Todays route: Stewart BC to Hyder AK back to Stewart then to Mezadin Junction to Kitwanga to Smithers to Burns Lake to Vanderhoof. Temps for the day between 13C to 18C.
Woke up to partly cloudy skies today in Stewart BC so we got a chance to see the mountains around the town. We drove across the US-Canada border again into Hyder Alaska about 3 km away. The Salmon Glacier was another 37 km up a gravel road but we did not have time to ride up there.........too bad. The ride out of Stewart on Hwy 37A was spectacular as we had good weather going out. The road wound down thru the mountains with glaciers and fans of snow. We also had to stop to let a family of 4 bears cross the road. It started raining lightly at Kitwanga where we stop for home-made pie and coffee.
The plan today was to overnight in Prince George but that didnt happen. We hit the "Mother Of All" rain storm just outside of Burns Lake. Rain came down in sheets with howling winds, and thunder and lightning (it was actually quite spectacular to be riding thru it). We slowed down and got to Vanderhoof at 9:30pm. We decided that descretion was better part of valour and decide to call it a day there; this will make tomorrow a very long day for the ride home. This was a good test of all the waterproof motorcycle equipment we had..........the gloves failed.
Mountains just behind our motel.
Downtown Stewart
Mike starting breakfast without me.
Riding to Hyder.
Entering Hyder
Rode out on a wooden pier. 
Group picture
Mud flats
Mike writing postcards from Hyder
Crossing the Canadian border back into Stewart. There was no US border checkpoint
to go thru going into Hyder.
Bald eagle in tree.
Riding out Hwy 37A
Glacier
Huge snow fan at bottom of chute
Closeup of snow fan
Mike and Bear Glacier.
OK so we took a lot of pictures of Bear Glacier.
More glaciers on top mountain 
4 bears crossing road......2 in ditch on left side of road.
One of the bears munching on grass on other side of road.
Getting into Burns Lake. You can see the big rain clouds up ahead..........an ominous sign as it turned out.
Mud flats
Mike writing postcards from Hyder
Crossing the Canadian border back into Stewart. There was no US border checkpointto go thru going into Hyder.
Bald eagle in tree.
Riding out Hwy 37A
Glacier
Huge snow fan at bottom of chute
Closeup of snow fan
Mike and Bear Glacier.
OK so we took a lot of pictures of Bear Glacier.
More glaciers on top mountain 4 bears crossing road......2 in ditch on left side of road.
One of the bears munching on grass on other side of road.
Getting into Burns Lake. You can see the big rain clouds up ahead..........an ominous sign as it turned out.
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