Granisle

On Saturday Ryan and I arrived home from our trip to Granisle. We stayed with our friends Diane and Eric. Ryan and I both used to work with Diane at Army and Navy and have kept in touch since we both quit. Her and Eric bought their house up in Granisle about 6 years ago and Diane is retiring from work next year and they both plan to move up there and live there permanently. 

We had such a blast. The drive up there was quite long. 13 hours to be exact. But the weather was beautiful the entire time except for about 5 minutes when we drove through a rain storm in Prince George. I had never been up that way either so getting to see all the towns and scenery for the first time was super cool. We live in a beautiful province.
As we got closer we kept seeing more and more moose, you weren't able to get too close cause once the car got within 50 feet it would run back into the trees. But it was still pretty awesome to see. 
The town of Granisle was so tiny and no stores or gas stations. Just houses. Which I know a lot of people can't seem to understand why someone would want to live like that, but I loved it. 
We relaxed the first night we were there because we were so worn out from the long drive up. Especially Ryan, since he did all the driving. hehe :P

The first morning we were there, Diane and Eric took us to the first fishing spot which they called the outflow. It ended up being my favourite out of all of them and the spot where I caught my biggest trout yet.
Then that night after dinner we went down to a spot called Millionaires Pond. We didn't catch as many, but this was the spot where Diane caught one of the biggest trout I had ever seen. It was a super cool moment. 
Another cool thing, since Granisle is pretty far up North, it didn't get dark till about 11:00pm at night.
The next day we drove out a spot called the Big Rock. This was apparently Diane's favourite spot. It was pretty good but had a super gnarly trail to get down. I found myself having to slide on my butt at certain times because it was so steep and I got nervous of falling off the side. We spent most of the afternoon there and then headed back for dinner. Diane cooked us trout that we had caught from the previous day. I. ATE. SO. MUCH.  It was so delicious.

After dinner we drove down to the lake. It was so beautiful. This was one of the slowest spots we had been to the whole time but it was still very fun. We had a campfire and watched the sun go down.

The next morning it was time to head home. We stopped at Millionaires Pond on our way before heading out on the road.
The drive home was all sun and when we got back into the Fraser Canyon we stopped at the Thompson River to fish for a bit and stretch our legs. Only caught one little fish but it was still super nice. 
 
We both decided that 2 full days was definitely not enough. So next year we plan to make sure we have a whole week up there.