On Day 30 we continued down the Cassiar Highway. The first part of the drive was just like
yesterday. We originally planned to go
to Hyder, AK. It is a 45 mile one way in
and one way out drive and is suppose to have a great bear viewing area. But the salmon were not there yet, so there
was not going to be any bears. We
decided to cut this side trip out of our plans as we are all getting a little
homesick.
But fate changed that plan.
There was limited places to stop for fuel, and at the junction to Hyder,
I thought we only had enough fuel to go the 45 miles there and not the 98 miles
on down the road. So, off to Hyder we
went. Boy was that the best decision of
the trip. The drive to Hyder has several
glaciers that you can see and goes through Bear Canyon that is full of
waterfalls running out of the cliffs on either side. If you get a chance to go there, do not miss
it.
AND THEN……. After we got parked in Hyder, they said we
should drive up the 22 mile gravel road to see Salmon Glacier. We didn’t have anything better to do so off
we went. This is a very narrow road with
no guard rails and you can only go about 20 mph. So it took us an hour to get there. But man, when we got there, what a view. I described it as a poor man’s helicopter
ride to see a glacier. We were above the
glacier looking down on it. Check out
the pictures.
We got back down the winding road OK and went to bed with big
smiles on our faces.
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