Stewart BC, and Hyder Alaska

What a fascinating place! Glaciers, waterfalls, ocean, spawning salmon, grizzly and black bears, beavers, marmots, unique individuals keep us enjoying this area. We look out of our motor coach windows to enjoy the clouds caressing the mountains with the glaciers peeping around the edges, looking like blankets of white placed askew.

We have enjoyed a 30 mile drive on gravel roads that wind around the green mountain valleys that lead to Salmon Glacier. We looked down on this frozen river of ice where it splits into two inching along.

Then there is the bear viewing platform that accommodates hundreds of people who want to see the grizzlies and black bears. We have seen a sow with triplets, several boars, and black bears too. The gulls keep the air filled with a cacophony of sounds, warning each other of their territories.

Finally, the unique folks who make this area their home: people who know boom times in the mining, fishing and logging businesses industries, those who love the wildness of the area and the freedom it offers.

Grizzly mother and cubs at Hyder Alaska