We stayed at the King Edward Hotel in Stewart. It is a hotel and a motel; we were in the hotel section, the pictures show the motel section, which is across the street.

The Sealaska Inn in Hyder is where the festivities took place. Of course, we filled every hotel and motel in Hyder and Stewart, but the actual gathering was at the Sealaska. There were right around 120 bikes at the HyderSeek, and 12 attempts at the 10/49. I think 8 or 9 of those riders were at the HyderSeek.

The pier extended out into the water quite a ways. It had a posted limit of 11,000 pounds, so we figured two bikes wouldn't hurt anything. Good thing we weren't on a Wing or LT, I suppose.

Hyder bills itself as the "friendliest ghost town in Alaska" and have resisted efforts to pave the town. Hence, the border is easy to recognize, since the road immediately turns to gravel. The stone building on the left is the old US Customs house (there is only a Canadian Customs house now, you don't have to stop when going into Hyder). Caroline Stewarts' fudge and gift shop (the Boundary Gallery & Gifts) is the first building in town.

Our introduction to Caroline came when we had Ken's camera set up on the tripod, and we were trying to figure out the self-timer. We would run over to the camera, try a setting, run back to the bikes, pose for about thirty seconds, and (according to Caroline) we were grinning like idiots the whole time. It took about 3 tries before we got the right setting, and we were cracking up about how ridiculous we must've looked. Caroline agreed that we looked pretty silly.

"The Bus" serves very good food, but it comes with four rules: I don't remember them, I suppose I should take a picture of them next year. Basically, "no whining, and your food will show up when we get good and ready". Our meals took about 45 minutes.. and this place is called the Seafood Express! Great food. We'll go back next year.