Bowron Lakes Canoe Circuit is widely toted as one of the best canoe circuits in the entire world, and we got the chance to experience its beauty: Mosquitos sucking us dry, windstorms halting our progress, and a thick yellow goo we have to wade through.
Does the beautiful scenery, comradery and near death experiences make up for it? Find out for yourself as we canoe this 116km lake.
#camping #canoe #backpacking
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From the BC Provincial Parks Website:
Bowron Lake Park has a strong history of First Nations and European use and settlement. Much of this use has been intertwined with the presence of plentiful wildlife and rich fisheries in the park. The physical evidence of the park’s heritage is distributed throughout. Some evidence, like the old trappers’ cabins, is in plain sight while some evidence lies buried. In other cases, the history of the area exists only in the memories and stories of First Nation elders or handed down to second and third generation landowners and local historians.
While the word “wilderness” is often used to describe Bowron Lake Park, its mountains, lakes and rivers have been used for food, shelter and sustenance, economic development and recreation long before society decided to protect it as a provincial park. The marks and evidence of its former residents and users can be found in the old cabins, trails, axe blazes, crumbling chimneys, rotting mileposts, the occasional projectile point and the long since removed rail portages.
Intro: (0:00)
Day 1 Portage: (0:37)
Day 1 Canoeing: (1:41)
Declaration of War: (2:47)
Day 2 Miso Soup: (3:27)
Day 2 Winds: (5:48)
Campsite 19: (6:24)
Day 3 Issac Lake: (7:19)
Day 3 Fishing: (8:30)
Oar Carvings: (9:07)
Day 4 Escaping Death at The Chute: (10:50)
Day 4 Cariboo River: (13:13)
Day 5 Cariboo Falls: (14:58)
Day 5 Skoi Lake: (15:32)
Britney VS Tuna Can: (16:28)
Day 6 Beatboxing Squirel: (17:09)
Day 6 Spectacle Lakes: (17:35)
Day 7 Heading Home (18:50)
