Quote Originally Posted by Lifemagician View Post
Hope you make it to AK. Awesome trip, awesome country. And although I said this was my last trip to AK, somehow, part of me is not accepting that.

We'll see!

Lifey
Thanks!

The only trip I made to Alaska was to Hyder along part of the route you took. Back in September '02 I took my wife and 2 1/2 year old daughter in a ex-police car I bought for the trip (the trunk could hold lots of luggage, and it had a 20+ gallon fuel tank). Your notes and photos brought back memories of that trip. Did you stop in Kitwanga to see the totem poles? We stayed at the Ripley Creek Inn in Stewart and just barely made it back to Kitwanga on the tank of gas we got there on the way to Stewart. In September there were a number of tents along the Stewart-Cassiar Highway offering halibut fish & chips, also. I thought that odd.

We took the trip because I read somewhere that the only unrestricted bear viewing area in the United States that you could drive to was in Hyder (the other one you'd have to fly to). It was also the closest part of Alaska I could drive to so I could add Alaska to the list of states I've visited. In May it must have been impossible to drive the road up to the Salmon Glacier, but I thought it a side trip worth the effort. By the end of the trip I think my wife and daughter were tired of listening to Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska" and "When It's Springtime in Alaska" I brought along on his greatest-hits CD.