The Bowron Lakes Circuit is a 70 mile loop, contains 11 lakes, 3 rivers and 8 portages totaling 6 miles. The park has 57 campsites along the route and we found dry wood at all our stops. It rained, hailed, and we had strong winds on 24 mile long Isaac Lake. We took advantage of the sun when it presented itself and dried out our tents. Good tent designs, a dining area sun/rain fly, and fleece clothing kept us quite comfortable the entire trip. Temperatures dropped to freezing several nights when it was clear. We saw no bears or moose, but several loons, kingfishers and other waterfowl.

On the pathway of our first portage, we stopped to peel off layers of clothing. We had started with full raingear, which proved too warm. The Park only allows 60 lbs to be carried in each kayak during the portages, so we had about 25 lbs each additional to carry in our packs. The cart tires chew up the paths if they are overloaded. In these first few portages, we gained about 50 meters in elevation, so the rest of the circuit was more downhill. It was hard to tell on some of them as the paths went up quite high on the hilsides. That's Larry on the left, Stan on the right. Two really great guys.

Our first camp was located on Indianpoint Lake. This view is looking west of Indianpoint Mountain at 7pm in the evening. It had rained quite heavily earlier.

The evening sun breaking through at 7:30 pm glowed off Indianpoint mountain to the right with Mount Peever in the background. The temperature got down to 32 F during the night, with a mostly clear sky.

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