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GOLD BRIDGE — His name was Richard and he used to
live at Bralorne when it was a gold-mining town. Now he
was back with his wife and children for a Bralorne reunion,

but staying at Tyax Mountain Lake Resort.

It was evening and he had been
fishing on the lake in front of the
lodge. He had caught several trout
and was just pulling the canoe on
to the beach when he heard a
splash.

Richard looked at the spreading
ripples on the lake and knew what
he had to do. He got back in the
canoe and cast the fine one more
time. And he caught a trout, big-
ger than the others. Maybe even
the one that had teased him.

Then he quit, although he could
have got more because in the fail-
ing dusk the trout were jumping all
over the lake. He walked into the
bar and said that vas enough ac-
tivity for one day and that he
would have a beer.

Tyax is like that. You can go
from dawn to dusk, riding, playing
tennis, doing all kinds of things on
the lake, gold-panning, taking a
helicopter up to alpine meadows
covered with flowers, or relaxing
in the sauna, taking a jacuzzi and
reading a book.

Getting there can be a bit of a
hike. The easiest way is to fly, 40
minutes and $85 from Vancouver.
Or you can drive, as I did via
Whistler and the Hurley Pass road,
which takes about four hours. The
gravel stretch from Pemberton to
Gold Bridge winds up and down a
mountain but is negotiable in a
standard car jn summer.

The Duffy Lake road via
Lillooet is better quality gravel,
but takes another hour. A further
alternative is to go by Lytton and
Hope, which is a six-hour trip.

If you’re not breathless when
you arrive you soon will be when
you see the magnificent lodge of
honey-gold spruce logs at the head
of a beautiful lake surrounded
with trees. Snow-capped moun-
tains provide a dramatic backdrop.

Some guests are happy just to sit
on the lodge patio and look down
the lake, thinking perhaps that
with a place like this who needs
their own cabin and all the expense
and work that goes with it. For a
fraction of the cost you can come
to Tyax and leave the roof repairs
and the washing of the dishes to
somebody else.

That would be Gus Abel, who
runs Tyax with the enthusiasm of a
man who is doing what he wants to
do. Yet not so many years ago he
was captain of a freighter which
used to call regularly at Van-
couver. He was an accomplished
mariner, having got his master’s
ticket at Bremen when he was just

While the crew went to No. 5
Orange Street, Abel went inland,
exploring B.C. by canoe and

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horseback. He started to take his
holidays here, and then decided to
give up the sea and move to
Canada.

Abel immigrated in 1976 and
worked for six summers as a hun-
ting and fishing guide, also as a
photo-journalist for European
magazines and doing wildlife pro-

emorable getaway

grams for Radio Canada’s interna-
tional service.

Mostly he stayed in rough
camps, which gave him the idea
that there was a market for a
resort where the same clients could
bring their families.

When he came across the prop-
erty for sale by the lake, he knew it
was the right spot. It was accessi-
ble to Vancouver, it was in the
mountains and near a lake, and it
had a good climate.

Abel, now 42, found backers
and opened the lodge last year. It
has 28 comfortable rooms, a din-
ing room with view of the lake, a
bar where wranglers can always be
found talking about wrangling, a
games room with all kinds of
diversions for children and exercise
area.

But most of all it’s there, a
superb building with a great stone
fireplace which contains a Dutch
oven for fresh bread daily. Restau-
rant meals are robust and there is a
meal plan for vacationers.

As Abel says, the mountain air
makes people hungry, and all the
year round too, for in winter Tyax
caters to cross-country skiers.

The kitchen will even cook your
catch, as it did for Richard. The
morning | left, Richard was sitting
down to trout for breakfast.

Summer rates are $98 double,
fall (from Oct. 1) $78. Contact
238-2221.

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