I'm trying to understand why you want publicity for this...Are you attempting to get some publicity for the dog charity as well as an adventure?

1. It'll be a laugh
2. Teresa gets a new dog that has struggled here in the UK
3. Publicity for charity and maybe funds
4. Most of it will be in relative warmth but parts in Akaska are only -10 degrees at that time of year
5. An experienced Alaska dweller might be meeting us near Juno (spelling) after we get ferry from Seattle. Or we even fly into Fairbanks.
6. We have no intention of walking around in the wilderness with bacon sandwiches, I know this shit can be dangerous, but it is the same in other parts of US where bears live.
7. We are not camping

The advice is being taken by the way :-) and appreciated

Hell, we had doubts about you driving across Florida. Hhh.

oooooh, ok, I got you.... you head up to Seattle, catch the ferry up the inland passage, get off at Haines, and drive the rest of the way in? (I did that once in reverse, slept in the lawn chairs on the deck, but got off halfway in the middle of canada and drove through to Idaho.) That's as safe as an airliner, and should be beautiful (if you get any nice weather and can get a clear view of the mountains that surround you all the way up.)

And also, for the record, there is an enormous difference between -10 on a nice sunny day, and you get to sleep in a warm bed... and -10, freezing rain and windchill after you've been on the road for 2 weeks. And as far as bears and the US go, you still don't get it.  You keep thinking you are going to 'go into' the wilderness.  I'm telling you once you head that far North, you are there.  You don't need to take one step off the road. (Hell, the way you are going now, you are going to a place with no roads.)  And most places in the States don't even have bears around. But you are going to the land of the largest Brown bears in the world, tied with Russia. Even the Black bears up there are much bigger on the average than down here.  

But that stretch of hi-way, from Prince Rupert to the Idaho border, I drove in 22 hours straight, and along my way I saw 3 different bears, a few hundreds of miles apart, on the highway, and got photos of all of them.  And if you know anything about bears, then you know even if they are around, you almost never seen them.  Most people in this country, even hardcore outdoorsman, have never even seen a bear in the wild... which means, I can't even imagine how many were just 5 yards into the wood I didn't see on that drive.  

I still remember that every-time I stopped for gas, and the locals saw that Jeep (I posted recently) they would come over in a worried tone and ask me if I was camping, and then would warn me that 'there were lots of bears out there'.  After the first few times that happened to me, and I started seeing bears inbetween, I said screw it and just kept the hammer the down and didn't stop until they closed the roads in Banff, because an April snowstorm dumped 4 feet on us.  

And Last time I parked at a campsite where there were 3 known problem bears they did over $500 damage to my pickup and then eventually tried to get into my tent with me (White Mtns, Arizona), and I lost another tent to bears after they added 2 more doors to it for no reason in the Sierra Nevada's. (And I NEVER keep food in my tent, or even toothpaste, or anything even remotely scented - not even gum.)

Anyway, I'm happy with the route you are going.  It's infinitely safer than the inland routes, for a million reasons.  And once you get off, the route the rest of the way is well traveled (for alaska/canada).  The only advice I can offer from there is, once you hit Tok, instead of going North on the old hi-way, consider wrapping around the long way SW, and run up the 'new' hi-way.  You might get a chance to see Denali (usually you just see clouds) and in the end you'll see more country.  The road system is really just a little oval in the SE, after that, you need some other form of transportation.

If you happen to be coming through Spokane, WA (280 miles east of Seattle) let me know and I will buy you a beer and a burger.

There will be no tents. And now no scented food 

Teresa has lived there for13  years and I trust her and she is talking of meeting us. Local guide local knowledge.

I am a fair weather bloke. I like hotels.

Thanks Dr I will see where we hear when we know.

You sound like you are good to go then. Hehe I'm not sure it sound much like hitch hiking as I know it, but it sounds like a hell of trip!

Take lots of pics and spend as much time as you can on deck - you might see a whale. I never saw one (up there) but I saw more dolphins breaching than I ever thought possible. Haines is also loaded with bald eagles.

Enjoy!

T will take care of you.  I'm going to help her build her cabin when she finally does so.  I can't wait - always wanted to see Alaska.

I think I might have misled with the term hitch hiking :-)

Its more, travelling and not standing at roadside or sleeping rough. I'm 38, I need a bed and I have a credit card :-)

QuoteA rose by any other name...

...you'll have a great trip. Once you get up there, youll have a better appreciation why I was initially alarmed for you. The far north is spectacular but it's very different than normal life.

Seriously, take pics. I'd love to see them.

There will be pics.

Enjoy Italy DB.

What about heading South once you are in NY and travel the bulk of the way in the relatively warm southern part of the America and then head north once you hit the West Coast?  It seems like it would be a lot simpler to plan a solid journey from Seattle to Fairbanks.  
Sorry, I completely missed your above post where you basically said you are doing just that.

I was curious about how hard it would be to cross international lines with a dog and found this:
http://ask.metafilter.com/155842/Crossing-the-USCanada-border-with-pets
Looks like you just need a letter from a vet with immunization records -- I thought it would be harder than that.

>cross international lines with a dog and found this

was wondering about that too. i thought it usually required 6 months of quarantine.

Rich, good luck on the trip. It's been enlightening reading this thread about the hinterlands of US/Canada... I can partly agree with the bears/shitty weather aspect, and that's in Southern Ontario....

Quotei thought it usually required 6 months of quarantine

Only for Hawaii.  The lower 48 is easy to take a dog from Europe/ England to US.  Very difficult to take pets from US to UK, however.  That also requires 6 months of quarantine (but that can be an "at home" quarantine)