Day
56 – 7-6-15 Monday We packed up and departed about 8:30AM, breezed
through the Canadian Customs after answering the standard questions
about weapons, food, where are you going, etc. We stopped at the only
fuel station in Stewart to fuel up the motor home. I was surprised at
the price of the fuel ($1.129 Canadian @ liter) not that it was
cheap but a lot cheaper than we have bought in several Canadian towns
on the Alaska Highway and Stewart is a long way from anywhere.
The
drive in/out of Stewart is very scenic, with waterfalls, rushing
rivers and glaciers. We stopped at Bear Glacier to get some photos
before moving on. We drove for 220 miles on the Cassier Highway and
we passed by one local business and one big logging operation and
nothing else but trees and a few lakes. No houses, no sign of
civilization until we got to Katwanga British Columbia. We did see
one black bear just off the pavement on the right. He had his head
and shoulders up above the vegetation like he was coming out onto the
road. I'm sure glad he didn't jump out on the road because we didn't
see him until just before we got to him. It would have been a bad day
for both him and us.
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| Bear Glacier |
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| Bear Glacier |
At
noon we stopped near Skeena Crossing in a road pull out to fix
lunch. After lunch we drove on to Smithers. Before we got to Smithers
a car passed us on a nice smooth road and a rock came up from the car
and put another chip in the windshield. That makes 5 chips and none
on any of the bad roads, all on the good roads. We saw several logs
trucks near Katwanga and several trucks with fresh milled lumber.
There is a lot of woods to log in the area. The area around Smithers
on both sides of town has lots and lots of hay fields. Several fields
had already been cut and baled in the large round bales and some were
the old style square bales. Several fields were being cut or had just
been cut. But we only saw a few cows and horses so I don't know what
eats all the hay unless they are in fields away from the road.
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| Fry Cake roadside stand where we stopped for lunch but it was closed |
We
could tell the temperature was getting warmer the nearer we got to
Smithers. We finally turned the motor home A/C on for the first time
this trip. We had planned to stay at a city owned campground in
Smithers but when we drove to it, we were not impressed. There was
only one site that was available that I would have even considered so
we left. I just don't understand why the people that build
campgrounds can't get the sites somewhat level and install the
hookups where they should be on the sites. We left and drove on down
the Yellowhead Highway and stopped at another campground and turned
around and left it also. It was better but there were others to
choose from on down the road so we left. It was right beside the
Yellowhead Highway that has a lot of traffic. We drove about 30 miles
and stopped in Houston BC at Shady Rest RV Park about 3PM and got a
back-in site under some spruce trees in the shade. All the pull thru
sites were in the sun and by this time it was over 80 degrees. The
clerk said it is not normally this hot. We hooked up and turned on
the air conditioning for maybe the second time on this trip.
We
could have stayed at one of the Government Provincial Parks in the
area but they don't have hookups and we needed a full hookup so we
could get the laundry caught up and stay cool.
While
we were eating supper a motor home came into the campground pulling a
open trailer. On the lower level of the trailer was a home freezer, a
bicycle and a car. On the top level above all that was a boat and
motor, probably 16' long, on a trailer with a ramp system for getting
the boat up there.
I
repaired the windshield chip with one of two chip repair kits I
brought with me.
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