Stiffy & Alex enjoying a Martini!
Nikkers & Rohan posing for a photo!!
Mixing up some Martini's - YUMMY!!
Stiffy, Barbie & Rohan - chowing down on some late night tight!!
Nicole, Karen, Kathy and Baz chilling on the couch!!
Looking North from the Burrard St bridge at Grouse Mountain. Recent storms have bought a lot of wind and rain to Vancouver which means snow at higher levels.
Late in the day we see the sun peak through for a rare moment. We have had many storms of late whipped up in the North Pacific and pound the BC Coast and Vancouver with more that 100km hour winds and over 4 inchs of rain on 4 seperate days in 10. 
The lady bug and the tacky tourist out on the town!!
Ahh a little snuggle!!
Looking tough Michelle...what's Aaron doing with that nipple??
A plethora of costumes
Apples - are you dressed up?
Craig and Steph
Steph and I at the Beagle
"On a hippie trail thats full of Zombies". Not really, but the Anniversary Glacier is in between the two peaks that you see in front.
Mt Matier on the left and Mt Joffre on the right with the glacier in between. Our camp spot is on top the hump down from Matier`s right shoulder.
Looking at the North face of Joffre in what appears to be a forrested clearing. It is actually a clearing created by a 1/100 year avalanche. If you look closely you can see the tops of the young trees on an angle away from the mountain.
After 5 hours we reach the moraines where we look South up the glacier. Matier on the left and Joffre just out off view on the right. The rocks on the Col (a sholder between two mountains) at the top centre, is where we hiked and turned arround.
Craig and the thousand mile mountain stare with Mt Joffre in the background. No trees and the talus slope indicates thats we are near camp and at the end of our 6 hour approach.
Home Sweet Home! for the next 3 days anyway. Nikkers is out of the wind in the kitchen making some soup. The temperature drops quickly when the sun is gone and with the camp set up we have nothing to do but admire the view.
Nikkers early on the 2nd morning enjoying the only blue sky we saw that day. The clouds fill the valley below which gave us terrible, wet and cold conditions all day.
Laurie the first on the left, has pretended to fall into a crevasse. Paul is standing watching Craig build and anchor to take Laurie`s weight. Rohan, Kathy and Nicole G with Nikkers bracing to hold Laurie.
Trudging up the glacier which is hard with 7 different people. From Craig you see Rohan, Nikkers, Nicole G, Kathy, Laurie and Paul to ensure we dont fall......
......into one of these!
We made it to the top arround 5pm. Enough time for a drink, a snack and one quick photo be fore we head back down getting into camp on dark to finish off a bottle of Scotch. It really does warm the cockles.
Cerise Creek looking South towards Mt Joffre.
Cruising the streets
With one of New York's finest 
Jackie, Me and Rhonda in Times Square
On the trail not far into our 6hr hike to the lake. You can see the trail just to the left of Nikkers never more than 2 boots wide. Hiking through i kept thinking that at any moment an Ewok would jump out and spear me.
The majority of the way we hike parrallel with the drainage from the lake. There was waterfall after waterfall. From here we are approx half way up, by my guess the trees at the top of the photo would the altitude of the lake.
Almost there! With the blue sky above(including no canopy and sun light) and the last of the winter snow still lingering tells us that we are nearly there.
We made it!!!
After 10kms and a gain of 1200m in elevation we arrived at our accomodation for the next two nights.
The other side of the hut. Looking West out the window towards the lake.
Happy Canada Day!
Fishing of the the half sunken whalf for Rainbow Trout that habitat the lake with the last of the sun hitting the peak in the background.....without luck.
Sunday and the lake to ourselves. One of the most amazing places i have ever been and there was only 11 people there all weekend. Not including the 4 people that flew in by float plane for several hours.
After familarising ourselves with the lake we found a nice bathing/swimming/fishing rock where we spent most of the day. As we left we snaped this photo of Ali soaking up few gamas.
The Nicola River 20km west of Merrit, 3hrs drive East of Vancouver. Looking down stream towards an approaching thunder storm. This was our "put in" for our canoes. Water is traveling here about 70 cubic metres per second.
The same morning looking towards camp, East. The fly had been removed from my tent to dry out moments before we noticed the approaching storm coming up the valley from the west.
Looking south across the river to the approaching storm.
A hike on Sunday took us above our camp site and the river to give us a better perspective of the valley. At the bottom of a rock wall 30m below the top of a hill approximately the size Mt Coolum with no direct path to the top.
The view from the same spot less 180 degrees. The road to the right and the river to the left winding west towards Spencers Bridge, BC. Our exit was some 10km down stream through several Native Bands. I lost count of the Bald Eagles that I saw along the river, probably close to 12. Also sighted were Salmon, Deer and a Bear.
A photo of myself coming down the hill. My first Coyote den, notice the pile of dirt in front. Stopping short of looking in head first it was hollowed out and surprising large inside. Bedded with grass and straw I could quite easily lay inside and be comfortable.
Nikkers on belay!
