Things have been going well in here ol' Canada! In the past few days we have been covering quite a bit of ground. As we drove through British Columbia we quickly realized once we got away from the Canadian/US border that there is little to nothing around. Most of our days have entailed driving through dense forest, along snowy mountain ranges and frozen lakes. To say the least it has been beautiful but it's typically at least 100km between any kind of civilization. We took Hwy 37 up through British Columbia and probably over 600-700km there was only about 3,000 people. Even though there were few people there were lots of animals! Our first wildlife encounter took us a little by surprise. As Adam was driving, we were trying to figure out the lyrics to "Let it Go" from Frozen (because why not? What else did we have to do?) and we look over and we drive right past a black bear on the side of the road!! We stared it as we passed and then it took us about 10 seconds to realize what just happened! It was very exciting and very terrifying at the same time! Probably 50km down the road we saw another black bear and this time we saw it in time to slow down and take a few pictures. After that the animals came out of the woodwork...literally. We saw a bobcat, moose, several caribou, an artic fox and several different birds. As if that wasn't exciting enough we took a brief detour from the highway to experience Hyder, AK which is accessible from Canada! The drive to Hyder was roughly 35 miles and was without a doubt the prettiest drive of the whole trip. Mountains on both sides, glaciers (Ashley was quite excited about those to say the least), beautiful braided stream, and too many waterfalls to count! Getting into Alaska was easy, literally no border patrol and Hyder was neat! However, going back into Canada we got the third degree. Lots of questions but of course none about the camper. We finally made it back into Canada headed for Watson Lake, Yukon where we saw the infamous sigh forest. Now we are heads off towards Alaska, more to come soon!
-The A-Team
Oh, I am Sooo jealous. Grandpa counted the waterfalls and I think it is 37. I'll ask. Did you stay at RunAmuck?? You are making good time! Many moose? And, hey, it's the brown bear you have to not stop and take pics of. The black ones are grumpy, but the brown ones will eat you. Just sayin'.
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