"As I just read "Hyder/Seward": There is a beautiful boondocking up the road at the parking-lot and viewpoint to Salmon Glacier.
You'll have this view:
https://www.tripadvi...der_Alaska.html
As we drove it (3-times) the road was very bad, but the last time they seemed to build up the road because in the backcountry they where building a "mine", for whatever they found there, I couldn't get the information.
But this road involves a border-crossing into Alaska. As we went in there were no border-controll. But the way out the Canadians stopped us and asked all the questions as if it was a big border. We had to laugh, because one of the question was "what did you buy in America", but on the american site no shop or restaurant was open. It is a ghost town. And the customs officier for sure did know this."
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Same experience...Hyder and road up to Salmon Glacier is well worth the effort to get there; beautiful country...no customs going back into US / Hyder and the shack serving as customs coming back into Canada was...well we had a very distasteful event....could not see anybody at the border building, stopped, looked around, started to pull out and a VERY loud siren cranked up...stopped immediately and backed up and a full body armor, armed to the gills Valkyrie appeared and started yelling at us [our windows were down] that "in Canada, stop means stop and what does it mean in Oregon"? She said that she was ready to start in pursuit and the fine could be $2,000 for not stopping...tried to explain we stopped, but she was not listening and my wife nudged me to relent ..I am a retired LEO and she was way over the line; but she held all the cards; as the saying goes "Mess with the bull and you get the horn"...grilled us for 10mins determined to nail me, without success; I offered nothing for her to push against...honestly, it really spoiled much of that part of the trip...nothing against Canadians but some, not all, feel Americans are rich, gun loving, arrogant assholes....coming into Canada at Idaho border I had spent 25 mins trying explain to RCMP Bardal [honest that was his name] that my permit for bringing in a shotgun was valid and that we were boondocking for weeks in bear country with no way to escape our Hawk FWC if a bear wanted in badly enough; hence the shotgun...same, same, he repeated over and over that park rangers would provide for our safety and firearms were never needed; notwithstanding that we were boondocking...finally, put my requisite money on top of the permit and pushed it across the counter to him...and I stopped trying to explain my rationale...we took the shotgun in and out without any other fanfare.
No desire to belly bump with Canadians on this forum or in country; 99+% are great folks....but keep your head down and your situational awareness up...contentious contacts everywhere seem to be becoming more the norm; there and here.
Docent/manager at bear watching site/structure in Hyder was a super guy and very informative.
Phil
Edited by Wallowa, 10 January 2023 - 07:33 PM.