Power blackout while moving up north.... :-(

From beautiful Whistler we drove to Gold Bridge to check-in at Tyax Wilderness Lodge (www.tyax.com). This is a lovely place in the untouched nature of British Columbia. 

As we drove through the area, we saw a lot of amazing landscapes.

We felt like driving on a Paris-Dakar-Rallye on this bumpy road (70 km) towards the Tyax Lodge ;-)

Tyax Wilderness Resort & Spa

Tyax-Air, the own airline of the Lodge offers flights to different spots. There are several possibilities to get back to Tyax Lodge. Neither you go by bike, hike back or you ski back (for sure only in winter;-).

The view from our room to the Tyaughton Lake.

On the next day after our arrival, we did a real mountain-biking-tour. Once we've climbed about an hour, we reached this amazing place in the Chilcotin Mountains. Our guide Tyrone brought us (although some evidences of bears) safetly through the forest with its very narrow paths with lot of stones and roots.

Tyrone (our guide) was surprised how well we did on the bike. He mentioned that former guests would have died on this particular trip we made. ;-)))

With the pedalo on the Tyaughton Lake.

After we took a day off and chilled at the frontbeach of the Lodge, we headed forward to Clearwater and were surprised, how extensive this village is. It took us about 37 km from Downtown Clearwater to reach our "container", called Helmcken Falls Lodge. We didn't expect much, but this was quite a place. Not to mention that during the night a huge power blackout let the whole area (approx. 150'000 people) down. No power means no water in B.C. ...

The main building of the Helmcken Falls Lodge

 

We stayed in the front row of these buildings. Can you imagine to be at night in such a room without any light and water? (there were also no streetlights available). We were happy as soon as the sun came up in the morning that we could leave, even without any shower taken. Thankfully we filled up enough gas because all the gas-stations in the near area were also affected by the power blackout.

Even tough this special situation, we still could find some gorgeous places in the National Park called Wells Gray:  

 

Eat a bite (a delicately blueberry mufin) in front of the Helmcken Falls.

 

Also impressive are the Dawson Falls.