June 20, 2011 – Monday - We left Dease Lake this morning and heading for Stewart, British Columbia. We’ll be traveling on Highway 37, which is one of the main routes to and from Yukon and Alaska. The first thing we noticed last night was: It got dark around 10:30p.m. this is so unusual since sunset has been at or around 12:37a.m. We had a little rain this morning and then it started to clear. We saw one moose, one bear full view, and another just the hinny. The last one hundred miles on 37 and 37A was absolutely stunning. First we saw the most amazing assortment of trees and different colors they come in and this makes a beautiful mountain side. We try to capture the fabulous views, but the pictures don’t seem to do justice to the beauty. It is so magnificent here once we turned onto 37A, (The Glacier Highway,) and saw Bear Glacier. This was spectacular to see and photograph and you hate to leave.
The area around Stewart was used as Spring and Fall hunting grounds for the Nass Indians before the white man came into the area. In 1910, the population was around 10,000 people. Stewart now has between 90 to 100 people, and Hyder, Alaska has about 50 people year round.
Stewart has six motion pictures to its credit: (1) The Thing, starring Donald Sutherland, Lloyd Bridges, and Vanessa Redgrave, 1979, (2) The Thing, starring Kurt Russell, 1982, (3) Iceman, starring Timothy Hutton and Jon Lone – 1984, (4)
Leaving Normal, starring Meg Tilly, Christine Lanti and Barbara Russell, 1992, (5) Insomnia, starring Robin Williams, Al Pacino and Hilary Swank, 2002, (6) Eight Below, starring Paul Walker, 2005. Did anyone see one of these?
Here are just a few more facts: Stewart is “Canada’s most northerly ice free port!
and holds the Canadian record for snowfall-27 feet in one season. Also Salmon Glacier is the world’s largest glacier accessible by road, we're going there tomorrow.
Here’s a small summary of where we’ve been. We have been to the most westerly, easterly, and southern points in Alaska that you can drive to!!! Westerly was Anchor Point, Easterly and Southern is Hyder, Alaska. We didn't not as far as we could have north, because the roads are bad, bad, bad!!!!
Tomorrow we are going on a road trip to see the Salmon Glacier, Hyder, Alaska, and bear viewing. Surprised??? We talked to some people today and they said they saw 6 bears and 2 of them were cubs. I’ll let you know. /Marilyn
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