In this episode, I head to Lillooet Lake for 2 days of epic canoeing and vanlifing. I set up shop at a rec side on the In-Shuck-Ch Foest service road, and spent 2 days canoeing lilooet Lake. Day one, I head north towards Mount Currie, and paddle 17 kilometers total, with a nice stop at a sandy beach as well. The wind picked up just before I got back, but I made it fine, and because I was living in luxury with my 1998 GMC Safari van, the conditions at camp were irrelevant. I made mac and cheese with smokies for dinner, I didn’t really nail it, but it was OK. More importantly I headed out canoeing in the opposite direction, south. I tried to get to a bridge way down on Little Lillooet Lake, but I ultimately didn’t make it. What I did do was give an interesting lesson on the history of this area, which was home to the “Douglas Road”, a land and water trade route that would of connected port Pemberton with Harrison Lake, which ultimately flows into the Fraser River. Which was a critical route in the BC gold rush days and before. It gets the name of “Douglas” because the first ever governor of the colony of British Columbia put it into action. That’s right, the trade route that went through here actually predates Canada itself. While that’s good history, the real action started when I canoed down a river that I couldn’t canoe back up. I thought I was screwed, and I was, until the first boat I had seen in 2 days appeared. It turns out that it was a guy named Kolby, who runs a fishing guide company named Kolby’s Fishing Adventures(@KolbysFishingAdventures on Instagram), and we was able to bring me and my canoe up river. It worked out really well, because I would of been absolutely screwed if he didn’t show up. Not all heroes wear capes!
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11 Comments
Where's the dehydrated donut? man, that I fear doing things like that in the wild. that'd be a hell of a walk back for someone who went too far.
Just found your channel and subbed today, great videos man. Real camping with Steve vibs, love it!
Great videos Sarge (look what happened when i didn't say "stay safe"..🙂
Nice one, great scenery, great historical commentary as usual, good thing Colby came along, maybe you can employ your drone for pre trip scouting as needed
Always found my days spent at Lillooet Lake to be fantastic! Have not had the pleasure of canoeing or camping around it though. All were day trip up from the Whistler area. Oh man, the timing of that ride was epic!! What a great bunch!!
I am pumped for your sturgeon adventure!
Always nice to 'celebrate' on the water 🛶🌞
Wild man, how lucky to catch a quick ride like that!
That first lake was amazing, the second one seemed like more of a deathtrap LOL.
Oh,snaps! Man, that was a doozie! Great video and airtime from the sky.
You need to do a Canadian lake tier list for canoeing.
I feel your pain buddy and also understand when plan B comes together in an epic way. This spring I watched a video of a little old lady kayaking around Kings Island on the Connecticut River. I grabbed my canoe and I was about halfway down the river when I said to myself, I don't remember rapids in her video. When I rounded Kings Island every stroke I took upstream I ended up two strokes back. My plan b was to drag my canoe up a 40 ft embankment, carry it across a parking lot and put it in an old canal that I was not sure if it was clear or not. The canal trip turned out to be very nice and putting the canoe back into the river above where I parked was easy. Turn out to be one of the most fun days I've had in years.