{"id":1974,"date":"2010-07-30T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2010-07-30T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T20:36:01","slug":"day-15-long-day-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"Day 15: Long day running…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was up first so I boiled the water. Eventually everyone crawled out of their sleep sacks and we noshed on breakfast. Carmen declared herself satisfied with her new bag. Some hot water to wash up and we took down the camp. <\/p>\n

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We hit the road towards Smithers with little more plan than eastward ho. A few miles outside of Smithers we saw two or three planes circling around. Eventually we noticed smoke off to the west and we realized they were water bombers. Unfortunately the fire was hidden by some trees so we couldn’t see the last part of their attack runs. <\/p>\n

A few miles further along we saw a fish hatchery sign so I slammed on the brakes and yanked the wheel to the right. A bubbly young girl came out and and dragged us from dumbfoundedly gazing at a near empty artificial stream. <\/p>\n

Inside the shack were huge troughs of 16-18 thousand coho fingerlings. The girl’s job was feeding these hungry buggers for hours on end. Sort of like cute mini piranha. They raise them for a year inside then clip the fin of each and everyone by hand. Then they move them outside for another year before opening the sluice. The salmon leave when they are ready. <\/p>\n

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The nearby creek had a few running chinook but we didn’t see any. In another month the previously released coho would be coming back and apparently they are a sight to see. <\/p>\n

We stopped in Smithers for gas groceries and lunch we stopped at BPs for the worlds longest lunch. For the second time on this trip we got a n00b waitress. She tried hard but really, when you are in a hurry, it’s hard to take. At the Info centre we decided to make it a long day and camp on the other side of Prince George. <\/p>\n

The drive is relatively nice. <\/p>\n

We stopped again in Vanderhof for a break and a beer topup. <\/p>\n

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A quick stop in Prince George for gas and we arrived at Perden Lake around 6:30. Camp was setup pretty quick and Leslie whipped up some blueberry pancakes for dinner. Turns out the fire ban started today so C’s s’mores were called on account of dry. <\/p>\n

A lovely late evening walk down to watch the trout jump rounded off the evening and we tucked in for the night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was up first so I boiled the water. Eventually everyone crawled out of their sleep sacks and we noshed on breakfast. Carmen declared herself satisfied with her new bag. Some hot water to wash up and we took down the camp. We hit the road towards Smithers with little more plan than eastward ho. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}