Friday, August 17, 2018

Camp Run-a-Muck, Hyder, Alaska


It's been 4 days since I got here and not much has happened. Each day I go up to the viewing platform about 3 miles above town and each day no bears. There are lots of fish – more than anybody's seen in 10 years, but not a single bear has come to feed on them since I've been here.



Those gray oblong shapes lined up with the stream are not rocks, they are all salmon. Each one 2-3 feet long. The stream is like that for the next 200 yards.

Nobody knows why the bears are not feeding on them . Stories like it's been to hot and they are up high abound. My theory is that this is a banner year for fish and all the streams are full. They can eat all they want and not deal with the road or the platform and the associated people.

In the meantime, I did see a bear on the river just outside of town:



And others have seen them on the road, so they are around.

I drove up to see Salmon Glacier yesterday. It's a 20 mile drive up a good gravel road. The drive is worth it:




Along the way, a marmot posed in the road for me:



Today is gray and gloomy and chilly, but the scenery is still spectacular:



I'm here till Tuesday, maybe the bears will show by then, but I'm not hopeful.



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