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The Bear River Near Stewart, British Columbia, Canada |
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The rushing Bear River starts in the iceberg-filled lake at the snout of the Bear Glacier. It is augmented by dozens of side streams, many tumbling down in thousand-foot waterfalls. Like most rivers fed from glaciers, its channel is broad, shallow, and shifting — a braided pattern. It is staggering to those of us from drier climates that a river can get this big in a watershed less than 20 miles long. But that's what an annual precipitation of as much as 200 inches can do. Next: Chocolate Bar |