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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: Other Canoe Camping Locations :: Bowron Lakes in BC

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sirbill

03/18/2008 01:35AM

Anyone else ever paddled the Bowron Lakes loop in British Columbia. It is 116km loop through the Caribou mountains with spectacular scenery and was selected as one of the top 10 canoe trips in the world by Outside magazine. I had some nice lake trout luck on my trip as well.

Check out some pictures onthe BC Parks website.
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/bowrn_lk/photogal/bowron_lk_gal.html

Definitely unusually nice scenery for paddling. I saw some of the strangest canoers in history there though. There was heavy rain shortly before my trip. 3 old women on their first ever canoe trip tried to run some rapids I wouldn't have touched because a portage was too hard for them. Not surprisingly they flipped at the eddy the first turn and I had to help rescue them. The next day 2 boy scouts a short distance ahead of me on a river section had demolished a canoe crashing into a downed tree despite the fact the channel was a couple of 100 feet wide. The next day I came upon upon two women who had capsized trying to avoid a moose in a 5 foot wide slough section and were trying to get their canoe upright. Must have been a full moon.