![]() ![]() A detailed equipment list will be sent to you upon confirmation of your participation. All you need to provide is your personal gear, such as clothing and a sleeping bag. We supply all the group equipment including kitchen, water filters, tents, and bad weather cover. We will supply you with a list of outdoor clothing and articles you will need. If you have special dietary restrictions or preferences, we can handle most requirements. Beverages include herbal and regular tea, coffee, hot chocolate, cider. You can expect meals to be varied, and delicious: burritos, rice, pasta, and vegetable stir-fry for dinner bagels and sandwiches for lunch oatmeal, and granola for breakfast. Food is divided and carried by participants. The food we bring is plentiful, nutritious, and primarily vegetarian (because this keeps better than meat). Bathroom facilities will range from outhouses to wilderness sanitation practices. You are welcome to bring your own tent but you should contact our office to ascertain the suitability of your tent to the environment. Typically, tenting is double occupancy and partners are arranged by gender. At night you will sleep in a top of the line tent. Our guides meet strict national and provincial park standards before they are licensed to guide on our behalf. They are committed to providing our guests with the best in wilderness adventure, while always focusing on safety. Our guides are highly trained and accredited leaders. ![]() We would need to be comfortable that, at either end, the hiker is capable of hiking the Nootka Trail. The youngest can be 13 and the oldest in their 70s. People come by themselves or with family/friends. Each group consists of people of various ages, backgrounds, and abilities. The maximum group size is 10, two of whom are guides. Heavy morning fog is very common, especially in July and August. Rainfall averages 120cm per year summer temperature average is 14 degrees Celsius (57 F). It is very changeable with heavy rainfall possible even in July, August, September and likely in April, May,&June. T he weather is characteristic of a marine temperate climate. We provide a conditioning program to assist hikers to prepare for the physical demands of the Nootka Trail. Participants should prepare by executing an exercise program coupled with some walking or running or cycling. The trip is open to people of all abilities however, it requires physical endurance and psychological stamina. We usually begin hiking at 9am, take breaks, lazy lunches (weather permitting), and look to get into camp around 4-5 in the afternoon. This is a coastal hike with the terrain switching between temperate rain forest (trail with some muddy sections, roots, rocky sections ) and beach (gravel, rock, hard, and loose sand, slippery sections of boulders and shelf.). Regardless of their new village, Yuquot continues to remain their traditional home. The Mowachaht were convinced by the Department of Indian Affairs to relocate to A’haminaquus at the mouth of the Gold River in the late 1960s for administrative, social and economic reasons. The people who claim Nootka Island and who maintain a presence at Yuquot are the Mowachaht (“ the place where the deer come from”). It probably was used by the inhabitants to indicate that Nootka was an island, and not to their name. Although there is some debate over the origin of the term “Nootka”, the best guess is that it comes from “ nootk-sitl” meaning to go around or make a circuit. As was the case when cultures with different languages met, communication was reduced to gestures and drawings, which were often misinterpreted. The area’s inhabitants were first called Nootka by James Cook in 1778. There is evidence to suggest that human presence at Yuquot at Friendly Cove dates back at least 4,000 years. The area around Nootka Island is believed to have been inhabited for thousands of years. ![]()
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