"ess is | a. © hat ‘stretch. of road: ‘in "British -
Columbia so. awesome that some. people close their
eyes” and pray when they. get there and so miss it’

altogether. - / eh

ghar’ gashed ‘out. of : a sheer mountainside. . The
Salmon: Glacier, blinding white and dazzling, even

without sun, snakes. calong on the other side. :

Above the’ Salmon Glacier
the: road leads on: to.:more
glaciers. You feel you -are at
the top. of the. world, in a
- forest: of | whitened, icy
-tree-stumps;,. ‘or. out'‘of this
world on the pockmarked,
crater-filled, surface of the
“moon. Tributary... giaciers
flowgo o meet the main glacier
and, “behind,. the - jagged
peaks. of. the. Coast Moun-
tains rear to 7; 000 feet.

In summer, your vehicle.
creeps around the outside of |
tunnels. and seems to miss by.
mere inches a_ dropoff. to
oblivion. In winter, vehicles
drive through the tunnels.
Thick ice and heavy snow-
falls, perhaps 1,000 inches a
year, make negotiating the
outside of the tunnels. too.
dangerous.

Gun sheds along ‘the road
contain explosives which the.
road crews use to ‘control
avalanches.

‘LONGEST TUNNEL

This is the - road: to ‘the
Granduc copper mine. In-.
credibly, the men that drive
to work. ‘each day from -
- Stewart scarcely look out the ©
window. Their only interest.
is in commuting to® the
immense aluminum concen-
trator at the Tide . Lake.
summit, a massive building, |
which shelves. 45 degrees
into the mountain and whose’
roof covers twice the. area. of |
a football field... a

The men pour. off the bus - |

and take a train into the™
mountain for their next shift.”

It is no surprise to learn

that it was not till 1970 that
the surface
Granduc were completed:

From the mill a tunnel leads”
‘11. miles underground be-.—

neath three glaciers and
through - three mountain
ranges to where the copper is.
actually mined. It is the.

-- longest tunnel in the, world, a

driven from one end. re

An,: expetienced | “mining |
engineer once said: ‘‘At.
Granduc, man has triumphed
over.;some of the: séverest

obstacles nature has: ever”:

placed i in the path of: mineral

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. Six _.copper | concentrate
trucks make 24. round trips

daily between the mine: ‘and:

the marine terminal. at.
Stewart. on the Portland
Canal. Men are transported
to and from work three times
a day by company bus or
crummy. So it is dangerous,
as well as illegal, for a
‘private vehicle to drive all
the way to the mine site

unless permission is gained -

and cars travel in convoy.
However, the . company pro-
vides passes on one extra bus
a day for the general public.

Althoug h the ~— traveller
needs a pass to ride the bus

for the last 15 miles of the

journey | to this. incredible
mine, the first 15 miles out of
Stewart are > open to all.

TOURISTS “HYDERIZED”

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“From Stewart’ -- the
modern town at the head of a_

long salt water fiord; which
forms the boundary between
Canada’ and the:
_ States -- you drive past the
marine terminal. that ‘ships
‘the ‘copper concentrates - to
Japan, and. ‘within two miles

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you are in. another country,
but just. for a moment.

This is Hyder, a village of :

75. U.S. residents who
support a little-used customs
house, a road maintenance

crew, grocery store, curio

shops, a hotel and three
- open 24 hours a
day, ‘seven days a week.
Tourists become ‘‘Hyder-

ized’’ by drinking a free shot
of straight green alcohol at.
‘the Glacier Inn.

- Many of Hyder’ Ss original

buildings were erected on
stilts over the tidal flats. or

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the Portland Canal. You can.

-still see the rotting ‘pilings,

stone fireplaces | and old—
sheds that jut up through the
mud of the. delta.

From H yder, the road.
climbs along the gravel bed |
of the Salmon River formed
from. the melt waters of ‘the
Salmon Glacier’s . terminal |

moraine, past the ramshack-._
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up to the site of the once |
famous Premier gold mine

where the public part of the
fascinating road ends.

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