Saturday

You’ll open your eyes to warm morning light di‚ using through the white walls of your “safari-style” wall tent; having made it to Bear Paw camp yesterday afternoon, you can replay the day of creek- crossings, hill- climbing and general wonderment as you made your way through Big Creek Park, down through Graveyard Valley and up Elbow Pass to the headwaters of Tyaughton Creek. Here your camp host awaits, with oatmeal and pancakes to fuel you for 27 kilometres and about a thousand metres of elevation gain and loss through Deer Pass to a quintessential Chilcotin view spot, then through technical terrain. Push a rowboat into Spruce Lake and see if you can’t supplement dinner with a fresh trout or two.