British Columbia Whitehorse to Haida Gwaii - Alaska and Points North: Tips and Tales from the Road - page 244

The next morning we took a much smaller ferry south to Moresby Island for $37 return.
Enroute the rain started in; just part of the Queen Charlottes experience.
ArrivingatAllifordBay,weheadedright.Thisisanactiveloggingroadandwedidruninto
a few huge trucks but there was no problem, we just squeezed right over to the side. There
is not a lot of signage, just enough to keep us on track and the occasional regular-sized
vehicle (not a logging truck thundering by) stops to say hello and offers advice. People are
friendly. The road is gravel and this varies from quite good to horrendous washboard with
major potholes. There is still quite a bit of shale here too which is very hard on tires, al-
though we managed without a flat.
The scenery is ethereal, mystical, the stuff of legends and mythology. Moss drips off the
limbs of the ancients. The spongy forest floor is littered with deadfall, lush with foliage and
ferns. Dozens of shy Sitka deer peer out from behind the bushes. We never saw one, but the
Queen Charlotte Islands is also home to the world's largest black bears.