7/24/17 At the western waters of BC we stayed at a Meziadin Lake after visiting Stewart, CA and Hyder, AK on a spur road. Glaciers and wild silt rivers. Though we always seek boondocks sites….sometimes one has to go to a Park and “Camp” … the word camp is wrong it is something that should be derived from the word sloth… these ‘campers’ are larger than grey hound busses and have a car or suv towed behind… they punch out their walls and are larger than my house inside. Fat cats of the road…I call them ‘roadbarns’ …if there is not an electric hookup and a blackwater dump at the “camp site”  they run their gasoline generators and ‘rough it’ …heck maybe no satellite wifi and streaming tonight!… These guys are ruining our parks…. money spent accommodating retirement villages when the money should be used saving the salmon runs and bear habitat. (we are doomed). 

BUT… a weird fluke was we were stuck and had to pull in to one of these… all sites taken by the behemoths … except one guy had parked in two spaces and he was so big no-one knew. We squeezed in and slept… bugged out in the AM. We found the First Nation’s fishing village out a dirt road… on a wild stream/river… huts set up and a man came out of the temporary hut to say we were welcome….we walked to the dam where the returning salmon were forced after exhausting themselves trying to jump the fall to venture up the fish ladder and on to spawn. They were so driven jumping against the torrent. We had seen the bear in the stream eating the fish … the females using their tail fins to dig a hole in the stream bed only a foot deep and the males trying to out maneuver each other around her waiting for her to deposit her eggs. So primal and so fast going away. 

We sped on down through a big change in scenery on the Yellowhead Highway towards Alberta… now cattle and fields… but before this we went into the village who has the last 20 standing Totem poles… extremely impressive but sad to see the village struggling to get by.

Tonight I type at the Fraser Lake Provincial camping ($8)… just a local site to sleep the night.

Tomorrow we head into perhaps, Alberta... Mount Robson area. We hope to camp and hike; then south thereafter. We have seen many black bears of many hues but not yet the Grizzlies… that would be fine if not… they need their space and we should give it to them.