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 TRIP
DETAILS
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Trip Highlights
| Day 1: |
| Day 0: Your trip begins the evening before we start rafting. Upon arrival at the Smithers airport your hotel can arrange a shuttle to bring you to the hotel. Later in the evening we will have a pre-trip meeting where you will meet the guides and all the other travelers. Waivers will be signed and any lingering paperwork will be completed. You will receive your special dry bags for packing your personal belongings. We will also have a briefing on gear, clothing and the river itself.
The next morning we meet after breakfast in the hotel lobby to prepare for our departure. There's time to do any last-minute shopping, grab a latté and board the van for our transfer to Rainbow Alley and the headwaters of the Babine River. Here we meet the rest of the guides, enjoy a deli-style lunch at the river's edge and take time for a quick visit to the salmon-gate and census project (quite a photo-op as thousands of salmon fight to get to the lake above). Before we launch there will be a brief river orientation and safety talk and by early afternoon, we'll be on the river.. A couple hours later we'll arrive at our first camp where we'll enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as we set camp and settle in. A sumptuous dinner, the first of many, follows before we collect around the campfire under a star-filled sky.
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| Day 2: |
| We typically begin each day with coffee and tea, followed by a hot breakfast that may feature fluffy Blueberry Pancakes, Breakfast Burritos or perhaps West Coast Eggs Benny. Fresh fruit salad, granola and yoghurt are always available... in short, you will not go hungry! Once camp has been broken and the boats are packed we'll head downstream, usually between 9:30 and 10am. |
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| Day 3: |
| Our journey continues on Day Three through deep canyons passing several class III and IV rapids. The backdrop is thick Northern forest, with the mountains and glaciers of the Sicintine Range to the north |
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| Day 4: |
| By Day Four the pace of the river picks up and we'll travel a sustained stretch of class III and IV rapids highlighted by the exciting 'Pinball Alley'. Tonight's camp is deep in the Babine Canyon with the adjacent waterfall providing a refreshing shower for the hardy. |
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| Day 5: |
| Day Five begins with a visit to the famous 'Grizzly Drop' where it is quite common to see Grizzly Bears fishing! Later in the day there is an opportunity to hike to the abandoned Native village of Kisgegas and the remnants of the turn-of-the-century Jesuit Mission, now overgrown with wildflowers. After leaving Kisgegas, the river valley opens providing vistas of Mount Thomlinson and the Babine pours its contents into the much larger Skeena River. Our final campsite on the Skeena River provides a perfect setting for our final night in the wilderness together. Our takeout point is at the confluence of the Kispiox and Skeena rivers, next to the functioning native village of Kispiox, where giant totem poles pay silent tribute to generations past. Here we might run into a local who can tell us of the legends behind the carving. Our evening is spent back in the relative luxury of Smithers where after well-deserved hot showers we'll get together for a final dinner. Stories can be practiced and embellished with your new friends before taking them home to unsuspecting family and friends.
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