Two riders on the Canadian roads

Now that we had left Haines, our last big stop in Alaska with our bikes, our goal was to ride through Canada and be in Vancouver by September 8th the latest. We will be meeting Chad's Dad there and embark on a 7-day cruise through the Inside Passage. So we would see Alaska one more time but from a boat. In the meantime, we would need to cover some grounds and average about 300 miles per day to make to Vancouver on time. There, we will meet one of Chad's friends and leave our bikes at his place, where they would take a well deserved brake.

The raining will continue until morale improves

We knew that all this riding would not necessarily be a piece of cake as we would be riding through pretty vast and empty areas, potentially with bad road conditions. As we left Haines, the rain had finally stopped. However, a small landslide had taken a portion of the road that was therefor closed while been cleaned off. We were lucky enough to be waived in by the workers and rode around the remaining mud. Well, at least, it was not raining anymore. Once we entered Canada, the weather improved; we could even see some blue sky but it was still pretty cold.

That night, we made it to Whitehorse where we camped. As we woke up the next day, a beautiful blue cloudless sky welcomed us. We were finally going to get some warm sunshine on us. The ride that day was amazing: after 3 days of rain, we now remembered why we took this trip. Nothing beats an endless road, through amazing landscape and the sun shining on you. We felt so happy that day, grateful for the return of the sun.

Beautiful Cassiar Highway

As we were riding the Alaskan Highway, before reaching Watson Lake, we took a turn right to and went south on route 37: this well-know Highway, the Cassiar Highway, was recommended to us by many riders who explored the area. We rode for an other hour and then stopped at a Provincial campground, next to the Bayo Lake. We had a wonderful view from our campsite directly on the lake and watched the nearby hills in the sunset. If the road was going to be as nice as this, we would enjoy it for sure. The next day, same weather again: we were excited about another day riding in the sun and happy that we would not have to ride the gravel portions under the rain. We passed the Cassiar mountains, continuing south, passing perfect little lakes, pine forest, high peeks and riding on these fun steel bridges. As we were getting later in the day, we saw three black bears on the side of the road. We were convinced at first that they were rocks but when the first one moved and looked at Caroline, we knew we had to be more cautious about upcoming “black stones”. We arrived at our next campsite, on a lake again with a great view. It really does not get better than this in terms of accommodation.

Hopefully, the rest of the Canadian journey will be under nice weather. It really makes a huge difference for us when riding do much every day: not only is is less tiring on our bodies but we also enjoy the long rides so much more, and with music in our ears while riding, we are constantly amazed by the beauty and size of British Columbia.