All but 6 of our guests have now been evacuated! Now there isn't much to do but drink red wine and eat all the salmon we have left!

Big flood of 2010!

Helicopter refueling tank on the move with our dumspter!




Road just east of the lodge as far as we can go.










Neighbours farm now under water-all cattle dead but she managed to save her horses and float plane.








Water coming past the second cabin-we moved these people into the lodge

Bears were pushed up from feeding on salmon on the river banks-black bears and grizzlies roaming all over the place.

earlier in the day when the river overflowed the banks and flooded the first cabin

Richard lapointe landed the heli 2 feet from me ! Sometimes the heli's dont shut down when we load guests and luggage so we have to be right there and ready to go. clients are billed by minutes so we have to move quick to get them going.



Beautifull morning in Stuie! It snowed on the mountain yesterday but it was 21 degrees on the deck.




Esqer trail next to the lodge has been closed!

there are bears everywhere now!

Alligator lizard up the tote road

So much has happened but I haven't been able to find the time to update the blog. So here's a bunch of photos and I am going to try and keep on top of things now moving forward!
Lot's of excitement here in Stuie!



Whoa! Looking in the back of people's pickups around here can be suprising. This cougar was killing sheep down on a Firvale farm so the rangers were called in.

Some dollies we caught on the Atnarko. Tonight the boss asked us to make Gravlax tonight so we couldn't come home without any fish.

We thought Carol was cooking in the kitchen but when we drifted by the bear-viewing station at Belarco she was up there with Ranger Wes.


Cub and sow sharing a fish

Bear!!

Whent fishing in some Mackenzie drift boats today and the boss and his friend Y.P. came along in pontoon boats. If you look up stream you can see a bear wandering down-We had to get back in the boats soon after this.

Swede a little to close to a bear! We were in a drift boat right behind him. Boy did he have to back paddle fast about 5 seconds later!

Today Swede wanted to have some fun as a friend who was visiting and he also wanted to check out a new unscouted ridge for future heli hiking so we packed some lunch, bear spray, radios, survival and first aid kits and headed out to the helicopter-man these people are prepared (I carried a backpack but little did they know I had nothing in it but a chocolate bar and my camera).


Looking for a good spot to land.




Swede unloading our back packs at the drop off point-Hold onto your hats!

Checking out the view at the drop off point

Doug coming up a tricky part.

Our fearless leader looking at the map!

Breaking for snacks about half way up.


At the summit!

At the summit calling for our ride on the radio!







Pat, Doug , Pilot Richard, The Swede and Skye at the end of the hike

I told Doug I'd go on a nature walk with him but I wasn't interested in any wildlife poop (the technical term is scat) but these naturalists can't seem to help themselves. This scat- he informed me against my will had some salmon and berries in it-nice

Pink Salmon moving up the Atnarko to spawn. Spent a day with doug on the trail looking for Pika's(small alpine rabbit things)

Crazy fight right on the front lawn of the lodge. A male grizzley chased and killed a cub and the the mother protected it for over 6 hrs so the male wouldn't take it and eat it. we could see another cub down the path but it was being wise and kept hiding in the bushes. The park rangers said they know it happens all the time in the wild but had never seen anything like it before.