmon - we might get to see that.

We'll check in with you down the road!