When I left you, we had arrived at our hotel in Prince George, waiting to meet up with our guide, Michael, the next morning.
After an amazing breakfast at our neighboring restaurant, we loaded our duffels into Michael’s truck and headed out.
The first stop was to his house to re-supply. While the guys loaded food and drinks, I took photos of the Snowshoe Hares hopping around the yard…..
Can you see both of them?
We had a four hour trip to the camp. It wasn’t that far mileage wise but much of the trip was through a logging area and on dirt roads that were quite slimy from the rain.
Because the road was owned by the logging company, there was an etiquette to be followed. We saw this sign…..
….and Michael explained what it meant.
We were headed for a barge that would carry us across a large lake and the name of the road we were on was “Augier”. Because we were heading away from the sawmill, we were on the “UP” side of the road.
For the next 75 kilometers, Michael had to use a radio and call in our position. There were certain kilometer markers that required a call. The call went like this…..
AUGIER (name of road)….. UP (we were headed away from the sawmill)…..57 (kilometer marker we were passing)….. WHITE PICKUP (description of vehicle).
The purpose of this was so everyone on the road would know when a logging truck was coming toward them so that they could get out of the way. Logging trucks ALWAYS have the right of way and need the entire width of road. There were pull-offs along the road and, if a log truck was between you and the next kilometer marker, you had to pull off and give the log truck right-of-way.
The logging operations were closed that day so we didn’t meet any trucks.
We arrived at the barge which could hold two log trucks and 4 other vehicles…..
It was “pushed” by a tug attached to one side….
We quickly arrived at the other side…..
….and continued our journey, stopping to take some photos of this female Moose wandering along the road…..
We also saw two black bears.
Then Michael made a left turn and we were in camp….
….complete with a TeePee, cabin, dining tent, kitchen and two other storage units. We followed Michael into our cabin…..
It is a comfortable room, and one of the boys in camp lit our stove…..
….which turns the room into an oven!!!
There is a generator that provides electricity during the day, but all of the heating is done by wood…..
It is quite comforting to see the smoke rising from all of the buildings….
Now let me be honest here. I was not expecting the camp to be quite this primitive but it grew on me as the time went on!!
At least there was electricity so we had a charging station…..
….and they were connected to Starlink internet and it was screaming fast!!
This was our clean-up area, located in the vestibule of the cabin….
….and THIS was our toilet…..
You turned the “NO” sign around if you were in the toilet, so we named it the “NO and GO”!!
My first thought was exactly HOW I was going to make it 11 days without a shower, but we were told that there was a “bucket” shower that they could heat water for if we wanted. But honestly, since we weren’t sweating, it didn’t prove to be an issue, and we spent a couple of nights in a hotel mid trip so that helped too!!
In the next post, I will introduce to everyone, but let me say that the first night’s meal was fabulous…..
The two meats were Moose and Mountain Goat……both DELICIOUS!!!
It felt good to crawl into our sleeping bags at the end of the day….
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Michael and I love to travel and see new parts of the world and then I love to take those memories and turn them into quilts!!! I hope that you enjoy traveling along with us!!
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