Leaving Lillooet we made a quick stop at Seton Lake to admire the beautiful scenery of the dam and its surrounding mountains.

We continued on Highway 99 South which is a very steep and winding road. The next 120 kilometers took us over two hours. But driving through the tall mountains on both sides was stunning.

We could not believe our eyes when all of a sudden Duffey Lake appeared before us. The scenery of the calm blue lake with Cayoosh Mountain in the background is exactly what I pictured Canada to be.

Getting closer to Whistler we pulled into a parking lot at Joffre Lakes Provincial Park to do a short hike that we had found on Google. We should have investigated further: in order to do this hike you need to acquire a day pass of which they issue 500 each day. Without it you are not allowed to start on the trail. We talked to a young park ranger and he told us that they had to put a limit on the number of people on the trail as the year before on some days they had 4.000 visitors going up to the waterfall.

Instead he pointed us to other hikes without restriction and so we decided to do the easy three kilometers walk along Green River to Nairn Falls. The path too was crowded but not as busy as Joffre Lake. You walk to the waterfall and back along the Green River under tree cover. As it was already quite hot the shade made the hike very pleasant.

What we intended to be a short stop right before Whistler was Green Lake Park, however, the lake turned out to be so beautiful that we decided to stay and cool off a bit.

Final destination for the day was Whistler. Originally we had intended to take the gondola up the mountain and already get a peak of the area we wanted to explore further the next day. Staying at Green Lake had changed the plan and we were already too late to take the gondola up the mountain. So instead we roamed through the bustling town of Whistler.

Whistler is known for the 2010 Olympics. Today it is visited by snow affacionados in winter and by hikers and mountain bikers in summer.