Stewart BC and Hyder Alaska

Wednesday August 5:

Along Cassiar Highway

We finally made it to the Stewart/Hyder area of Canada and Alaska. Stewart is in British Columbia and Hyder is in Alaska. Hyder is cutoff from the rest of Alaska and is only accessible by going through Stewart BC or by boat from the ocean. It is a very small town with few residents. It calls itself "The Friendliest Ghost Town in Alaska". It is the only place I know of where going from Canada to the USA does not require going thro
ugh US Customs. However, to get back into Canada, where you just came from, you have to go through Canadian Customs. We ate dinner in Hyder about 100 yards inside the US border and had to
clear Canadian Customs to get back to our RV.

Brenda with Salmon Glacier

View from Salmon Glacier Road

Salmon Glacier

 The drive on the Cassiar Highway to Stewart was absolutely fantastic. The beautiful scenery continued with high mountains and more up close views of glaciers. One of the big draws for Hyder, outside of the remoteness factor, is the bear viewing and the drive to Salmon Glacier. We did both.

Salmon Glacier Road

Unfortunately there were no bear to see when we were present, but the drive to Salmon glacier was a once in a lifetime experience. The road to the glacier was unpaved and in many places unmaintained. There was enough potholes to satisfy anyone, so obviously we only drove the

End of the Salmon Glacier Road

Jeep. The road was one of those picturesque roads that winds through and long the mountain sides. On one side was the mountain straight up and on the other side straight down. It was exhilarating and scary all at once.

As I have mentioned previously it is impossible to capture the magnificence and splendor  of the   beauty that eludes the lens of the camera. It is something that must be personally experienced and not just viewed in a simple picture or told in a story of a trip of someone else.

As I have mentioned previously it is impossible to capture the magnificence and splendor  of the scenery with just a camera. Only the human eye and mind are capable of taking in the vastness of the beauty that eludes the lens of the camera. It is something that must be personally experienced and not just viewed in a simple picture or told in a story of a trip of someone else.