Our Alaska bridge to nowhere...

The last area in Alaska that we visited was the area of Hyder and Stewart, British Columbia.
This turned out to be a beautiful area. We enjoyed walks near the glaciers and on sub alpine meadows.

While walking in this area, we came across a creek. It was not quite shallow. I had my waterproof boots, but Vicky did not have hers. She was walking that day actually in her water shoes (??) but the weather and water were way too cold to get your feet wet.




So, I was about to bail out when Vicky said that we could build a little bridge made out of rocks and logs to cross the creek. I was about to shut down the impromptu project, as I was sure we could find some other route, but she was so enthusiastic about the project that I went along with it.

We started to haul rocks and wood to the edge of the creek. Building a dry path over the shallow side of the creek was cake, but as soon as we hit the knee deep section with a strong current, things got sketchy. We could not carry enough of a big rock to serve as a foundation, and the wood that we were laying down was being carried down by the current.

About 45 min. into the endeavor we started to get tired and we decided that what we had was "good enough." I went first. I made it though the first half, but the second was very rickety. I practically bypassed the whole section by jumping and splashing my feet on the other side.

Here I am giving a way too premature thumbs up to our Alaska Bridge to Nowhere.

I knew Vicky was not going to be able to jump that far, so I knew it was "funny video" time. I wiped my iPhone out to take a video. Yeah, sure enough, she got wet, not much, but enough to question why we spent 45 min. herniating our aging spinal columns.

Semi wet and tired we continued bush whacking our way to the edge of the glacier, just to find out that if we had backed away from the creek about a hundred yards, we would have seen the nice wide trail with a nice -real- bridge over the same creek. Oh! well....the memories!