Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 161

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 161

Alaska – Canada

8/9/09 – Traveling the Cassiar Highway to Boya Lake

We decide that we are not going to return to Valdez on our way back.  The Silvers have not started running in an area that we can reach and the weather is a tad chilly.  We decide to go to Hyder to check out the bears. We really want to see a lot more bears.  We leave Glennallen early, around 10 am, and we plan to head towards Tok taking a different route then the one we came in on.  Unfortunately, we had turned Brutilla off, were involved in a riveting conversation and we missed the turn.  We discovered our error and Sam was able to turn around and again head back toward Glennallen.  I am beginning to think that we have a deep, meaningful link to this town that defies all rational reason.  Or we are just dits. Anyway, we have to go almost all the way back to Glenallen to get onto the right highway.  We just make the turn onto the Tok Cutoff when we make an immediately stop for coffee.  We hit the road again pretty close to noon.   We decide we are not in a hurry.

OK Sam - Can You See The Road?

Going on this highway, should have given us excellent views of the Wrangell Mountains and the active volcanoes in the range.  We saw clouds, rain, and lots of smoke. The wild fires were still burning wild.  We make it back to Kluane Lake, where we think about stopping, but Sam is on a roll now and we decide to continue on down the road.  We have seen much of this area in great weather and are anxious to either see something new or at least find the sun.   We eat in Whitehorse and travel on.  We reach Upper Liard and the Junction to the Cassiar Highway.  Right at the Junction, they have a big sign screaming that you can buy fishing licenses for British Columbia there.  I only tell you this so that you will know how anguished we are later as we scurry to find another location to get licenses.  We enter the Cassiar Highway feeling a little over confident.  After all, we have been all over this continent on this adventure.  We should know better by now.

Pretty - But I Want More Light 

The Cassiar Highway starts off by being a bad road. One that gets worse.  After traveling about fifty miles, we yelp “Uncle!” and look for a place to camp.  We find one at the Boya Lake Provincial Campground.  We are in British Columbia right here and now, although we are on our way to Hyder, Alaska.