Jul 21, 2010 - Stewart, B.C. & Hyder, Alaska

We took Highway 37 down from Watson Lake, YU, to reach our last Alaska destination. It wasn't a bad road except for 3 sections of construction that had some very loose gravel. There were signs posted to be aware of bears at the rest areas. Although we didn't see any there were prints of a bear and maybe a baby bear as well. We did see black bears along the highway and a big moose standing in the middle of the road. The highway is called the "Glacier Highway to Alaska" and for good reason. There are 20 glaciers along that stretch of road....

Jul 19, 2010 - Dease Lake, BC to Hyder, AK

Monday Will fill in the blanks later - sorry . . . Woke up early (but we both went to bed early last nite) – it is quite cool, but looks like it will be a great day, there’s nothing but blue sky above us! Gas: $ Coffee: Barely pulled out of the park & we saw a huge mountain ahead of us, the snow on the peak was shining brightly in the sun – Wow, what a way to start the day. A real eye-opener –better than coffee even! A deer ran across the road very quickly & then we saw a black bear along the side of the road ahead of us, Ron came to a...

Jun 8, 2010 - Salmon Glacier, Hyder, Alaska, Incredible

If you look at the map, we took a sharp left and headed toward the coast to get to a unique place called Stewart, B.C., Canada right next to the Hyder, Alaska, US border. Bill Tucker told us about this. We stayed at the most wonderful camp ground in Stewart. We headed to downtown Stewart and ate a wonderful Alaskan Crab dinner at the King Edward hotel. The next morning, we headed over the border (about a block away) to Hyder, Alaska to go on a 15 mile ride on a gravel (rocks and boulders and landslides, mini glaciers), ride up to Salmon...

May 28, 2010 - Hyder, AK

May 27, 2010 It is getting warmer as it was 53 when we got up this morning. We continued west on the Yellowhead highway passing Smithers a small town of about 5000. This is the largest town in the Buckley Valley providing supplies and amenities to the local population of the area. The town started as a supply station for the building of the Grand Trunk of the Pacific Railway. Today it also serves as a major skiing site for the Hudson Bay Mountain slopes. As we drove west we paralleled the Buckley River and saw rapids and falls in the area...

May 28, 2010 - Hyder, Alaska

The internet service in this part of the country is a little sparse!!! This entry will include a couple of days of travel. From Prince George we drove about 222 miles up Highway 16 to Telkwa, BC for a one night stay, and the next day proceed northwest, and hit the Cassiar Highway #37 and proceeded on to Hyder, Alaska. Yes we made it to a little piece of Alaska!!! We celebrated with dinner at the "Bus". (see pics). The drive here was spectacular!! We saw bear, moose, eagles, waterfalls, glaciers, and some of the most desolate country in the...

May 27, 2010 - Hyder, Alaska

The last week we have been on the move. From a wonderful trip to Vancouver, BC, where we rented a limo for 10 and toured the city. What a deal that was. Our welcome to the country was that we were asked to park in the parking lot of the RV park, because we were too big. Imagine! The trip to Prince George was absolutely gorgeous. The mountains around Hope, BC were to die for. Moose ran across our path, with no accidents I might add. We stayed for 2 nights, 1 day for rest. The area around Prince George was mostly logging. It clearly was a...

Sep 2, 2009 - Hyder, Alaska

Except for one construction spot, the road was wonderful! After so many bad roads, you really notice the nice ones. And scenery to Hyder was beautiful! Someone in our caravan summed it up…just when you think you are done with the “WOW” scenery, you go around the curve and there is another “WOW”!! Just one after another…and it never gets old, and they are all different. Hyder is known for their bears. The park has an observatory with a walk way to watch the bears feed in the river. Most of the bears have feed thru out the summer and are not...

Sep 1, 2009 - Hyder, AK

Sept. 1 Visited Hyder, AK today with Les and Jean. We had to cross the Canadian/US border, but the US doesn't stop you, the Canadians on the return do stop you. Not much is there. They are on the registry for ghost towns, so they claim to be “a friendly ghost town”. Traveling through town (dirt roads only) we continued on 3 miles to Fish Creek Wildlife Viewing area. Fish Creek is a part of Tongass National Forest. We were standing at the office asking when the last bear sighting was when I turned around and said “Bear!” There she was with a...

Aug 27, 2009 - Hyder, Alaska

This morning, Cheryl jumped out of bed in a panic that we were going to miss seeing the bears at the Fish Creek bear viewing area. So we had to get ready, and dress quickly, because when Cheryl isn’t happy, that means nobody can be happy. So we headed north and just as we arrived near the parking lot, a bear ran across the road. We paid our entrance fee and never saw another bear. We did see a lot of salmon, both dead and dying, and being eaten by gulls, but no bears. The boardwalk was lined with people waiting for the bears. There was a...

Aug 26, 2009 - Hyder AK

We woke to blue skies and warming temperatures, it could get into the 60’s today. Things were slow at fish creek. There was one large male grizzle came through and caught several salmon. Today there were several groups of researchers who walked the creek counting salmon and collecting fish scales. There was no more bear activity for the day. We headed back to Hyder to check the email for news on the part for the Geo. Good news was waiting; the part is on its way to Terrace BC and should be here by September 3rd. We returned to fish Creek...

Aug 26, 2009 - Hyder, Alaska

Our route today: South on Cassiar Highway from mile marker 196 to mile marker 97.5. Then southwest on Highway 37A Stewart-Hyder Access Road (also known as The Glacier Highway) to Hyder. A pleasant surprise for us this morning – the sky was clear and the sun was shining! Before packing up we spent some time uploading photos into this journal for the past couple of days. The Wi-Fi connection was not fast, but OK. The truck was due for its 7,500 mile oil and filter change. The Mountain Shadow RV Campground does not allow oil changes on the...

Aug 25, 2009 - Hyder AK

“Rain Rain Go Away” another rainy day, we drove out to fish creek and saw a grizzly crossing the road at fish creek and two black bears past the parking lot heading into the bush. The grizzly end up in Fish creek but it was rain hard enough to dampen my desire to get the camera out. We decided to head back into town and do laundry. In the afternoon we headed back out to fish creek and I spent the afternoon and early evening waiting in the rain for the bears to return. On female grizzle returned about 5:30 and caught several salmon. The...