INSIDERS HAVE known about Cathedral [ akes for years and many of them weren’t telling!

Who wants to give away your favorite secret hideaway? Ino my job I've done that many times and found that we couldn’: pet the bookings we wanted as the spot was full of North Shore's finest.

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However, my daughter ‘and son-in-law spent a wonderful summer weekend at Cathedral Lakes Lodge and brought me home the full story.

Near Keremeos (five hours from the North Shore via the Hope- Princeton), the lodge can only be reached by private road closed to all but the owner’s four-wheel- ‘drive shuttles,

Visitors must park their cars in a locked compound and are taken up‘the :mountain at. three sched- _uled times -- 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Suzy cautions not to be iate for your pick-up.

So what’s the attraction of Ca- thedral Lakes? Perhaps solitude is

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the primary draw. Here you can gettruly ‘tout of this world.””

We all Know that British Col- umbia is unsurpassed for com- muning with nature but in this in- accessible (except as mentioned) spot, there’s nothing to come be- tween the visitor and Beautiful British Columbia, Don’t expect a TV or telephones.

instead, took up. The lodge is at the 3,000-foot level and there are multitudes of hiking trails, ail maintained by Cathedral Provin- cial Park.

Avid climbers can spend days on these trails, returning to the lodge for sumptuous meals or en- joying a packed lunch on their way.

This is also a Mecca for rock- climbers but Suzy warned that it might be best left to the experi- enced ones.

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Solitude draws visitors to Cathedral Lakes

eet a glimpse of bighorn sheep and mountain eouts — a rare sight for most of us.

Flowers in the Afpine meadows are. breathtaking in’ the spring. “The whole thing is right out of The Sound of Music — in fact we broke into a chorus of Climb Every Mountain.”

Creature comforts are delightful. First, the food. Breakfast. starts the visitor off with a table full of home-made porridge, delicious assorted baked breads and muffins and then, “Anything you want!"

Any sort of traditional break fast is offered.

Both lunch and dinner are buf- fets — a typical dinner: soup, poached salmon with dill sauce, white rice, garden salad, harvard beets, peas and more of the wonderful home-made bread.

Desserts vary — home-made

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pastries and fresh fruit salad are always featured.

And if vou should catch a fish, theyll gladly serve it to you for dinner.

Guests may either stay in the Lodge, which has six very farge tooms with shared bathroom fa- cilities, or, for those who prefer cabins, both small and large (up to eight people) are available.

The park itself is three times larger in area than Switzerland and has five accessible lakes — excellent trout fishing. if you prefer to take a break from hiking there are boats tor the taking.

You'll need good hiking shoes, warm jackets and sensible pants.

I'd bring along warm pajamas! Remember, even in mid-summer, mountain air can be very cool at night.

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For more information — reser- vation office: RR i, Cawston, B.C. VOX 1CO, (604) 499-5848. Cathedral Lakes is open June 15-Oct. 15,

1 mentioned in my last column that my old high school (ACHS in Medicine Hat) is having a giant reunion like they kad about 10 years ago, including the other high school, STC.

Anyone who would like more information about this can give me a call or write B.J. Mad- daford, 301 - 9th St. S.E., Medi- cine Hat, Aita., TIA 1N4.

} would never miss a reunion! So far I’ve been to three, in-

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