Trip Across Canada
William’s Lake gold panning takes place at Caribou Chilicotin Jetboat Adventures/Wild River Adventures. Gold panning actually turned out to be quite fun. It’s really easy to do too. Once you get a suitable deposit, you scoop some of it into a pan, where you then place it into water. The materials in the deposit went through the pan due to their lower gravity, while the heavier ones, mainly the gold, remain in the pan so you can examine and collect it. We got to keep some gold dust that we found as a souvenir. I might really have to think of making this a hobby! After William’s Lake, we were off to Grouse Mountain. It was now around lunch time, and even though we were really tired we knew ...
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We had bacon and eggs, because we felt like keeping it simple, because we had a wild day ahead of us! We were going zip lining today at the Grouse Mountain Zip Lining! The zip lines went at speeds as fast as 50 km an hour. We got to see the mountain at an insane view. It was definitely a heart pounding experience, with me being so afraid of heights. When we were done, I was glad I did it, but I don’t see myself doing it ever again. Because we were almost done in BC, we were going to have to start making our way to the Yukon, which consisted of a lot more driving. We drove for four and a half hours till we got to Prince George, where we stopped for lunch again at Subway, and got our usual sub and after we stopped for gas at the Birchwood Turbo Gas Bar. By now it was almost 4pm and our next destination was Whitehorse, a nice 21 hour drive. We drove till Dawson Creek, which was a long drive, but the closest town we found between the two. We found the Best Western Dawson Creek ...
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called the Raven Hotel. We still hadn’t caught up on all our sleep yet, so we were pretty much ready for bed. We’re just sitting here waiting for our room service that we ordered, and then I will be going to bed.
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Our hotel came with continental breakfast, where I just felt like having a bowl of cereal and a banana. We wanted to go look at Mount Logan, the highest place in Canada with an elevation higher then 5000m, but it was not possible to get there by road, so we had to travel by helicopter. The helicopter ride was much more exciting than driving. It went much faster too. It was a breathtaking view of the mountains. The pilot told us that because of the active ...
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