Yesterday, today - BEST RIDING SCENERY YET! The Cassiar Highway is incredible - hard to keep the Beemo-potomai between the lines while riding through the valleys, gorges, along the rivers, glaciers. Of course it rained a bit both days, but that didn't matter. This was incredible - I hope the video I shot works out. High mountain waterfalls are common, huge glaciers are common.
We had to stop at this one on the way to Stewart/Hyder - we learned later at lunch in Stewart that the film Insomnia was filmed here (Robin Williams, Al Pacino) - if you remember the spooky scene in the fog at the end with the cabin - it was here.
The Cassiar is flanked by at least 3 ranges, and each range has a distinct color and shape. We took a side road to Stewart BC/Hyder Alaska (gorgeous ride), and got to backtrack back to the Cassiar. Hyder is a VERY small town, isolated on the lowest portion of Alaska - no formal US border crossing going in from BC, but BC had one coming out. Three main objectives in Hyder - tour the town (done in 60 seconds), get "Hyderized" (our Hyderization was a lunchtime event), and see if the bears were out feeding on salmon on Fish Creek.
We got lucky with the bears too (see the SmugMug site for more) - the Salmon run had begun, so the bears were coming in:
For more bears, and other road pictures (including Hyderization), check out the SmugMug site:
We packed a lot in the last 2 days - good stuff. Time to crash.
Blackie out.
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