Iskut to Stewart and Hyder

We drove further down the Stewart Cassiar highway today and arrived in Stewart a small town on the coast in between mountains and glaciers. It is a quaint town with the least helpful and most surly tourist info girl to date. She literally threw a brochure at us when we asked what there was to do and stated, “It’s all there.” We had a good laugh at this and went on to read the brochures for Abbotsford and Langley as we were curious what they had found to write about. It turns out Abbotsford looks quite fun in brochure form. We explored the town for a bit and drove on a few kms to Hyder which is in Alaska and is where we are staying. Hyder has named itself, “The happiest ghost town in Alaska” and it is. Most of the shops are closed but it has a very friendly atmosphere. We drove up a dirt road to look at the Salmon Glacier which was spectacular and I expect we will be going up again tomorrow. There is also a place to view grizzlies along a salmon spawning stream. Devon was very fearful of this option despite it being in a raised and enclosed boardwalk but I have managed to convince him that they are cute and cuddly and only maul the slow and elderly. It turns out there was only one bear because the salmon are late running this season so we will try again tomorrow and perhaps Devon will flush the bears out for me and everyone else to photograph. Tonight we get Hyderized which I expect will be pretty entertaining and convenient as it is in our hotel, not very far to stumble home.

Kms – 400
Animals – grizzly, black bear, various small things





Bear Glacier




Salmon Glacier


Me photoing Salmon Glacier


Hyder