new_subaru_seattle_to_alaska_trip Photo Gallery by Doug Jones at pbase.com

My wife bought a new 2009 Subaru Forester in Seattle on October 3rd, 2008. I flew south to pick the car up and drive it home to Alaska. I crossed over North Cascade Pass in Washington because I had never driven that route. It was well worth seeing and I really enjoyed the diversity of habitat from the west to east! These are my photos as I worked my way north to and up the Alaska Highway.

After I got the new car home (back to our temperate rainforest) we discovered a major leak that was leaving up to a quart of water in the car overnight when it rained hard. Our local Subaru dealer said they couldn't even look at it for 2 months (or so). After calls to the Subaru company and to the owner of our local dealer, they agreed to take it. Two weeks went by without any word. A call to them got a very abrupt reply that they didn't have time to look at it. We drove over to see where our car was and found it sitting outside in the rain. It looked like a terrarium inside, there was so much water fogging and running down all the windows. We have had 2.65 inches of rain since we dropped it off.

Almost a month later we finally got a call from our local dealer that the Subaru factory failed to install a seal somewhere in the car. That was why the car was leaking. A new seal has been ordered then installed.

This fall when the rainy season started in earnest again, the car was still leaking. It has been at the Subaru dealer for three weeks now (Sept 30, 2009) and no word from the dealer other than they are having trouble finding the leak...

JoAnn's new Subaru Forester with the Walker Subaru salesman Ha Lee in Renton	Our friend (and best man at our wedding) Pete Cleland with his best friend Sporty	Diablo Lake on the way up North Cascade Pass	Another View of Diablo Lake
Fall colors in North Cascade Pass	Descending off North Cascade Pass	Small River in the Okanogan area in British Columbia	Sunrise about 7:11am out of Princeton
Chukar partridge alongside the road, I saw a flock of these beautiful birds	Finally into the Fraser River Valley and north toward Prince George	Another view of the Fraser River	Fruit stands are still open with late season apples, peaches, pears, and all sorts of squash
Box of squash from a fruit stand	Fall color patches in the Fraser River valley	Bijoux Falls north of Prince George	Fall colors near Dawson Creek
At the start of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, B.C.	Black bear on side of road near Fort Nelson	As I get farther north (near Fort Nelson) most of the leaves are gone from the trees	JoAnn's car at Summit Lake
Summit Lake in October	Bull caribou with their harems were all over the roads	Bull caribou swimming a river	There were deer all the way up the highway
Unreal scenery the length of the Alaska Highway!	Mother and child	Stone Sheep really have very pretty eyes.	JoAnn's car with the stone sheep
Butt, Butt, Butt! South end of stone sheep going north	Stone Sheep Face	Stone Sheep	Stone sheep side view
Young of the year stone sheep	Toad River Headwaters	Toad River Lodge Sign	Another bull caribou
Muncho Lake looking to my right	The scenery on the walk into Liard Hot Springs is very nice!	Liard Hot Springs; a manditory stop on the Alaska Highway	Bison in the trees
This is an October photo, look at the change in the coat	Folded mountain	JoAnn's car at the Watson lake sign forest	Signs, signs, everywhere are signs...
Bull Caribou	Caribou crossing river delta	One of hundreds (thousands maybe?) of mountain views	Old cabin on Klondike Highway
Magpie in flight	Old railroad tracks	Mountains	Mining remains along Tagish Lake
Snow on White Pass, visibility dropped to almost zero at the top about 9 miles farther on	Leaving Skagway on the fast ferry	Herbert Glacier as we near Juneau

comment |

click on thumbnails for full image

Type your message and click Add Comment

It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest. Enter an optional name and contact email address. Name
Name Email
help	private comment