Days 19 and 20

Tuesday evening after we posted a guy from the Czech Republic living in Vancouver rode in on a Ural with side car and camped next to us. He had come up the Cassiar that day and had seen 8 bears on the way up. The Ural looked kind of fun but he said it gets poor gas mileage and the side car makes for a rough ride. It did have two wheel drive which came in handy when he got stuck in a construction area.

On Wednesday (I think, the days are running together) we rode from near Watson Lake down the Cassiar to Hyder Alaska, 399 miles. I only saw two bears which ran off the road when they saw me so Ron did not get to see them. We did see a truck on its top. We can not figure how it ended up where it did.

There is a place on Fish Creek where the Forest Service has build a viewing area for when the Salmon are running and the bears feed on the fish to put on weight for the winter. It begins sometime in July and ends in September. We happen to be early. There is a report that four fish made it upstream and a bear made short work of them but that has been all.

We rode up to the Salmon Glacier and Ron changed his oil while I looked at my air filter. We will eat dinner at The Bus, which is a bus turned into a fish place, and get some Halibut fish-n-chips.

We are camped behind the bar/campground and put our food in the laundry room at night so the bears will not come around, hopefully. We are armed though, rocks, a hatchet and a machete make up our arsenal. We will head over to the town dump to look for bears later.