From the King Edward....

I've set up my 'office' in the King Edward Hotel restaurant - computer on one side of me, corned chowder on the other! Really good internet here so this is a chance to upload pics before we head out into the wilderness again. We stop at Hazelton next and don't expect to have services - just beauty!
We are in Stewart now but went across the border into Hyder this morning in the faint hopes we'd see grizzlies gorging on salmon. Turns out that although bears have been here recently (and are still around town raiding gardens) their main meal,  chum, arrive as early as July here so we are out of luck.
But we are finding it interesting anyway. We are in the middle of west coast temperate rainforest - the trees are dripping with lichen and old man's beard, clouds are low on the mountainsides and in no time there will be big snows - the average is 18 feet. We asked the woman at the border (Canadian) about living here - she likes to snowmobile!
Hyder (the American side) is literally falling down but Stewart is doing better - there is a port here (furthest north port that stays open year-round) and mining and logging. But the waitress and woman at the desk of the hotel are both out of here at the end of the week - they say the town will be deserted by then.

Bear-viewing platform sans bears

Stewart side - Hyder is worse

Bear country