Susi Travels: Wells Gray Provincial Park

One of the most known and most amazing Canadian attractions is it's nature. Canada still has wide areas without buildings and sometimes it happens that you find yourself on a hiking trail without any signs and you don't know if you're lost or not.
On Saturday, we went to Wells Gray Provincial Park to do some hiking. The park is the 4th-biggest national park in British Columbia and is located next to Clearwater, a small town about 1.5 hours from Kamloops. As public transportation is not as well developed here as in Europe, we decided to rent some cars, which isn't that easy as you have to be 25 to rent a car here. After some organizing however, we found enough drivers to rent cars for 26 people and so we drove off to Clearwater on Saturday morning. At the visitors center at the entrance of the park we got some maps and then decided to go on top of Trophy Mountain first and afterwards have a look at the waterfall. We took the road to the start of the hiking trail, which meant about 15 kilometers on a very rocky, steep street up the mountain. Anyways, Canadian cars seem to have no problems with conditions like this and we made it safely up to the mountain. Then the hike began. First it was pretty steep and I started to regret the crazy idea of going hiking. But as soon as we left the trees behind us and arrived on a meadow on top of the mountain I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the nature. Standing on top of a mountain with nothing but nature aorund you is a feeling you can't even describe. After a short break next to a beautiful lake we made our way back to the parking lot. We drove back to the main road and a bit further into the park to Helmcken Falls (the 4th highest waterfalls in Canada). Then we had dinner at a real traditional diner and finally went home. We were all really exhausted after spending all day outside and hiking for 4 hours. But it was a great excursion and even though we didn't see any bears or moose (which was actually the plan for the day). =)