Fantasy Caravan Day 58 - Stewart to Hazelton

On Sunday, we left Stewart/Hyder heading east and a little south toward Hazelton, British Columbia. We re-traced our route on 37A to return to the Cassiar Highway...

We were hoping that we might see some of the views along this highway in clearer weather than when we drove in on Friday... but no success on that!

Bear River Canyon - as described in The Milepost, "narrow, scenic, steep-walled Bear River Canyon; river rushes alongside road to the south."

We stopped again to see Bear Glacier -- maybe a slightly better view than Friday, and you can see the water running down from the glacier into the river.

Continuing east, the sky is looking a little brighter!

Along the Cassier Highway between Meziadin Junction and Yellowhead Highway, from The Milepost: "Hydro power line crosses and parallels highway. Completed in 1990, this line links Stwart to the BC Hydro power grid. Previously, Stewart's power was generated by diesel fuel." Note that Hyder also gets its power from BC Hydro.

When we got to Yellowhead Highway, there was a Petro Canada station that had good prices where we had planned to stop to get diesel. Unfortunately, a number of our group had the same idea and were there ahead of us, and there was no room for us to get in. We decided to go past and find another place further along... but when we turned in front of the station onto Yellowhead Highway heading east, we saw that there was another fuel island at the Petro-Pass part of the fuel station -- a card-lock station. We pulled in and tried our EFS card, and it worked! I radioed the other folks in our caravan who were waiting to fill up to let them know that if they had an EFS card, they may want to try using the Petro-Pass. One of our fellow travelers came over to fill. The cardlock pump had only one hose, so thankfully we were finished as he came over and he was able to go ahead and start his fueling too.

On Yellowhead Highway -- we're starting to see blue skies, and what a beautiful color of the water (with glacier flour in it).

After passing through South Hazelton and skirting the side of New Hazelton, we crossed a one-lane bridge over Hagwilget Canyon of the Bulkley River to Hazelton (or Old Hazelton). According to The Milepost, this canyon "is one of the most photographed places in Canada. A 1-lane bridge spans the canyon on the road to Hazelton, on e of the highest suspension bridges in Canada (spans 460 feet and is 262 feet above the river)."

After getting checked in to 'KSAN Campground, we walked around, and headed down by the river to see the view.

Later in the evening, we gathered for our *last* travel meeting!

We were updated on our route for Monday and the procedures for the campground. It was obvious after the meeting that folks didn't want to disband the meeting -- many stayed around and chatted for a while before heading back to our rigs.

Our caravan is almost over!