Meziadin Lake side trip

This is looking out of our picture window as we are camped here at Meziadin Lake up on the Cassiar Highway. We drove down to Stewart, BC today, a short side road trip to the coast. It's just 1/2 mile along a road and you are into Alaska, but only to the town of Hyder (pop. 100). VERY interesting. There is even a border crossing back into BC, but none into the US. We saw many glaciers, a bear, and even an eagle (flying back into Alaska while we waited at the border for the RCMP to stamp our passport). This is an interesting road, constructed during WWII to enable supplies to get to Watson Lake, Yukon Terr., a supply point in the landing-strip-to-landing-strip way that was used to ferry fighter planes to the USSR. Once the planes got to Alaska, then Russian pilots came over and took over flying them across the Bering Strait. Women in the Army Air Corps were the transfer pilots and it was a dangerous risky job with miles of trackless wilderness between each tiny landing strip. It's STILL miles of trackless wilderness, believe me! We took a picnic lunch and ate it in Stewart, sharing our picnic spot with a dozen Bohemian waxwing... a lovely bird I now can add to my Life List (of birds seen).