This is the border between the USA and Canada. The border is guarded by Canadian Customs.

We stop to pick up postage stamps aat the most interesting post office I have ever seen. Those are moose antlers above the bear.

We are too early in the year to see the bears, who come down to Fish Creek when the salmon arrive to spawn. We are sorry to miss them but the whole area is so interesting that we don't mind. More about the local bears here.

There are warnings everywhere about staying clear of the bears, some very serious........

and some funny but equally serious.

We should have been able to tell from this notice that the road to the glacier would be an interesting ride.

Sure is. Going up we are staying as close to the rock face as possible. There is a six hundred foot drop at the edge of that gravel in the picture.

It was worth it. We have never seen anything as amazing. The ice is blue and cracked into crevasses. The glacier reaches fron the top of the mountain down to the valley floor in a frozen torrent.

We are taking a lot of photographs! Right at the top of the mountain we meet Keith Scott who spends days up there, living in a small tent and acting as an unofficial guide.

He has autographed his book "Great Bears of Hyder AK and Stewart BC" for me and talked about his experiences.

Fascinating!

And, folks, this is Canada, a very practical and convenient place.

Right on top of the pass, way up over the valley, as you turn to head back from the majestic glacier.....

Back at the border, here is Derek with the original 19th century marker between the two countries.

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