Al Can highway

Has anyone watched the DVD "Building The ALCAN highway"? When I started my tire shop in 1986 we had an elderly fellow who ran dozers here locally. He used to come in and drink coffee and tell us stories of his experiences. He said he had helped build a whole lot of the Alcan highway. He had some great stories to tell. The group he was with used AC dozers and other equipment made by or contracted thru Allis. He was a pilot, He made many trips back up there on vacations. He liked it so well he had his friend fly his ashes up there and scatter them over the mountains. Me, I want mine scattered over some south sea island where it is warm. One of his stories was After the highway was completed and he moved back to Iowa, he said We started to fly up to Minnesota to bid a job, couldn't figure why the dang plane was handling funny. They were getting low on fuel so he landed in a guys cow pasture and bought 15 gallons of tractor gas to refuel the plane. He walked around the plane and found lightening has struck the plane and knocked off part of the tail. He said they were almost at the jobsite so they flew on, looked the job over and then flew the plane home so he could get it fixed.   He said the plane was flown all over using tractor gas.

I've driven it numerous times from Whitehorse, Yukon down to civilization when I lived there. It kept getting straighter, flatter and more hard surface each year. The last time was in 2006. It is now just a nice very long highway with not much traffic. 

I saw a documentary probably 20 years ago.. Guys were setting out at a picknic table eating supper ( nice weather).. Couple bear cubs walked out of the woods, smelled the food and climbed up on the table next to the guys to eat.... Apparently they had never seen people before, and saw no danger in sharing supper.