Sunday, February 22, 2015

Day Five: Prince Rupert to Hyder AK

Prince Rupert to Hyder AK



Prince Rupert's sheltered harbour is the deepest ice-free natural harbour in North America, and the 3rd deepest natural harbour in the world ranging from 34 to 44 meters. We will move on from here to Meziadin Lake, one of the many Lakes that seem to go on forever, and with amazing shorelines I feel like we could stay and explore areas like these for a week at a time, so beautiful!


Next we head to through Stewart to Hyder, in 2013 I stopped at the junction of 37 and 37A the Glacier Hwy wondering what I am going to miss not going to Hyder,  Im glad to be traveling this way today. A little history, In 2013 I was Traveling with live long friend Tim, and as we approached this intersection we were introduced to the Mobile Gas Station outposts, (you have to apply right there on the spot, take a test and “pass” then get approved for an authorization code so that you can operate the pump, its all automated and there is no attendant or phone number to call if it does not work, well Tim was denied “Oh SiHt) well after that expereance we thought it best to keep to plan and work our way north. Well not this trip we want to see this area!
Hyder was established in 1907 as Portland City, after the canal.[3] In 1914, when the US Post Office Department told residents that there were many U.S. communities named Portland, it was renamed Hyder, after Frederick Hyder, a Canadian mining engineer who envisioned a bright future for the area. Hyder was the only practical point of access to the silver mines in Canada; the community became the port, supply point, and post office for miners by 1917. Hyder's boom years were the 1920s, when the Riverside Mine on the U.S. side extracted gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and tungsten. The mine operated from 1924 to 1950.

It’s not a largely populated Place!




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