Daily Didactic
The day began early in the pleasantly wooded Blue Spruce Campground. We aimed the bus west by 7:00, with a mind toward making some miles before we called it a night. The day's drive consisted of two very different sections of road. The first three hundred miles were the very nice, very scenic Yellowhead Highway. This road travels through farm land and forest from Prince George to Prince Rupert. About two thirds of the way to Prince Rupert is the road north to Kitwanga, the southern end of the "Cassiar Cutoff". The Cassiar Highway is a 450 mile stretch of road that leads to Watson Lake, and is a few hundred miles shorter than going north from Prince George through Dawson Creek. The trade off is that the Cassiar has always been a much rougher road. In the past the gravel part of the Cassiar has been considerable, but with every trip it has been a little less and couldn't have been more than 30 miles today.

We drove about half way up the Cassiar and called it a reasonably early evening at a campground we had enjoyed on a trip up three years ago, just north of Iskut.

Daily Pictures (Slide Show)

Morning at the Blue Spruce in Prince George		Today's potential, from Prince George toward Watson Lake
The road through Vanderhoof, the bus blew a piston at this intersection once		A black bear sow and two cubs
A ridiculous tourist with a camcorder, offering himself up for lunch		Yet another pretty river crossing
Perhaps not well packaged hay bales, but actually silage. Or so we hear.		A marginal shot of the very photogenic Moricetown Canyon
The bus, rubbernecking at the falls		If our vehicle is questionable on these roads, these vehicles look downright unpleasant
The junction north to the Cassiar Highway		At least half of the Cassiar bridges are still one lane
The scenic Moss River		At Mezidian Junction, the road north
Theresa loves those braided rivers		He told us to pass, really
Scenic roadside shot		dirt...
...and rain...		...make mud

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