The Cassiar Highway is an alternate route to the Alaskan Highway. It is suppose to cut about 130 miles off of the Alaskan Highway route. Many people drive this one way coming or going. The scenery is pretty -- pine forests, Cassiar Mountains, rivers and lakes. Two reasons to come this way: 1. Its a different route that we haven't driven before; and 2. Stewart, BC/Hyder, AK is along here. This destination will ensure that we see bears fishing for salmon (we hope!).
If we drove straight thru to Stewart, we wouldn't arrive until after 8 PM so we stopped at Kinaskan Provincial Park on Kinaskan Lake. It is so beautiful here. I built a roaring fire after supper and we thoroughly enjoyed warming our knees by a crackling and popping fire while listening to the sounds of nature around us. One of those sounds is the family of four next to us talking and laughing as they prepare for bed in their tent.
We saw another bear along the road today as well as a group of Stone Sheep as they were preparing to cross the road. A bird was on the road but I'm not sure if it was a grouse or a ptarmigan.
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