Day 5 - Hyder to Watson Lake or Bear Bingo

This morning at 6am we headed out of Hyder for Watson Lake some 400 miles up the Cassiar Highway. Our game today was to play "Bear Bingo". The game works like this: The leader of the pack sees a bear and if it's confirmed by at least one other person, then the leader goes to the back of the pack and the next person comes to the front. And so on. We do this through 4 bears and Neil is leading and calls out on the CB, "Fox on the left!" with great excitement in his voice. The three of us don't see the fox, but we see 3 magnificant large blonde grizzly bears standing on their haunches looking at us. And Neil didn't even see them. And I was so excited to see them, I forgot to take a picture.

We rode on up the Cassiar and the scenery is simply breath taking and large. The following picture doesn't begin to do it justice.



We made a number of stops along the way and one of the best was at Jade City where we really enjoyed ourselves.



Welcome to the Yukon:



More proof 60th parallel:




We have made Watson Lake and found a great campground at Nugget City, enjoyed a sumptuous ribeye steak dinner at the restaurant at camp and then headed into Watson Lake to see the Signpost Forest and refuel for our morning 300 mile ride to Skagway to catch the ferry to Haines.

Dinner:



At the SignPost Forest:

With my Sidestandup.com shirt on:



Seattle sign:


Well, it's after 11 and helmet time is 6am, so I need to sign off for today. Hopefully, I can get an internet connection tomorrow.