The Lodge
-- Located in The Great Bear Rainforest --
**ST Note** At this time there will not be a channel dedicated to this. This is not where the main play will take place. It is considered to be fully staffed and always booked months in advanced. Even when there is not snow on the ground they always have vacationers, hikers, etc. There is always something to do and people staying. You are welcome to have Kin and the occasional shifter on payroll, but it will not be a main source of play**
Marking the start of your journey is a large log sign atop two impressively large red-wood pillars that reads "Spirit Bear Lodge" just behind and branching off from the pillars to the sides is a large rock wall fencing that vanishes into the rolling snow and seems to never end. In front of it is a gorgeously decorated gate with bears and other wild life upon it that will open as you notice to the right, a keeper who offers a friendly nod and smile from the warmth of the small log cabin like security shack lets you in.
The Lodge is located atop the crest of a mountain with an impeccably well maintained road leading up to it. Surrounded by beautiful lighting and trees that are decorated with icicle lights all along the route, you can see the occasional wolf, fox, or other wild life may be spotted along the way hidden in the tree line and almost seems to be watching you to ensure a safe passage along the way and to the destination itself.
Once at the top you pull into the carport where a valet will take your car, after you have unloaded your belongings, to go and park it in the garage allowing you the ability to head on into the Lodge itself. A large set of wooden double doors, the left with a wolf's head, the right with a bear's head, open forth to a bright and open welcoming entrance.
Staff and carts are on hand to help you with your bags while a smiling face greets you at the desk to handle your check in from prior registration, it is here that there are options for where you will be housed.
- Rooms within the lodge itself
- Personal cabins on the grounds
- Small 'igloos' with glass roofs in order to watch the northern lights
There are a number of various resources available within the lodge itself, and all services are open to each guest that stay there, with only a few places off limits. There are some locked doors, labeled as such for staff only and cleaning, supply closets, kitchen, etc.
Outdoor Offers the following amenities;
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fire pit
- Viewing Deck
- Walking Trails
- Skiing trails
- Slopes
- Lifts
- "Safe zone" for children to play, forts, igloos etc
- Greenhouse (Small)
- Garden
Indoors Offers the following amenities;
- Bar
- Open kitchen like buffet in dining room
- Pool
- Hot tub (In a glass room so you can watch the outside)
- Sauna
- Spa
- Gift Shop
- Sunroom with plants
- Library with computers
- Gym
- Game room (pool, foosball, Wii, etc)
- Theater (Plays a movie every night, with popcorn)
There are 4 levels to the lodge, you enter on the second level, levels 2 and 3 have rooms and there are some lofts and suites available on level 4. Each level has a main sitting area with comfy seats, televisions, plants, fireplaces, etc. It is all decorated with an old rustic feel to it but bears, wolves, and some felines (lynx, bobcat etc) are prominent in the decorations. Antlers found on location are used as well.
The Great Bear Rain forest is nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountain Range on the west coast of British Columbia. It is one of the largest tracts of temperate rain forest left in the world that is home to thousands of species of plants, birds and animals.
In this lush rain forest stand 1,000-year-old cedar trees and 90 metre tall Sitka spruce trees. Rich salmon streams weave through valley bottoms that provide food for magnificent creatures such as orcas, eagles, wolves, black bears, grizzlies, and the rare and mysterious white Kermode (Spirit) bear.
The property is a prime tourist destination for heli-skiing, sport fishing, ocean kayaking, hot spring trips or overnight excursions. Sport fisherman will find world class fishing for the five wild pacific salmon species, halibut, cod, crab or prawns all nearby. The nearby Dean River is renowned as one of the greatest steelhead fisheries in the world.
Attractions along Dean Channel include Eucott Hot Springs, the town of Ocean Falls, former First Nations village site at Kimsquit at the mouth of the Dean River, petroglyphs on the rocks near the mouth of Jump Across Creek and famed Mackenzie Rock the western terminus of Alexander MacKenzie’s explorations.
The Great Bear Rain forest covers 6.4 million hectares along BC’s Pacific Coast - an area almost the size of Ireland. With one quarter of the world’s coastal temperate rain forest, it offers breathtaking scenery and unparalleled recreational opportunities that draw from around the globe.
The Dean River is one of the major rivers of the Kitimat subrange of BC's southern Coast Mountains that begins in the volcanic-shield Ilgachuz Range on the Chilcotin Plateau and winds north around the Rainbow Range to enter Dean Channel at the now-uninhabited, remote community of Kimsquit. It is one of the few rivers to fully penetrate the wall of the Coast Mountains between the Fraser's mouth (near Vancouver) and the mouth of the Skeena River (near Prince Rupert). Kimsquit is a former village of the Nuxalk at the mouth of the Dean River on the northeast side of Dean Channel.
