Taylor-Lick

Sept 11- In honour of Pete's birthday and his absence in Canada- I went on a big ride- well the weather was gorgeous and I had no guiding to do.

Climbing up Taylor with a group we shuttled I soon lost them and met the group ahead at the Taylor cabin. then they ahd a broken rear hanger issue so I left them and headed along the High trail to Eldorado cabin where the Collective did some fliming once.

Then up the hike a bike to join the lick creek trail singletrack that swoops down like a black diamond singletrack trail for 45 mins or so- wooo weee! Roots and seriously exposed switchbacks- cool!

I had a great ride, such awesome weather and trails.

Camp Dinner

Daryl's enthusiasm does not abate! He went fishing and I went biking and we met at Friburg camground to cook up a camp meal and enjoy the sunset! Fun to be out for an al fresco meal.

I headed back to my cabin and lit the first fire I've had since Sky Camp, then I completely chilled out for the night- so mellow!

Bingo Night

Daryl decided we needed staff entertainment so he worked very hard to acquire some dubious prizes from around the lodge and make us all write up bingo cards.

He took his role as bingo caller very seriously and we all got pretty serious about our cards too- there was incredible focus during each game.

I wasn't winning anything until almost the last game I won some wine and a float plane model! Esther sat next to me and won loads including the $90 pot at the end- cash she needs for her road trip!

All in all a very entertaining night!

Lillooet

Hungover - we laid by the Seton lake most of the day making the most of what could be our last few days of sunshine! Then Pascal drove me back to Tyax.

Road Trip Lillooet

I've been on resort for 6 weeks now and I have not yet ahd cabin fever but today Nat drove me out in her new car to see the sites of Lillooet, BC's little nugget at mile zero of the Gold trail.

The beast (her noisy car- no muffler) was stickered up before I could board her and we drove the Road 40 along Carpenter lake with tales of friemds that have died driving it!

Town was small- I blinked and missed the mall! Still it has 2 pubs and we did a pub crawl and the crawled out of the pub much much worst for wear! I met quite a few locals and played pool, beating the boys and getting thrashed by the girls!

It was good to be out of Tyax for a night and weird to see a town with more than 1 shop again!

ATV

Trying out all the lodge activities this week - this time the 1 hour ATV tour. A bit tame but fun to try. I'm sure I'll get a chance to take on of these out and rip one day!

Horse Riding

Finally got me on a horse ride with Brennan but no Cowboy hat!

I rode Chum along the narrow trails and into the Lake where the horse ahead of me promptly knelt down adn rolled over tossing the guest who was riding him off into the cold lake in her jeans!

I managed to take photos for her husband as we giggled enough to almost fall off our horses.

We cantered back along the trails and I nearly bounced out of that western saddle- my thighs aren't used to gripping such a wide saddle!

Hope I can still ride my bike tomorrow!