40 miles west of nowhere off the Cassiar Highway in western British Columbia lies the little town of Stewart. It must be some sort of fishing village. With Bear River access to the Pacific Ocean, it lies at the intersection of the Bear River (Stewart side) and the Salmon River (Hyder Side). It's another one of those locations that you may have seen in photos. In Hyder, just across the Alaskan border (about as far south on the Alaskan panhandle as you can get, lies a US Forest Service boardwalk from which you might see grizzly and/or black bears feasting on salmon. They (the salmon) had just begun running a few weeks before. Bears had been seen, but sadly we missed them. But we did see the fish.
Rain, a staple of the area helped grow the largest Sitka spruce trees we had seen. 10 feet in diameter at least.
This is a little tributary of the Salmon River.
Chum Salmon...also called Dog Salmon. They are reportedly twice the normal size in this river. The two in this photo exceed 24 inches long.
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