Tuesday July 22 - 8 PM

Today’s ride was from Watson Lake down the Cassiar Highway (430 miles) where we branched off 40 miles to the West Coast to Stewart, BC and Hyder.  These are two very small towns on the coast and in the middle of nowhere.  I am guessing the population of the two towns combined is probably about 100 people.  The other very unique aspect of these two towns is that Stewart is in BC and Hyder is in Alaska – but Hyder is the end of the road and there is no way to get in or out beyond there – yet the Canadians have a border checkpoint when you go to Hyder and come back into Canada.  Nearly everyone that takes the BEAUTIFUL drive down to these two towns goes into Hyder because that is where “Fish Creek” is.  This is a place where they have a platform over the river where you can hand out and watch the bears feed on Salmon swimming upstream.  It seems it is the very early start of that season, so we only saw one Grizzly and he was actually eating grass and brush on the side of the creek, not Salmon.

 

The ride down the Cassiar today was great!  Road conditions were mainly good (despite some of the horror stories we had heard) and the sun shined most of the day as well – but it was in the lower 50’s this AM, so a little cool to start.

 

As you may have noticed, the Spot locater is still not working – It looks like it is on this end – but when I pulled up the web site – nothing is showing up – sorry about that. 

 

Mark – if you are reading this we hope all is going well.  We have tried calling a few times, but your phone goes straight to voicemail, so I suspect it is like most hospitals where they don’t allow you on the phone.  I am sure we will hook up with you in the next day or two when you get home.

 

Tomorrow is a big ride day of over 600 miles as we are trying to get to Bob and Sawyers former class mates home for the night.  We were going to roll out at 6 AM – but like fools, we did not gas up when got into town at 6:00 and the station closed on us and since the next fuel is 150 miles away – I guess we are now stuck until 7:30 AM when they open.

 

Steve