July 15 we headed up the road from Hyder to the summit above Salmon Creek Glacier. The road combined the worst of all the other roads we traveled. Gravel, rugged with ridges, steep up and down, twisting and very narrow with tremendous roadside cliffs straight down. It wasn't much fun. Photo 1 shows, behind the truck, the steep winding road that we have been following and snow packs still at that elevation. Photo 2 shows the thickness of some of the ice packs and many are melting from the underside and could slide right out across the road. Photo 3 shows more of the winding narrow road, the steep drop off and snow. Going up we noticed a hole, thank goodness, on the downhill side and someone had stuck a limb in it to mark it. The hole is about 3 feet across, 4 feet deep with a tunnel 2 feet to the right and the steep dropoff. Photo 5 is just one of the outstanding views we would encounter as we rounded a turn and looked across the deep valley at the mountains. Coming down was a little less intimidating, and as much as we would have liked to see the glacier again, neither one of us wanted to experience that road again. We went late in the afternoon to avoid the crowds and luckily we met only one car coming or going.
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