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Outside the Grandview Inn in Hyder , Alaska , are left to right : Alan , Ralph , Bert , Amy ( the owner ), Joel and Rod .
Kootenay Mountains in Radium Springs , British Columbia . Black bears loitered alongside the winding road to Lake Louise the next day , and the wilderness intensified the length of the glacier-crazy Icefields Parkway to Jasper , Alberta . The ensuing 230 miles of highway west of Jasper presented no services , no traffic , no houses , no humans — only dense forests and lonely mountains . Several thunderstorms , four black bear families and a lone wolf cub later we arrived in Prince George , British Columbia , with low-fuel lights .
Hyder , Alaska , was all I expected an Iron Butt hangout to be . Situated west of the Cassiar Highway a few yards from the Canadian border town of Stewart , British Columbia , at the end of a fjord that is used by the logging industry , Hyder is shielded by the Kshwan