A 12 hour day of riding for me. Cold and wet until noon then very nice cool weather with some sunshine.
9 bears today, one of them a fur-ball cub that could not have been more than a few weeks old. The Cassiar Hwy is known for high bear sitings. A few years back, I saw 22 bears on the Cassiar in one day.
I first rode to Stewart BC then rode 1 mile north and was in Alaska again.. Stewart and Hyder share a shallow bay, open to the pacific.,
Hyder has the distinction of being the only US border crossing without a border inspection or customs presents, it probably has less than a hundred full time residents, and Is only assessable from Stewart. I first stopped at the Blue Bus for a delicious halibut sandwich. The owner told me just 2 nights before a bear had broken in and eaten all her food and drinking six Coca-Cola. The broken window the only serious damage, life can be tough in Alaska.
I then continued up a 20 mile gravel road to the Salmon Glacier.
Gassed up in Stewert then continued on to Terrace BC
Easy day tomorrow just 90 miles to Prince Rupert B C to take the ferry to Port Hardy Vancouver Island.
The Cassiar Hwy is the length of California and does not have even one of what you could call a village. None.
British Columbia is one huge Province. The northern part still not having summer while the southern part is burning up with heat and wildfires.
There are many bridges in Alaska and Canada, many riders fear these steel grate bridges but they are quite easy to master as long as you just ignore the small wobbling, the moto will straighten itself out without interference, save your fears for the steel plate bridges as the one in the Whittier Alaska railroad tunnel or the many wooden bridges found along the highways. When wet these are both deadly.

Riding steel grate bridge