I'd known that this building was somewhere up near Hyder before I even left home. I'd read a ride report from last years' HyderSeek that talked about it. Sure enough, we found it. The gate was high enough that we just ducked underneath it and kept riding. It's only about 100 meters off the highway, on a knoll that sticks up in the middle of the valley. According to the other report about this building, it is a weather radar.

It's quite possible that this narrow track was the original road into Stewart. It was gravel and mud. The center hump was mud and grass, so it meant you had to ride in a wheel track. The brush was so thick that the branches and brush would "thwack" against the bikes, causing us to drag limbs, leaves, etc.

The unknown animal track is where we stopped. There was a short section of thick mud, then a large avalanche/snowslide/mudslide blocking our progress. We'd already gone through a large section of standing water (Ted almost dropped his bike as Ken was trying to take a picture!), but we weren't going to attempt crossing the snow.

Ted saw this on the way in to Stewart. It was a rock outcropping to the north side of the road- certainly too tall to get to the top, but it looked like fun for hiking around. We ended up following a moose trail up to the base of the rock- the moose trail was about a meter wide with rub marks, chopped branches, and such. We'd started out bushwhacking a trail, but the moose trail was much easier to follow. On the way out, we realized it led to the road, not too far from where we parked our bikes.

Ken is smart (where "smart" means "afraid of heights"), but Ted was adventurous enough to follow a goat trail/ledge out to the rocky point. The transit along the ledge was exciting, but unfortunately the view wasn't much better than at the road down below.

Ted marked this entry in the GPS on his way in, but Ken noticed that there was an ice bridge down at the base. Notice you can follow this waterfall all the way down the mountain- that's a long way!