{"id":7405,"date":"2019-09-03T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2019-09-03T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:16:11","slug":"stewart-and-hyder-touristas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2019\/09\/03\/stewart-and-hyder-touristas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart and Hyder tourista’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We registered and pulled into our campsites in the Bear River campground around 3pm.\u00a0\u00a0 It was still raining a bit \"\"<\/a>and the roadway was pretty muddy.\u00a0 Luckily the sites were well- drained gravel and there was nice grass on each side.\u00a0 They did have a funny arrangement for the utilities I had not seen prior.\u00a0\u00a0 Each site was paired with another site.\u00a0\u00a0 We were in 16A & 16B.\u00a0 The B site you nosed in to the site and the A site you backed in.\u00a0 The utilities were shared in the middle between you.\u00a0 There was a note that you shouldn’t both dump at the same time.\u00a0 There were two access ports, but it was just a Y pipe to a single sewer pipe below.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess it would be bad if two large tanks were dumped at the same time.\u00a0\u00a0 Not something I wanted to test!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Later that afternoon we drove over to Hyder, and the most surprising thing happened:\u00a0 There wasn’t a border \"\"<\/a>checkpoint on the US side.\u00a0 We passed a Canadian border checkpoint but nothing, nada, no wall or even a fence was to be seen.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We then kept driving thru Hyder and then on to Fish Creek, which is probably 8-10 miles north of the small hamlet.\u00a0 I got a chuckle reading this sign on a “store” along the road in Hyder.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They are now charging $5 to enter the boardwalk at Fish Creek, and for $10 you got a three-day pass.\u00a0\u00a0 There were so many salmon in the creek, I couldn’t believe there wouldn’t be a zillion bears \"\"<\/a>having dinner,\u00a0 but we didn’t see one.<\/p>\n

We left and headed back toward Stewart.\u00a0\u00a0 I had read about a great place to eat, so I drove by it on the way back.\u00a0\u00a0 We checked out The Bus.\u00a0 It didn’t look like much and I wasn’t expecting our compatriots were impressed. \u00a0 We kept driving and \"\"<\/a>arrived at the Canadian Border crossing.\u00a0\u00a0 The gal took our passports and ran them thru her handheld machine and appeared to be make notes as she asked the usual questions:\u00a0 weapons, alcohol and cannibis products.\u00a0\u00a0 After she was finished, I asked her where the good food is in the area and she immediately said it was at The Bus.\u00a0\u00a0 She also mentioned the Prince Edward Hotel, but qualified that with, it just turned into a Chinese restaurant.<\/p>\n

As we drove off, we started discussing our dinner plans for The Bus.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Each day we made at least two trips to Fish Creek to see the \"\"<\/a> bears.\u00a0 The fish were starting to die and a couple days in it started getting a bit smelly with all the rotting fish on the banks of the creek.\u00a0\u00a0 I think it was the second evening when we finally saw a bear, although it was very briefly as he was eating berries and didn’t get into the water.\u00a0 He was on the other side of the blue lagoon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I had been noticing logging trucks driving past the \"\"<\/a>campground for a couple days and decided to take a drive down that road to see where they were going.\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn’t far, but there was a port area that had lots of trees piled up, ready for shipment to China and Japan.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the workers told me a cargo ship came in about once a month to load them and take them on their way.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I wanted to go to see Salmon Glacier, which was about \"\"<\/a>25 miles past Fish Creek on a gravel road.\u00a0\u00a0 No one else wanted to go, assuming there would be a really rough road.\u00a0 Luckily for me that wasn’t the case and it was one of the most spectacular drives I had ever been on.\u00a0 The scenery was \"\"<\/a>like what I’d expect to see in the Alps once we get there.\u00a0\u00a0 And at the summit the view was indescribable.\u00a0\u00a0 The road did get really narrow at \"\"<\/a>one point, and there were a few areas of potholes, but most were easily driven around.\u00a0 Most of the road appeared to have been \"\"<\/a>recently graded, except for the narrow area that appeared to have recently had a slide of dirt come down the hillside.\u00a0 I wouldn’t take my motor home up there, but any car can get there easily.\u00a0 It’s worth the drive.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The last evening we were going to be in town we drove to The Bus for dinner again (3rd time)\u00a0 for our last \"\"<\/a>halibut fish and chips.\u00a0 It’s right up there with the best Halibut I have had.\u00a0\u00a0 The first night Kathy and Sue had the halibut cheeks,\u00a0 what we heard are the best part of a halibut.\u00a0 The taste was out of this world.<\/p>\n

After dinner Larry \"\"<\/a>drove us out to Fish Creek for the last time, and as we came around a small bend in the road, a black bear moseyed out in front of us.\u00a0 We were going slow (the speed limit there is 20 MPH) and we just watched him cross about 10 feet in front of us.<\/p>\n

When we got to the creek, there was the smell again and noticeably fewer fish in the creek.\u00a0\u00a0 There were no bears and I figured the one we saw, which was heading away from the creek, was the one we had seen the prior evening.<\/p>\n

We headed back to the border crossing for what I think will be the last crossing back into Canada for this trip.<\/p>\n

In the morning we headed out in the bright sunshine for the drive up the mountain to Meziadin Jct.<\/p>\n

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We registered and pulled into our campsites in the Bear River campground around 3pm.\u00a0\u00a0 It was still raining a bit and the roadway was pretty muddy.\u00a0 Luckily the sites were well- drained gravel and there was nice grass on each side.\u00a0 They did have a funny arrangement for the utilities I had not seen prior.\u00a0\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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