June 25, 2014

This our second day in Stewart, BC. We just cannot say how magnificently beautiful this area of BC is.

We had a bit of a slow start this AM and left the RV park at 11:00. Our sightseeing today was to the Salmon River Glacier. This glacier is located approximately 30 miles north of the towns of Stewart/Hyder

The road to the glacier started as a 2-lane paved road (30 mph), the to a 1½ lane gravel surfaced road, to a one lane semi-surfaced road with periodic turnouts. Since we are early in the tourist season the traffic was very light.

Our first stop was at the Fish Creek wildlife viewing area. This area is actually in Alaska and is a USFS facility. This is the place where visitors can safely watch black and grizzly bears catch salmon. Unfortunately for us, the salmon run doesn't start until the 3^rd week of July. Oh well!! There was a creek on each side of of the walkway. Very pretty!!

From the viewing area we traveled on to the Salmon River Glacier. I previously mentioned that
the road had turned into a one lane with turnouts. Well...the further we climbed in elevation the more snow we found. In places, the road was only one lane with a huge snow drift towards the inside of the lane.

Not only was there the enormous Salmon glacier (1/2 mile wide by 6 miles long), there was also the Berdon Glacier about 5 miles north of the Salmon. We were not only impressed with the larger glaciers, we were astonished by the number of smaller glaciers tucked away in the upper snow chutes. We have no idea how many glaciers we were able to see, perhaps 15-20. We took over 50 photos today.

Tomorrow, we will continue our journey north towards the Yukon Territory with an over night stop at Dease Lake, BC.

All is well here, we hope it is the same for you!!