Trip Highlights

The Cariboo Lodge is beautifully situated at about 1100 metres (3,600 feet) in the Canoe Valley, with vast and stirring views of the Cariboos and the dramatic terminus of the grand Canoe Glacier. A vast masterpiece of mountain theatre, the Cariboo Range takes its name from the caribou that roam its slopes. When Sir Alexander McKenzie explored the Arctic in the late 1700s he gave the Mi’-Kmaq word halibu (which soon became caribou) to the deer he found in the high latitudes.

A decade later, traders descending the western slope of the Canadian Rockies into the Canoe River Valley named these grand mountains for the “northern deer” that enliven their slopes. The names of the Cariboos’ highest peaks honour both early explorers like David Thompson and Canadian prime ministers such as Sir Wilfred Laurier. The Premiers, a Cariboos sub-range, is surrounded by one of Western Canada’s largest ice-fields, a near-Antarctic marvel. This noble and immense range, with a thousand or so square kilometers of wilderness terrain, offers more than 100 hikes.

Your choice on how hard or easy YOU want to hike! We can do anything from a gentle, flower-rich hike, ideal for beginners, to a moderate meadowy hike with three fine lakes along the way up to Bunny Buster peak, surrounded by awe-striking views of the Rockies to a sterling outing that works up from the canyon to a series of plateaus lavished with wildflowers and great views of the immense Zilmer Glacier. And we are there all along the way to make sure that this is the vacation of your dreams!

 

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