Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK

These are two small towns with not much to them but are located in a very beautiful area. Hyder is about the southern most AK city you can drive to, most others you need a ferry to get to. Just as we turned the corner into Hyder a mama bear and her two cubs rumbled across the street just down the road from us. I barely had time to get the camera out but got this shot.

 

Hyder is known for it's salmon run and bear fishing. Just past town is small stream with a boardwalk above that is used for viewing. In late July, early August as the salmon return upstream the bears come out to feast. But unfortunately for us we were too early again in the season to see this.

 

View of Fish Creek

 

Another important sight is Salmon Glacier, one of the largest in North America. To get above the glacier you drive about 20 miles out of town, up the mounatin.

 

Pano (bad shot but you get the idea) of Salmon Glacier

 

 

Cynthia at the glacier

 

Overview from parking area

 

Drive up

 

We spent one night in Hyder which was still about 1,300 miles from Anchorage. In case you are wondering British Columbia is HUGE!!! It is about ⅓ larger than TX and while the drive south to north is only about 800 miles it is very slow going. The roads are in bad shape with numerous frost heaves (but not quite like further north) potholes and gravel sections. So if you can drive 55 you are doing good. So we spent the next couple of days getting to Watson Lake, YT. An overnight at a Lion's Club campground and a quick visit to Jade City (where much of the world's jade comes from) brough us to Watson Lake and the famous sign post forest.

 

 

Jade City

 

In the Yukon!

 

Sign post forest (we will add to it on our return)

 

We continued on to another provicial CG just outside of town then moved on to Whitehorse, YT. We decided to take a two day break at Whitehorse, the road was wearing us down a bit.

 

More to come....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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