Pemberton Day
Last Minute Adventure Gates Lake Thu Aug 5th Just as I was about to sit down with a glass of wine and write up today's rather thin activities, a text arrived from Nick. Do I want to go canoeing? An evening's paddle has to be much better for you than sitting down drinking wine, staring at a computer screen. It wasn't in today's plan. As part of our search for the right location we planned to head up to Pemberton, about 25 minutes north of Whistler. We'd stayed just north of there in a log cabin on a 14 acre former smallholding, next to Gates Lake some years ago. We'd liked the town but hadn't been in house hunting mode back then. Our first stop was the 60m high Nairn Falls, on Green River. A 1.5k walk along a steep wooded valley side. About a third of the way along a narrow path went down to a small beach area, away from the roaring torrent of Green River. At the far end of the dirt track a short steep climb up an area of rocks ...