First Canoe Trip 2012
Usually people say April showers bring May flowers but this year we were able to find some nice sunny days in April to head out on a 2 day 1 night canoe trip up to Nanton and Horseshoe Lakes. There were 9 students (a Brazilian – Ana, 4 Mexicans – Sonia, Tomas, JC and David, 2 Japanese – Natsuka and Kazuko, a Spaniard – Julene and Jerry our Korean comedian) and of course Crosby and Cali joined the adventure as well! We set out from Nanton Lake Saturday for a beautiful 2 hour paddle and although we faced a pretty good headwind all 5 canoes made it over to Horseshoe Lake and up to the south end to the campsite. Surrounded by beautiful snow covered mountain peaks with not another soul in site, it was a pretty cool trip! The campsite is a favorite with several picnic tables and a large fire pit and protection from the elements provided by some large fir trees. Saturday night we enjoyed a steak barbecue and had roasted marshmallows and cookies next to a roaring fire. Sunday we paddled back in the afternoon. It was amazing beautiful because the water was like glass. The cool thing is that we were all back in town by 5pm after having had a great weekend enjoying the beautiful outdoors of BC. Powell River is truly an amazing place to live and visit as we have so much to do and it is all so close by!
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