**ST Note** At this time there will not be a channel dedicated to this. This is not where the main play will take place. It is considered to be fully staffed and always booked months in advanced. Even when there is not snow on the ground they always have vacationers, hikers, etc. There is always something to do and people staying. You are welcome to have Kin and the occasional shifter on payroll, but it will not be a main source of play**
Marking the start of your journey is a large log sign atop two impressively large red-wood pillars that reads "Spirit Bear Lodge" just behind and branching off from the pillars to the sides is a large rock wall fencing that vanishes into the rolling snow and seems to never end. In front of it is a gorgeously decorated gate with bears and other wild life upon it that will open as you notice to the right, a keeper who offers a friendly nod and smile from the warmth of the small log cabin like security shack lets you in.
The Lodge is located atop the crest of a mountain with an impeccably well maintained road leading up to it. Surrounded by beautiful lighting and trees that are decorated with icicle lights all along the route, you can see the occasional wolf, fox, or other wild life may be spotted along the way hidden in the tree line and almost seems to be watching you to ensure a safe passage along the way and to the destination itself.
Once at the top you pull into the carport where a valet will take your car, after you have unloaded your belongings, to go and park it in the garage allowing you the ability to head on into the Lodge itself. A large set of wooden double doors, the left with a wolf's head, the right with a bear's head, open forth to a bright and open welcoming entrance.
Staff and carts are on hand to help you with your bags while a smiling face greets you at the desk to handle your check in from prior registration, it is here that there are options for where you will be housed.
- Rooms within the lodge itself
- Personal cabins on the grounds
- Small 'igloos' with glass roofs in order to watch the northern lights
There are a number of various resources available within the lodge itself, and all services are open to each guest that stay there, with only a few places off limits. There are some locked doors, labeled as such for staff only and cleaning, supply closets, kitchen, etc.
Outdoor Offers the following amenities;
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fire pit
- Viewing Deck
- Walking Trails
- Skiing trails
- Slopes
- Lifts
- "Safe zone" for children to play, forts, igloos etc
- Greenhouse (Small)
- Garden
Indoors Offers the following amenities;
- Bar
- Open kitchen like buffet in dining room
- Pool
- Hot tub (In a glass room so you can watch the outside)
- Sauna
- Spa
- Gift Shop
- Sunroom with plants
- Library with computers
- Gym
- Game room (pool, foosball, Wii, etc)
- Theater (Plays a movie every night, with popcorn)
There are 4 levels to the lodge, you enter on the second level, levels 2 and 3 have rooms and there are some lofts and suites available on level 4. Each level has a main sitting area with comfy seats, televisions, plants, fireplaces, etc. It is all decorated with an old rustic feel to it but bears, wolves, and some felines (lynx, bobcat etc) are prominent in the decorations. Antlers found on location are used as well.
The Great Bear Rain forest is nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountain Range on the west coast of British Columbia. It is one of the largest tracts of temperate rain forest left in the world that is home to thousands of species of plants, birds and animals.
In this lush rain forest stand 1,000-year-old cedar trees and 90 metre tall Sitka spruce trees. Rich salmon streams weave through valley bottoms that provide food for magnificent creatures such as orcas, eagles, wolves, black bears, grizzlies, and the rare and mysterious white Kermode (Spirit) bear.
The property is a prime tourist destination for heli-skiing, sport fishing, ocean kayaking, hot spring trips or overnight excursions. Sport fisherman will find world class fishing for the five wild pacific salmon species, halibut, cod, crab or prawns all nearby. The nearby Dean River is renowned as one of the greatest steelhead fisheries in the world.
Attractions along Dean Channel include Eucott Hot Springs, the town of Ocean Falls, former First Nations village site at Kimsquit at the mouth of the Dean River, petroglyphs on the rocks near the mouth of Jump Across Creek and famed Mackenzie Rock the western terminus of Alexander MacKenzie’s explorations.
The Great Bear Rain forest covers 6.4 million hectares along BC’s Pacific Coast - an area almost the size of Ireland. With one quarter of the world’s coastal temperate rain forest, it offers breathtaking scenery and unparalleled recreational opportunities that draw from around the globe.
The Dean River is one of the major rivers of the Kitimat subrange of BC's southern Coast Mountains that begins in the volcanic-shield Ilgachuz Range on the Chilcotin Plateau and winds north around the Rainbow Range to enter Dean Channel at the now-uninhabited, remote community of Kimsquit. It is one of the few rivers to fully penetrate the wall of the Coast Mountains between the Fraser's mouth (near Vancouver) and the mouth of the Skeena River (near Prince Rupert). Kimsquit is a former village of the Nuxalk at the mouth of the Dean River on the northeast side of Dean Channel.