Green Apple Adventures

Active Holiday
In Black Creek
Packages:

1. Black Creek

· Cabins: For the budget conscious, there are two cabins with cook stoves, an outside hydrant for water supply (pure spring water), outhouse (toilet), sauna, and use of canoes. Firewood is supplied.

· Homestead: Original old Canadian log-house, newly renovated. Kitchen, living-room with wood-heater, 3 bedrooms, bathroom with tub, shower, toilet, sink, a pantry, refrigerator, freezer, washing machine. Includes pillows, bed-sheets, towels, use of canoe, sauna and firewood. Bring food and sleeping bag.

  Main House: Breakfast, lunch and supper, double bed, whirlpool bath, showers, sauna, TV/VCR and use of canoes.

· Guided day tours into the mountains and horseback-riding or canoeing on the river and surrounding lakes can be arranged.

2. Guided Boat-tours on Quesnel Lake:

   Quesnel Lake is the deepest fjord-lake in the world. Guest will be taken into very remote areas with ancient Cedar-forests. You may see mountain goats on the steep cliffs above the lake, while cruising along. You stay in a cabin or in a tent at the end of the lake. Bring your own backpack, sleeping bag, thermo-rest and raingear.

Combination package:
   First day: You will be picked up in Williams Lake by car. Two hour trip to Black Creek Lodge. Welcome lunch. Walk to close-by Horsefly river. Relax for the rest of the day. Supper.
   Second day: Guided hiking tour to Black Creek gold-mine (5 hours).
   Third day: Early Breakfast. Two hour drive to Quesnel Lake by pickup truck (max. 4 person). By boat to the end of the East arm (2-3 hours). Overnight in cabin or tent.
   Fourth day: One day hike to historic Hobson Lake in Wells Gray Park through old growth forest. Some of the giant cedars are over thousand years old. Wildlife-viewing. Return to Quesnel Lake in the evening.
   Fifth day: Return to Black Creek Lodge.
   Sixth day: Day of rest or go for a swim in crystal clear river. Opportunity for  fishing or walking the area.
   Seventh day: guided canoe trip along the Horsefly river. You will see an abundance of spawning salmon from the middle of August into September.
   Eighth day: trip to historic Barkerville, the old gold-mining town (4 hour drive). Arrival at hotel in Williams Lake in the evening.
   Ninth day: departure from Williams Lake by train or plane.

Notice: Instead of the trip to Barkerville you can visit Farwell Canyon, where the natives of the area catch their winter supply of salmon. You can watch how they catch, process and smoke the fish in their traditional way.

Eco-tourism.
In a time, where stress, fragmentation, pollution and reduction of the quality of our living environment take an ever heavier toll on all, we have to figure out where to find places to restore our body and mind.
To do this and if you want to avoid the centers of commercial tourism, you will have to look for remote areas, where the air is clean and the nature is unspoiled.
Black Creek Lodge offers you such a place with completely for eco-tourism designed facilities. Eco-tourism connects healthy body work and delicious meals, physical activity followed by relaxation, visual delights with meditation, inside comfort with nature, passion with reflection.
Eco-tourism and accommodation: from the luxury of the Lodge to self-sustained living in the Homestead or one of the cabins, from kayaking and camping to an enjoyable Jacuzzi bath in Black Creek - it is your choice.
Eco-tourism includes canoeing on Horsefly River, hiking in a beautiful mountain landscape, kayaking in one of the close by lakes, horseback-riding, gold-panning in Barkerville or trekking in the northern tundra.
Eco-tourism includes fishing for trout in the river, wildlife watching or a day with the native fishermen in Farwell Canyon and there is so much more...
We wish you health and good travelling.

3. Guided sea-kayak tours on BC's West Coast:

   This is a once-in-a-life-time adventure. In the months of July, August and early September, you will see untouched wilderness along the inlets and fjords of the mid-west coast, called the Great Bear Rainforest. This trip is exclusive (two people) and good physical condition is necessary.

   You will be driven by VW Camper-Van through the vast expanse of the Chilcotin Plateau and the Coast Mountains to the village of Bella Coola on Burke Channel. The regular ferry service (BC Ferry's Discovery Coast) will drop you off in Shearwater, close to the native community of Bella Bella. Along the way there will be a stop in Ocean Falls, now a ghost town, which was shut down in the seventies, when the pulp mill went out of business. From Shearwater you will paddle to a small island nearby and set camp.

   The next two days kayaking skills will be honed in a well protected inlet before taking the northbound ferry to Klemtu, a very remote native community. From here you will either take off by kayak or get shuttled by fishing boat into the fjords and inlets of the Princess Royal Island. This is the home of the rare Keremode or Spirit Bear, a white (not albino) version of the black bear, found only here. Camp will be set on a little (bear proof) island in the Mussle Inlet and paddle from there through an incredibly beautiful seascape, with waterfalls thundering into the inlet beside us, to the Mussle River. In August this river is full of salmon, attracting grizzly and black bears.

   Five days will be spent in the area, before being shuttled by boat back to Klemtu. The next ferry will bring you back to Bella Coola and the return to Black Creek. Bring your backpack, sleeping bag, thermo-rest and raingear, also your own wet or dry suit, if you have one.

4. Trekking the Mackenzie Barrens, NWT:

   There is a garden of Eden in the North, just a four days drive from Black Creek! By VW Camper-Van you will driven up the Alaskan Highway to Watson Lake. From here the Dempster Highway to Ross River and after crossing the river by ferry, the Canol Road is followed in the Yukon and ends in the North-West Territories, where the Van is left in a government camp. During this journey we cross the Macmillan Pass is crossed.

   A six hour hike brings you into the Mackenzie Barrens, a high plateau (2000 meters above sea level). The tundra there is scattered with ponds and lakes, and standing on top of one of the permafrost hills offers you breathtaking views of the tundra. The tundra vegetation is quite unique at this latitude; normally you would find this type of vegetation much further north in the Arctic. You will see hundreds of caribou, and occasionally grizzly bears and wolves. Golden eagles and Gyrfalcons can be seen, and geese and ducks provide constant movement to the landscape. Also the Mackenzie Mountains, add yet more beauty.

   You will camp in a tent or use some of the abandoned pump station crew-quarters. These were built during the Pacific War, when the American Army put an oil pipeline from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River to Whitehorse in the Yukon, to supply their war-machinery for the anticipated arrival of the Japanese Army.

   You will walk on a mostly intact road, crossing shallow streams and enjoy the northern wilderness. Snow could fall even in the middle of August, but the days are still warm. The native vegetation starts to change color early, to glowing iridescent reds and yellows. You will hike for six days, for a total trip length of 14-15 days. Bring your backpack, sleeping bag, thermo-rest and raingear.

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