Fraser River Slide

Sometime in late June a big landslide went into the Fraser River upstream of the Big Bar ferry. The area is so remote and the river seldom traveled so the exact date is unknown. Interesting to compare the views with what we paddled on our Chilko Lake to Lillooet river trip in 2007. The rapid that was created by the slide would have been a bit of a surprise!

The rapid was big enough to stop the upstream progress of the salmon runs. Various measures of mitigation were employed by the BC government. Although I didn't visit the grizzlies at Chilko Lake in September my photo-friends reported that the bears found enough salmon for their winter preparations.