#Strohn Lake

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Glacier Highway, BC (No. 6)

Bear Glacier is a destination for travellers heading north on Highway 37. Just a short side trip on Highway 37A towards Stewart, the Bear Glacier descends towards Strohn Lake, down Bear River Pass.

Ice once filled all of the pass, but in the 1940s, the glacier began to retreat and Strohn Lake formed in the exposed basin. In 1967, Bear Glacier melted away from the valley wall and Strohn Lake was no longer dammed. Since then the glacier has continued its retreat.

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Yesterday was a day of 2 halves: the morning was vulcanological and was in the #vulkaneifel #geopark while the afternoon was palaeontological in the famous Hunsrück Slate, a Devonian #lagerstätte with exception soft tissue preservation. The first stop was Winsborn Scoria cone, which formed 80,000 years ago and now contains a crater lake. Then we visited Pulvermaar, at 11,000 years old this is the youngest volcano in Germany and forms a perfect circular crater occupied by a lake. After this we moved to the village of Strohn. Here we saw the famous lava bomb. The huge 120 ton ball of lava actually formed by beinging repeatedly fired away from the eruptive vent, each time rolling back down the inside of the scoria cone receiving a new coating of lava. Additionally in Strohn we visited a section cut into the side of a scoria cone, and went to the Vulcan Cafe and Museum where the erupting fissure of the scoria cone has been recovered from a quarry and is on display. We then relocated to Bundenbach where we were given a personalised underground tour in the Herrenberg slate mine, and afterwards we went fossil hunting in a disused slate quarry. The Hunsrück Slate fossils are some of the most important fossils in the world, with soft body parts beautifully preserved as pyrite. The organisms were living on a shallow sea bed and would periodically be catastrophically buried by anoxic sediments that had a low organic content but a high Fe content. Once buried sulphate reducing anaerobic bacteria broke down the organic material producing sulfide. This then converted to iron monosulfide and aerobic bacteria oxidized it to pyrite. The mudstone was later converted to slate in the Variscan orogeny and the reason why the fossils can be recovered is that in the Bundenbach area, tight folding means the cleavage and bedding planes are parallel. Fossils recovered include echinoderms, fish and rare marrellomorphs and anomalocarids which are also founded in the 100 ma older Burgess Shale of Canada. (at Bundenbach) https://www.instagram.com/p/B33pxahp6tK/?igshid=1hald3nv0sjxg

#vulkaneifel #geopark #lagerstätte

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Salmon Glacier

What you will experience:

The 5th biggest glacier in the world

Bears fishing for salmon, literally less than 25 metres away from you

The southern end of America’s largest national forest (Tongass National Forest)

If you’re 21+, becoming ‘Hyderized,’  by doing a shot of 151 proof Everclear at the Hyder Inn

Before you go:

Call Stewart Chamber of Commerce 1-(250)-636-9224 to verify if roads are open and the best time for bear viewing (usually June/July, depending on the salmon run)

How to get there

After a 4 hour drive from Terrace, BC, you will arrive at the US/Canada border. This is the only American land crossing where you don’t need to appear for inspection, but you will need proper identification for re-entering Canada.

Continue driving, you will pass the Hyder Inn and the bear viewing boardwalk on your left (stop now or on the way back). The paved road turns into a dirt road. There will be a sign indicating you’ve re-entered BC and mile markers along the way. It is a 25 minute drive to the view point.

Use the GPS coordinates from our map to plan your trip and you will arrive here with no problem.

Along the way:

Visit Strohn Lake and the Stewart BC Boardwalk

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Strohn Lake at Bear Glacier Provincial Park

a small, beautiful glacier lake on the way to Salmon Glacier