And The ADVENTURE Continues...: May 23, 2016 Stewart, BC and May 24 and 25, 2016 Trip into Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK and the Salmon Glacier

Monday, May 23, 2016 Stewart, BC

We had heard that the Cassiar Highway wasn’t such a good road. We traveled 214 miles today to Stewart and the road was good. We had some frost heaves, the road did narrow and there was a single lane over a wooden bridge but it was well worth it. The views were spectacular. From the high snow capped mountains to the endless waterfalls. We even got real close to Bear Glacier. We saw some totems on a side road. As we reached our destination Bear River Campground fairly early we took a quick run into Stewart. It wasn’t that big and we were back at the campground within 30 minutes. We all decided that after dinner we were going to go back the way we came in and take some pictures that we couldn’t get while riding in the motorhomes. It was about 730 pm and we were hoping that we would see some wildlife as we only saw 2 squirrels on the drive here. Luck was on our side we were only into our ride for maybe 15 minutes when Mike spotted a black bear, we saw a cub run into the shrubs (no picture) and on the way back we caught sight of another bear. It was another black bear. This one was bigger than the first one. What a great way to end our day. Let’s hope that the rest of our time on this road will be as good as today was. We only have 400 more miles to go. Tomorrow we are taking a ride across the border to Hyder Alaska to see another glacier. Hyder’s population is about 60 people. It is very small.

Tuesday, May 24 and 25, 2016 Trip into Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK and the Salmon Glacier

We started out the morning by going to breakfast in Stewart. We found a small café called Temptations Bakery and Deli and had a wonderful breakfast of homemade muffins and coffee. Mike had a big man’s breakfast of egg, sausage and home fries. I tasted his toast which was delicious that we ended ordering a loaf of bread to go. The baker wouldn’t share the recipe for this Canadian Harvest Bread, oh well can’t blame us for trying.

We started our adventure by crossing the border into Hyder, AK stopping at the Fish Creek Wildlife Observation Site a famous bear watching area. You can just envision the bears and the salmon running which will be in about three weeks. We talked with a Forest Service employee and he answered some of our questions about the area. We then ventured up the mountainside to see the 5^th largest glacier in Canada, Salmon Glacier. It was a gravel road but well maintained. It was raining but not very hard and it would stop ever so often. The clouds were also coming in and out of the canyon. We stopped just short of the summit as the clouds were so thick that we couldn’t see the road and we didn’t want to drive off of it. The glacier was huge and the waterfalls that we saw were plentiful and oh so beautiful. As we reached the top the snow kept getting deeper and deeper and it was getting a little chilly somewhere in the 30 degree range. We are all amazed at all of the beauty that we are experiencing. As someone told us the Atlantic coast is beautiful but the Pacific coast is much grander.

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