Growing up across the street from each other, Nick and I had many adventures during the high school years. Last year Nick first approached me with the idea of a trip to Canada and a possible return into paddling for himself. I was stoked on the idea and when it fell into place to make the trip this September I was sold. Nick got into a boat once this summer on the Provo river in Utah before the trip, and before that a 3 year hiatus. Confident in our ability to work as a team, we set a pretty ambitious schedule of class IV-V runs using low water to our advantage. Nick would be using an IK (the duck) so we would use the morning of our second day as a warm up, and it would be pretty much game on from there out.
Day 1
- Drive north and check a couple park and hucks (too low)
- Deal with the class five mank that is Vancouver, BC
- Camp near Whistler
Day 2
- Cheakamus in the morning
- Callaghan in the afternoon
Day 3
-Rogers Creek
- Skookumchuck hotsprings
Day 4
-Drive to Wells Grey, try to get clean
Day 5
- Mahood River
Day 6
- Upper Clearwater
Day 7
- Lower Clearwater
- Drive home
This is obviously a lot to cover, so I will write these in installments of each day. Some quick teaser shots..
Below the triple on Rogers
Driving along Lilloet Lake
Shawn lines up on the Clearwater
Bailey Chute on the Clearwater.
Nick at the lip of the famous Callaghan Falls.
Manifestation camp.
Tune in next week for more BC goodness!
-Jacob