7-31-09
I mentioned bike riders in my last post, shortly after leaving the Whitehorse area we talked to a young couple on their bikes which were loaded with all kinds of gear. They were from Austria. There plan was to ride from Fairbanks AK to Argentina. When asked how long they expected the trip to take they answered 1 ½ years. I can't imagine doing a trip like that, I would be done before reaching the top of the first hill. Even if it was downhill all the way I wouldn't want to do it.
We spent the last two nights in roadside rest areas as we came down the Cassiar Highway. There are few services and not many RV Parks on this highway, the one we did check wanted $22 to dry camp.We chose the roadside rest that are free. These are quiet and a lot of people use them. We quickly learned that the mosquitoes like these places as well. Despite all our screens and carefulness they seem to get inside. We both suffered many bites and learned anything that was not covered would get bit.
Today we arrived at Hyder AK and we are staying at the camp Run-a-muck RV park. Hyder looks like a town from 50 yrs ago, there are lots of rundown houses and many closed businesses.
Tonight after dinner we went to what is called the Boardwalk. It's on the edge of Fish River. It's a place where you can see the bears feeding on the spawning salmon. We saw hundreds of salmon and 3 bears. The bears seemed full and lazy, although they walked up and down the river the only thing we saw one of them eat was the carcass of an already dead salmon. It was quite a sight and we have lots of pictures and some video of the bears. Although there were lots of salmon they were in the water and do not show well on the camera.
We also ran into Bob & Pat and talked to them for a short time, you may recall they left our group a few weeks ago.
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