As I remember it, and Doug can correct me if I get this backward, I first approached him with the idea of doing the Alcan in late summer of 2006. Looking back through old emails though, it looks like Doug’s idea!
Email from Doug on 9/6/06:
“…Alcan Winter. Want to do it in 2008? Let's start planning.
DH “
We both thought it would be fun, and at that point, it seemed a loooong way away.
With a little encouragement from Paul Eklund, we got our deposits in to Jerry Hines, the Alcan Rallymaster by the end of the year. We asked Paul enough questions that he decided to host an Alcan informational meeting at Primitive Racing World Headquarters in
We kicked the idea of a Subaru around for a while. I used that as an excused to put the snow tires on my GTI and headed over the mountain to talk to Barrett at All Wheels Driven. Barrett said an Outback Sport 2.2 would be just the thing, only neither Doug or I had one. Still, it was a fun trip, minus the one snowbank at Timberline.
Jeff Zurschmeide gave us a killer leg-up on creating a sponsorship proposal. First we would try to find someone (company) to let us drive one of their vehicles, then maybe tires, lights, etc. Any cost we could defray would be great.
Not to say we didn't have some second thoughts:
Email from Doug on 4/13/07:
Are you still hot on the Alcan? We need to decide sometime soon if we want our deposit back.
Email from Bill on 8/25/07
-Bill”
"Hi Bill,
Do you think they, (Sterling...more on that later,) could get us the dump truck version? Send it. If they give us a truck, I'll find a way to do it.
Doug"
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