Stewart B.C/ Hyder Alaska
views of the Salmon Glacier
Reports from Dave Craig that lived in Stewart B.C was that there was a record breaking base and in the past week 5 feet of fresh had fallen. I loaded up the truck to join a caravan of 10 to leave Pemberton on the 16hr drive north. As we made the final push down the Stewart/ Cassiar hwy it was obvious that this was going to be a great trip. The snowbanks were well over our truck, maybe not Simon’s!! 
There were snow cats and huge front end loaders trying to push snow anywhere they could fit it. We spent the first few days riding in Hyder Alaska. It’s a crazy little town that is at the end of a road and is the only US town for miles. It’s truly lawless. There are no State troopers and Canada has no jurisdiction. So the people police the streets on there own. 
Even though we fire up the sleds in Alaska by the time we get to the good riding we’ve travelled back into B.C. The access is easy with mining roads leading to the base of enormous ice fields and huge sub alpine meadows.
The wind hammered the alpine a bit which is normal for this area but the snow in the trees was amazing. The crew of 10+ people was always full of comedy with someone doing something stupid almost at all times.
There was all kinds of great crashes and many hit and runs on trees of all sizes.
digging out the snowbombers cabin
Check out next years 2 Stroke Cold Smoke to see the footage.