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T H E L O G P I L E L O D G EAddress: Logpile Lodge, 3105 McCabe Rd., Dining:European style fine dining, made from scratch with quality ingredients. Open to the public by reservation only a couple evenings a week, fully licensed and non smoking. Workshops/Conference:Meeting room up to 16 people, Dining room up to 50 people, Flipchart, overhead projector, TV/Video available on request, Wireless internet connection available. Accommodation:7 Guest rooms, each with its private bathroom, shower/tub and large balcony. The rooms on the lower level have massive logwalls, the rooms on the upper level cathedral ceilings. 2 rooms with 2 double beds, 4 rooms with 1 queensize bed, Honeymoon suite with kingsize bed. All of the Lodge is nonsmoking, ashtrays for smoking outside available. Rates:Cdn. $ 90.-- to 170.--, country style breakfast included, GST and Hotel tax extra. Season: Off Season from October 1 to May 31, High Season from June 1 to September 31, with 2-3 weeks closed in between for training and winterizing. Credit cards:
Action and Recreation:Tourism Smithers (www.tourismsmithers.com) is an excellent all-purpose website for information on recreational opporitunities in Smithers and the surrounding area. Hiking: right from our doorstep (Malkow Lookout), trails through the fields. A bit farther away: 10 min. drive: Babine Mountain Provincial Park, 20 min. drive: Hudson Bay Mountain Glacier and Twin Falls (spectacular in early summer), 40 min. drive: Telkwa Range, .... endless possibilities! For guided trips with a certified mountain guide contact Christoph at www.bearmountaineering.bc.ca. Biking: guided or on your own on the Perimeter trail, the Cronin Pass, along the Bulkley River or up the Kitseguecla Valley. Contact Peter (www.mcbike.bc.ca) he will give you the details. Riding: Mountain View Trail Riding (5 min. from the Lodge) offers anything from 1 hr trail rides to overnight rides. Western style. (www.mvtrailriding.com). Angelica will give you the precise information. Spatsizi Wilderness Tours also offers a variety of riding tours. www.spatsizi.com Rafting: Fabulous trips down the river, some for the family, some for the more adventurous at heart. Kevin will lead you safely through the day: www.maincurrent.com A trip in the 10 person voyageur canoe with Northern Sun Tours, check with Roger to see what he has on the go: www.northernsun.bc.ca Aquabatic Sports can teach you from A - Z everything there is in kayaking www.aquatbatics.com Flying: Enjoy an incredible flight in a floatplane over
the glacier, Wendel will tell you the other secrets: www.alpinelakesair.com Fishing: Ray will take you flyfishing on the Morice River and the Bulkley, get in contact with him: raysflyfishing@hotmail.com. Keith Douglas knows some wonderful corners that he will take you to. Contact him at: keithdouglas@telus.net Golfing: there are 2 golfcourses in Smithers, one in Houston, 2 in Terrace, one in Prince Rupert Skiing: great downhill skiing from the end of November (snow per-mitting) till middle of April, fabulous Cross Country skitrails (www.bvnordic.ca)at the foot of the Hudson Bay Mountain. Location:~ 360 km west of Prince George, ~ 370 km east of Prince Rupert, 10 km northeast of Smithers, elevation ~ 620m Transportation:Scheduled flights (3 per day) between Vancouver International Airport and Smithers (Air Canada, www.aircanada.com Hawkair, www.hawkair.com) If your flight up to Smithers is connecting to an international flight, ticket should be no more than cdn$ 200.-- return!!) Ferry from Vancouver Island to Prince Rupert = Inside Passage, leaving Port Hardy at 8 am, arriving in Prince Rupert at 10.30 pm (www.bcferries.bc.ca) Ferry from Alaska to Prince Rupert (www.akferry.com), Alaska Marine Highway tel. (907) 465 3946. Train from Prince Rupert (www.viarail.ca) leaves every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday in the morning, ride takes about 7 hrs along the fabulous Skeena River. Train from Prince George (www.vialrail.ca) leaves every Monday, Thursday and Saturday at 7.45 am. Self drive from Vancouver, driving time ~ 15 hrs Local car rental: Dollar-Rent-a-Car & Thrifty Car Rental, Smithers Airport, Nancy Giddings 847 3332 or email: NancyGiddings@telus.net National Car Rental, Smithers Airport (250) 847 2216 In order to be mobile we suggest for air and train travellers to rent a car. For additional details, please visit the Directions & Transportation page S M I T H E R SMedical:
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Artists and talented people:Mark Perry, a Smithereen all the way!, singer and songwriter, responsible for alot of great dances in the Glenwood Community Hall (www.markperry.bc.ca) Karen Sobey, painter, her large 4’ x 8’ paintings (there are also smaller ones) capture the light and colour in an incredible way . Mairead Sikkes, painter, oil on canvas, watercolour, her paintings are stories from around here, listen to the creek run over the rocks, smell the flowers in the field (www.bulkley.net/~nico/gallery.html) . Brenda Mallory, painter, beautiful wildlife watercolours, northern scenes, many of her paintings can be seen in local businesses, and the Art Gallery. Rolf Kopfle, worldclass wildlife photographer, immigrated from Switzerland in 1996. Many of his pictures can be seen all over Smithers and in the Logpile Lodge. Wendy Perry, local photographer who knows her way around the country, be that on horseback or crosscountry skies, catching the details of this beautiful valley. Her work is hanging here at the Logpile as well! Myron Kozak: He was dedicated to photography and gave his time generously to people and to projects that reflected his love and concern for the land. An accident took his life in 1995. (www.kozak.bc.ca) Dennis Clark & Wes Giesbrecht did the log work for the Logpile Lodge. They design and build log homes and remote cabins. They constructed the Joe L'Orsa Cabin in beautiful Babine Mountains Provincial Park. Their website is at www.driftwoodcreekloghomes.com Rolf Kopfle: (www.rkpress.com) Wendy Perry: (www.photographiciptions.com) - only to list a few!! Home
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