About two weeks ago, a friend suggested that Kathrin and I should paddle the Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit. Since the weather forecast was brilliant for this period of time, we decided to go for it. Late in the afternoon on August 23rd, 2009, we left Vancouver and headed North. The night we stayed at a beach side Motel in Williams Lake. The next day, we arrived in Bowron Lakes Provincial Park, got our instructions, a canoe and a cart and left for the wilderness.
Nice scenery
Actually, it is not that wild because of all the other paddlers. But at least it is as quite as it can get. So we paddled and portaged out canoe for 7 gorgeous days (and 116 painful kilometers). The first two days we had some clouds, but then it cleared up and was bright and sunny every day. It got so hot on the water, that Kathrin and I both got issues with the heat. We had to take long brakes during the hot hours of the day. All the paddling every day was very meditating and often the water was so calm that the surrounding scenery got mirrored by the water surface.
Meditating
All on all it was a gorgeous trip and we even saw a mouse. And water bombers that where extinguishing a fire in the valley next to us. On the way back we visited Bakerville, an ancient Gold mining town.
Bakerville
It would be a ghost town, but during the summer actors populate the streets and create the illusions of times long passed. It is a fun place to visit and time passes by fast in the town. More pictures.
All in all a beautiful trip into the wilderness of BC.
Where the heck is this Bowron Lakes Provincial Park?
Where is this BLPP Google Earth file
How does the circuit look like on a map?
Bowronlakes Google Earth file