{"id":21649,"date":"2009-10-16T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T05:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2016-09-12T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:45:07","slug":"somewhere-on-the-stewart-cassiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/somewhere-on-the-stewart-cassiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere on the Stewart-Cassiar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The night on the Tanzilla River was chilly, but I’d bundled up and was quite comfortable. It’s amazing how being just 200km due south of somewhere brings you into a new climate. The morning was overcast, damp, and snowy, but warm.\u00a0I puttered around outside for a bit and then came in to make bannock and a pot of coffee, relishing the fact that I could leave as late as I wanted. I read for a couple of hours and headed out shortly before noon.<\/p>\n

I thought it would be an uneventful exit from the campground. I just had to back the toad onto the laneway, drive Miranda carefully around the trees, hook up, and go. The first part of that plan ended with a thud as I backed the toad right smack into a tree. Why, praytell, can I back up a 31′ motorhome with blind spots the size of New Jersey and never hit anything, but backing up a small car ends up with damage more often than not?! Oh, the toad was just fine, not even a scratch or dent on it, but that poor tree. :LOL:<\/p>\n

The next town was Iskut, where I gassed up at a station that was super easy to get in and out of. Like at all BC gas stations, there was a sign indicating that I needed to prepay, so I went in and asked to be charged for 150$ worth of fuel. The lady would not run my card through, disbelieving that I could take on that much. She told me to go fill up as much as I could while she held on to my card. Of course, I was able to take on that much fuel. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

The day was all about scenery. I stopped at a rest area at Bob Quinn Lake where I met an Alaskan part-timer, a feisty dame named Lynn who travels in a spacious class B with her adorable little dog Maya. Lynn has ‘been Outside fifty-six or fifty-seven times’, spending her winters somewhere warmer than Alaska. This day, she was zipping along as she was on schedule to be in northern Washington state in a few days. Our paths crossed a few more times, but she eventually left me in the dust shortly after the junction of the Cassiar (route 37) and the road leading to Hyder, Alaska (37A).<\/p>\n

I planned to stop at an RV park called Bell 2 which promised 15A hookups, but changed my mind when they informed me that their rates were 31.50$. For 15A!!!!!!!! I was already tired by this point, but I decided to push on in the hopes of finding another cheap legal option. Coming close to six, with only a half hour of light left, I gave up and pulled off the highway at a turn out. It wound up being much too sloped and I resigned myself to continuing in the dark since the Milepost indicated that there would be no more turnouts for a great distance. Thankfully, it was wrong, as it occasionally is, and just a few clicks down the road I found a nice flat turnout, the far side of which was a respectable distance from the road.<\/p>\n

Dinner was fettucini with homemade ros\u00e9e sauce primavera. Who says that just because you’re spending the night on the side of the highway you can’t eat a first class dinner? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

The highlight of the evening was the incredible fuschia sunset I watched for almost a full half hour.<\/p>\n

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Don’t be fooled by the snow; the road was in great shape and it was a pleasure to drive.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is one of my favourite landscapes; something about the white and the leaden sky and the trees for contrast…<\/p><\/div>\n

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So beautiful<\/p><\/div>\n

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Go RVing! In winter!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I was less than an hour from Tanzilla when the landscape and climate changed abruptly.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lynn with Maya<\/p><\/div>\n

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Red lights in the wilderness amuse me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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The turnout I was very grateful to find<\/p><\/div>\n

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