[Closed] Our float plane adventure... lots of pictures!

Got round to putting the photos from our float plane trip in Canada on Flickr... quite a contrast to what i'm seeing looking out of the window. More of the same here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanpanter/sets/72157625060842024/

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Loading the plane at Tyax Lodge - we lucked out and got upgraded to the super pimp millionaires lodge as the cheapo (all relative, it's a heliskiing lodge...) one was being renovated...

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Cool little beaver plane - apparently it'd sunk twice!

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Early morning over the South Chilcotin mountains - according to Dale the pilot there wasn't likely to be anyone within 20 miles of use in any direction! We'd gone on a dirt track for 3 hours to get to the lodge...

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Coming into land on Warner lake.

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Unloading the plane the first time round - we arrived to thick frost, I should have brought more than a thin windproof!

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Dale taxiing for take off. Suddenly felt quite alone...

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Dale's back again with the others. Starting to warm up a bit now!

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Amazingly clear water. I stuck my hand in it and it felt like ice.

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My favourite photo...

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Off he goes.

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Time for a briefing on bears - basically, if you see one, make sure you're not the slowest. MBUK were out the week before and saw a mother and baby grizzly...

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Time for 30 miles of mint singletrack.....

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...along a mixture of lakes and medows.

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This bit of singletrack was featured in the orginal Collective. We didn't ride it quite as fast!

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Probably the prettiest lunch spot i've ever had.

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Dreaming of the singletrack to come? Or just eaten too much?

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End of the ride, flat out techy singletrack blast...

Hope no one minds the over indulgence of photos! If anyone else fancies it I quite recommend Johnny Smoke of Bush Pilot Biking, and Dale and Claire from Tyax highly enough...