Sep 9, 2012 - Day 72

After breakfast in the Wolf It Down restaurant at Baby Nugget, we drove from Baby Nugget RV to Tatogga Lake RV Resort near Iskut, BC. We are now in British Columbia, and will be until we cross into Washington. Passed a number of lakes and what would have been some beautiful scenery. Visibility this morning was not all that great, but improved throughout the day. Rained for most of the drive with intermittent sunshine. The Cassier Highway winds though the Cassier mountains in northern BC. Narrow, winding, mountain roads with a fair amount of...

Aug 29, 2012 - Bell 2 RV Park - Iskut BC

Only 45 today and pretty bumpy roads. Narrower than the Alaska Highway, no lines, curvy and frost heaves common. Averaged 40 mph first part of Cassiar Highway to Jade City. Found some nice necklaces, earrings, and trinkets. Impressive big pieces of Jade there and huge saws to cut them. They actually supply 90% of the worlds jade and Asia just makes it into things! Passed a big area of prior forrest fires too. Stopped for lunch at Deese Lake and had good pasta at Rumors Cafe. Road did improve after that. Passed helicopters helping with...

Aug 12, 2012 - Mountain Shadow RV Park & Campground

Stayed at Mountain Shadow RV Park & Campground in Iskut, BC, for two nights in an Water & Electric only site. Once again, we especially enjoyed the free Wi-Fi while we have no cell phone or satellite TV service while in Canada. This is a recommended RV park. Note 1: While traveling from Watson Lake, YT, to Iskut, BC, we saw an Osprey, a Beaver and several Beaver lodges and dams, an American Red Squirrel, a Least Chipmunk, numerous brown Arctic Ground Squirrels (both alive and road kill), several Canadian Geese, and numerous different...

Aug 3, 2012 - Good Hope Lake, to Meziadin

In our last entry, we discussed how convenient and cozy those little turn-outs can be. Well, we got another type of surprise in the last one we backed into. It was the perfect ending to a very eventful day, as we headed for the Hwy 37A junction. The “Milepost” book says that the 60 mile drive to the town of Stuart rewards travelers with beautiful scenery, including Bear Glacier only a quarter mile from the road. We decided it would be worth the drive, and headed in that direction. We soon hit a delay when we came upon a section of forest...

Jul 25, 2012 - Iskut, British Columbia

Still traveling west on the Cassiar Hwy. toward Hyder, Alaska. Staying at Mountain Shadows Rv park. Hope to send pictures later internet wont allow pictures. Also no cell still. Pictures are of the drive to Iskut. Down the Cassiar Hwy. Not too good of a road but some pretty lakes and scenic. The view of the lake with the mountains in the background is from the campground. The owner has a log home with a picture window looking out at that view. The temp. was 75 degrees. We visited and played "ladder golf" that evening. The flower is called...

Jul 19, 2012 - Red Goat RV Park

Red Goat Lodge in Iskut, BC. We are half way down the Cassiar Hwy. Very rough road and a lot of hills today with short area of sort of good road. Small campground on a lake (which I can’t remember). Lots of trees and only a few campers – nice after last night when we could have heard our neighbors snoring. After dinner last night (in Watson Lake) the campsite across from us serenaded the campground with guitar and accordion – the female singer was past her prime but I give her an ‘A’ for enthusiasm. They were very considerate and quit...

Jun 17, 2012 - Sunday June 17 - Watson Lake, YT to Iskut, BC.

Sunday June 17: We left Watson Lake this morning and headed south on Hwy 37 (Cassiers Hwy.) and immediateley crossed into Briish Columbia officially headed home. Our fist stop was at Jade City which a little store that sells jade in the middle of nowhere. The people at the store explained that there is little jade left in China and that all the jade now is mined in Candada and shipped to China, Japan, Korea, and India. Our second stop was at Deese Lake. Our last and final stop for today is the Tatogga Lake Resort and RV center. Tagogga...

Jun 7, 2012 - Iskut

Left Hazelton early this morning. Started raining as we were traveling on the YellowHead Highway towards the Stewart Cassiar Hwy. Much of the ride was through logging areas. We did get to see some of the mountain range. It still had much snow. along the was I spotted a black bear along the roadside. Their common in this area. WE drove to Iskut, BC. Stayed at the Mountain Shadow RV Park for the night.

Jun 7, 2012 - Day 17 - Stewart to Iskut BC

Thursday, rain was falling as we left Stewart. We learned several interesting facts while we were in Stewart. Six movies have been filmed there, including Eight Below. They have the record for most snowfall in Canada, at 27 feet. On the way out we saw an avalance sign that said avalanche danger year round! The campground owner gave us some very important information on bear scat. If the bear scat has blue berries in it, it's a black bear. If it's got bear bells in it, it's a grizzly! We saw lots of wildlife today! The count included one...

Aug 27, 2011 - Watson Lake, Yukon to near Iskut, BC

We had a nice drive down to a beautiful rv park nestled in the mountains covered with small glaciers and overlooking a lake. This was the nicest setting we've had and we all enjoyed it very much. The owners told us to beware of bear in the area but we didn't see any. We did stop at the jade shop and Cathy and Janette picked up a couple of "goodies" for memories....

Aug 6, 2011 - Iskut, BC

Today, we left our campsite at Junction 37 about 8:30am to travel about 200 miles to Iskut, BC. Today we travel the Cassiar Highway which is reputed to have unmatchable scenery in some areas although the road is not the best. Along the way we saw a 2-3 year old Black Bear, and a family of Dall sheep. We stopped at "Jade City", where they sell a lot of Jade items. Most(+90%) of the worlds Jade is mined within 90 miles of Jade city. Joanne bought some small things as a souvenir, and proceeded on our way. We had lunch in the camper along the...

Jul 26, 2011 - Iskut - Tatogga Lake

The ride here was pretty neat. We passed a small gold rush town near Good Hope Lake that had the biggest all-gold nugget (no quartz) ever found in British Columbia in 1877 - 72 oz. Along the same route, we came to "Jade City" - population 12 - that has obvious Jade deposits. We saw some beautiful jade pieces - tiny to massive boulder size rocks on display - and of course, all available for purchase!!!