Vivalavida will now wipe six days of almost continuous rain. Indeed, it is the rain season near the Pacific coast, I didn’t really realize it until now…
 
 
1. A pond in the myst…
 

 
 
Despite the weather, I went for a detour to Stewart to try to spot some of the many glaciers in the region.
 
 
2. The “Bear Glacier”, along the Stewart HWY.
 

 
 
3. The mining road VivaLaVida borrowed in the rain to climb to other glaciers. Funny, we were in Alaska again for a few tens of miles without any customs as it is a dead end! 😀
 

 
 
4. Oups, the road ends here for VLV! I continue riding the mountain bike…
 

 
 
5. I’m lucky, a brief lull allows me to see the Bereton Glacier in the fog, it’s around 16:30.
 

 
 
6. A little later, I even have some sunlight that makes wet rock shining.
 

 
 
7. The road ends at this abandoned mine…
 

 
 
Back to VLV, I turned back to hope to see the Salmon Glacier, a huge glacier in T before night falls.
 
 
8. VLV seems very small in front of the giant!
 

 
 
9. Panoramic to attempt to show you the northern branch. The thrust is so strong that ice is pushed several hundred yards over the mountain (bottom right).
 

 
 
10. A second panoramic to show the immensity of the ice flow; more than 40 miles long and about 6 miles wide for its main part!
 

 
 
I slept on site, hoping for a better light in the morning but I woke up in a dense fog. I then went back down to Stewart…
 
 
11. … here in the middle distance, behind the harbor.
 

 
 
12. Seb, if there’s too much snow this winter in Arzier, I found what you need !! With that, you won’t never remain blocked! 😉 This is a Russian car which I have not been able to understand the brand.
 

 
 
Still in the rain, I continued South with a new detour to the Nisga’a lava fields, theater of the last volcanic eruption in Canada, about 300 years ago. 2,000 Indians were killed, several villages have been swallowed up. The melt is more than 20 miles long and deflected a big river from several miles.
 
 
13. The only bright spot of the day on VivaLaVida’s way and still in the rain.
 

 
 
14. Rainy inlet the next day…
 

 
 
15. Marsesh where lichen took possession of the dead trees. Nice atmosphere, isn’t it? We could see one or two trolls showing up? 😉
 

 
 
16. Arrival at the lava beds, sometimes smooth as in the background, sometimes chaotic. They reach more than 45 feet thick in places.
 

 
 
17. Crack…
 

 
 
18. Few trees were able to grow in this young and barren rock.
 

 
 
19. A small cascade which drains a lake, also created by the lava flow.
 

 
 
20. Small rainbow as VLV continues heading South.
 

 
 
Continuation of the descent of British Columbia in the next update.