Photos: Driving the Dalton Highway

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Driving north into fog near the North Slope, where the weather can be bad and the driving worse

On the Dalton Highway, most conversations concern the Dalton Highway. Although there aren't many people on the road, they inevitably talk about the road. My first conversation, during a three-day drive along the isolated freeway in Alaska, was with a man named Steven Duffy who was working as a waiter at the Yukon River Camp, a lonesome rest stop marooned among the fir trees four hours north of Fairbanks.

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