Wednesday morning rolled around, and we all decided to call it good at Skook and head to Whistler. After a week at Skook we were all pretty worn out, but completly relaxed in such a beautiful place. If you have never been to Egmont, BC you have got to check it out! Lush forests all around you, an epic wave, sealife, amazing food, and no cell phone service! YES! Skook is definetly a place where you can actually relax and not be bothered by the norms of society. Anywhoo, back to the story....
We began loading the van at 10:00, but Bryan, Todd and I are really ADD and get easily distracted. Somewhere in there, I think we ended up tinting a van window, browsing super cool stuff online, reading a book, and running around.
We began loading the van at 10:00, but Bryan, Todd and I are really ADD and get easily distracted. Somewhere in there, I think we ended up tinting a van window, browsing super cool stuff online, reading a book, and running around.
We ended up rolling out around 3 pm, we made it to the ferry terminal
to catch the 5:30 ferry, thanks to Bryan's superior van-driving skills!
to catch the 5:30 ferry, thanks to Bryan's superior van-driving skills!
An hour later, we were off to Whistler, about an hour and a half north of Vancouver, BC.
On the way there, we saw a lumberjack!
AND... a 40-footer near Quest University!
Scouting the lip (Photo by: Kim Russell)
The falls (Photo by: Kim Russell)
Unfortunately, the falls was too low, and each log we tossed over managed to either break in half, get lost under the river left wall, or end up in the mess of logs just downstream.
After arriving in Squamish after dark, we decided to call it quits and camp out in the Walmart parking lot to save ourselves the trouble of finding a campsite late at night in the middle of bear country. Good idea.
The next morning, we woke up, did some walmart shopping, where we determined the Walmart's in Canada are SOOO much cooler then in the states. They have Passion Flakies and shoes for $5.00! And they weren't just shoes... they were waterproof ked's things for chicks! Yee-haw! (Needless to say, no one got any...BUMMER)
After a breakfast of eggs and english muffins in the parking lot, we went to check out Mamquam Falls, a 70-footer just out of town whose flows are controlled by a local water-bottling company! (go figure)
Mamquam.... the big one (Photo by: Kim Russell)
Once again, it was a tad bit too low, so we shot some sweet pics, and headed up to Whistler just in time to run the Callaghan River nearby.
Bryan and the boys hikin' to the river (Photo by: Kim Russell)
Bryan and the boys hikin' to the river (Photo by: Kim Russell)
(Photo by: Kim Russell)
Unfortunately, I did not take my camera on the Callaghan this day, as I didn't want to deal with a pelicase in my lap at the time, so you'll have to do a little research and find some pics online.
Callaghan Creek is amazing! The water is milky blue-white, and not too cold. The run starts off with a little bit of class II, quickly changing to class IV. The run overall is Class IV boulder gardens and drops with two bigger drops toward the beginning (a 15 ftr with a log on river right, and a clean 25 ftr downstream). Sweet. Def. a creek to check out if you're ever in the area.
Stay Tuned for the next post! Three Rivers in a day: Cheakamus, Callaghan and the Soo!
Hope you're staying cool in the warm weather!
Kim Russell
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