Chilcotin Guest Ranch Wilderness Experience & Horse Pack Trips

• Wilderness all-inclusive vacation packages & ranch stays with delicious and hearty meals
• Experienced & friendly guides for young, novice & advanced riders, and non-riders
• Cayuse horses (no trail riding!), hut-to-hut multiday hikes, snowmobiling, fishing, predator-stalking
• Outdoor Guide School; shuttle from Vancouver or Whistler & return included

This ranch in the Chilcotin Mountains offers guests a variety of adventures: stays at the ranch for a traditional guest ranch experience, overnight pack trips, day and overnight hiking trips, fishing trips, grizzly study and observation and day long or overnight bike trips. Guides are available for target practice, bareback lessons, gold panning, horse logging  demonstrations and horseshoe throwing competitions. Get involved in shoeing a horse, tying the diamond on the pack, or throwing a lariat. You may also want to tour the turn-of-the-century mining town, visit a mining or a chain saw museum, drive to the foot of a glacier or explore old pioneer cabins. For those that wish to spend some time in an overnight alpine camp, but don't come with enough riding experience to head into the mountains right away, the Ranch Stay followed by a Pack Trip is a popular combination.

A huge selection of trips is offered - too much to list! Please call us for details!

Ranch stays are suited to those who do not wish to overnight in an alpine camp. The Ranch is spacious, complete with two story fireplace, sun room, large central dining room, large outdoor deck facing the rugged Coast mountains, and queen beds with feather duvets. The atmosphere is similar to that of a large country home.

Camp Stays are suited to beginner, intermediate and advanced campers who wish to overnight in an alpine camp. Our Alpine Camps vary between fully equipped permanent base camps and seasonal camps. The permanent camps include log cabins and/or tent cabins. Tent cabins are 10 x 12 "walk about" structures with raised floors. Some of the permanent camps are more developed, with gravity-fed showers and solar lighting and heaters in the tent cabins.

Hike like true explorers: You and your guide will access the alpine by foot, carrying only a day pack. The packhorse carries your personal gear, and the alpine camp is set up and stocked for your adventure. Delicious and hearty meals from fresh ingredients are prepared daily. Hikers based out of the Ranch have daily options that include a mix of Ranch trails or hikes into the alpine with your guide. Camp based hikers can choose between Level I, II or III.

Fish: Whether you're a trout fishing enthusiast with a custom rod, or a beginning angler with an urge to hook a magnificent rainbow trout, the remote mountain lakes, rivers, ponds and streams within the 5,000 square km angling territory will fulfill your dreams.
Camp based fishing is for those who wish to overnight in an alpine camp. Transportation between the Ranch and camp is by float plane or horseback. All-inclusive adventures include accommodation, meals, fly-fishing lessons, licensed guide and transportation during the trip (vehicle during Ranch based, float plane or horse during Camp based).

Bike: Chilcotin Holidays pioneered "guided packhorse-supported mountain bike tours" in the south Chilcotin Mountains. These multi-day single-track wilderness bike tours are guided, and they are done in prime biking areas where there is no conflict with horses and hikers. Chilcotin Holidays do not do unguided extreme biking. All-inclusive adventures include accommodation, meals, guide(s) and packhorse(s).
Bike trips provide accommodation at the Ranch or an alpine camp. Riders should bring their own bikes. Access in and out of camp is a 6-8 hour ride with elevation changes of up to 1,000 m over uneven terrain. Daily itineraries vary according to the level of the trip and group interests.

Ranch based grizzly viewing: Viewing is done by a combination of vehicle and foot, returning nightly to the Ranch. You leave early in the morning to catch the Grizzlies feeding on the first fresh shoots and grasses of the spring. This is the time when the bears are reestablishing territories, and it is the start of the breeding season. Collecting hair samples, documenting sightings and tracks, and studying bear habitat and a winter den are all part of the experience.

Pack Horse grizzly viewing: Viewing is done from Mountain Cayuse horses. Riders access the back country like explorers, with personal gear packed on horses. The first and the last nights of the adventure are spent in our Ranch while the rest of the nights are spent in an alpine camp(s). Trails traveled by Grizzly bears through the mountains are marked with rub trees or territory markers. You collect the hair from these trees, and GPS their locations for subsequent mapping and analyses. All-inclusive adventures include accommodation, meals, guide(s), and transportation during your adventure.

A scheduled service passenger van, available Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Saturday will bring you to the ranch.

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* Please Note: All prices quoted are per person and do not include GST and applicable taxes.

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More customized & unique wilderness experiences in the 'Serengeti' of Canada:

• Big Game Studies (single species): 7 days
• Big Game Safari (multiple species): 7 days
• Predator Game Safari (single Specie): 4 days
• Chilcotin Mountain Bio-Diversity and Wildflowers (May - mid September, Levels I, II, III): 7 days
• Mt. Top Snow-mobiling (January/February, Low Season): 4 and 7 days
• Bush Plane Wilderness Fly-in Fishing (June - October inclusive): 4 and 7 days
• Indian Summer Hike/Horse Pack Trip (September, Levels I, II, III): 7 days
  
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