2004/06 Yukon trip - Getting there - Cassiar/Morchuea Lake |
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We filled up with gas and water in Stewart and met the Tiger driver again and compared the two vehicles. His is older so it was built in Denver, but he has many similar complaints to us. But he also loves the vehicle and puts up with its problems, just like us. He also told us about his “scariest ever drive” which was down to Telegraph Creek on the Stikine River.
We retraced our steps past the waterfalls and the Bear Glacier and the hanging glaciers, only this time in perfect weather. Then we headed north along the Cassiar Highway, a continuous view of mountains, lake, rivers, and forest, nothing spectacular, but interesting country. The scenery was changing though as we went further north. The cedars were gone and the remaining trees, spruce, alder, and aspen were smaller and more straggly. The highway was mainly paved but there were many places where the paving had broken up and had been replaced by gravel.
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Cassiar Highway (Edziza, Morchuea, Stikine, Telegraph Creek, Tahlton, Dease Lake, Jade City) |
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We’d intended getting as far as Dease Lake, the biggest place on the highway, but we saw a sign for a forestry campground first, and dived in there. This was at Morchuea Lake, a big beautiful calm lake with a reflected backdrop of the snow covered Edziza Mountains.
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Mount Edziza (1.31) |
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There was only one other party there, and we had the prime campsite with a wonderful view over the lake. We also probably had the best bugs, an army of mosquitoes and the biggest horseflies I’ve ever seen.