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Ten Day Back Country Extravaganza 10 DAY BACK COUNTRY EXTRAVAGANZA!!! Departs on: September 16th Come and explore the back country with us! This specially designed tour will take you on an adventure through the rugged beauty of the Spruce Lake Park, to experience the feeling of the "Big Sky" country in Big Creek Park and the White Waters of Taseko Country. This will be your ultimate pack horse tour experience with the best of the best! Not only will you be lead by our best guide, fed by our best cook who will compile scrumtious campfire food including grilled steaks, roast turkey and sizzling sockeye salmon but you will be surrounded in BC's most spectacular country as unseen by most. This tour will spend time in the Spruce Lake Park, Big Creek Provincial Park and Upper Taseko River Area. It is for advanced level riders only and will consist of mostly spike camping in pristine protected wilderness areas. Day 1: After a hearty country breakfast, guests will leave the main ranch in vehicles headed for the horses which will be waiting for their arrival at our lower Relay Base Camp. Here we will fit each client to their horse and pack our gear upon our eager pack horses. After crossing Relay Creek we will begin climbing the hillside which crosses us over to the Tyaughton Creek Valley. This valley is a mix of pine grass and fir forest with grass hills full of bunch grass. You will experience high mountain views. We will end the day below Fortress Ridge at our Coldwell Camp. Approx. Distance 10km, elevation gain of 1800feet Day 2: After breaking camp we will mount up and head through Castle Pass before dropping down into Big Paradise. We will set up camp at the top end of the valley. The day ride is mostly above tree line with spectacular scenary and many wildlife viewing opportunities. Aprox. Distance 8km, elevation gain 1000ft. Day 3: Today we will begin a relatively long climb up the mountain side heading for Little Paradise and Hail Pass. Once through the pass we work our way across to the very top end of Little Paradise and ride the ridge looking down at the amazing views of Tyaughton Creek Valley and Manson Creek. You will then drop down into the main valley of Little Paradise where we will set up camp for the night. Approx. Distance 8km Day 4: After another good climb out of the valley up to Little Graveyard Pass which leads us down into the valley of Little Graveyard. Here you will witness beautiful wide open country with amazing views. We will make our way down into Graveyard Valley. Coming out not far from the famous gravesites which this valley was named after. Finally after dropping down to Big Creek we will set up camp along the base of the Dil Dil Plateau. Approx. Distance 12km Day 5: We will not break camp today but spend it on a day trip out of camp. We will travel up onto the Dil Dil Plateau. Approx. Distance 12km Day 6: After another hearty campfire breakfast we break camp and head for Iron Pass via Grant Creek. Once through the pass we drop down into the Battlement. Most of this day is spent in wide open country with spectacular Big Sky views. Following Battlement Creek we make our way down the valley ending up at our Horse Heaven Camp. Approx. Distance 15km, elevation gain 1500feet Day 7: Break Camp and head down through the historical Taylor Windfall Mine and down along the Taseko River. We break off the Taseko and head up Denain Creek. Our camp is set above Denain Creek. Approx. Distance 8km Day 8: Three days to go and two vast areas have now been covered. Today we will break camp and head up to Warner Pass and then back into the Spruce Lake Park which leads us down to Warner Lake. The steep, narrow, rocky trail will decend down to Trigger Lake were our cozy log cabin awaits us. We have completed all our spike camping. Approx. Distance 12km Day 9: We will move from our Trigger Lake Base Camp to our Spruce Lake Base Camp. Before arriving at the famous Spruce Lake you will enjoy a meandering ride along the turquoise beauty of Hummingbird Lake. A hot shower awaits you at our Spruce Lake Camp. The fish are jumping in the lake and the boats are ready for your use. Day 10: The last leg of our journey finds us descending along the twisty trails passing forest, meadows and torrential streams. We use established trails to reduce the environmental impact of our journey, although we may have the odd detour around areas of fallen deadwood. We ride along the raging torrent of Gun Creek before crosssing the first of 2 major bridges. A stiff climb up the far bank, then a 4km stretch through lodge pole pines before dropping down to the creek once more. We ride through a forest of fir and aspen for 5km before arriving at Jewel Bridge and enjoying a brief rest before completing the last few kilometres of our journey. This is a long day home. This itinerary has room for minor changes based on the weather conditions and feed at the camp locations. The route will be followed but spike camps may vary accordingly. |