So the next camp we stayed at was called Horseshoe. It is about 35.6kms from the start. It is about 18.3kms from Shalebanks campground. There was a campsite between shalebanks and horseshoe called Seldom Inn campground, which is about 25kms in, from the start. But it was to short of a walk, so I opted for the longer walk. From Shalebanks to Horseshoe was a pretty easy walk. The hard part was the bugs and length. The awesome part was that was the day we saw Snake Inadian Falls. Man, I haven't seen something that cool since Emperor falls at Robson. I didn't even know it exisited until I heard about this trail. It's definetly something a person needs to see. The path is wide enough to make it by bike. The cool thing is you can walk right up to it. Now of course, you end up on the top of the waterfall, but you can take some pretty awesome pictures. You do have to walk 200m to get to it, but it's worth it. After you reach that about a km away, the trail becomes really small and not rideable. So if you going to stay somewhere I suggest Seldom Inn or Shalebanks. Now I have totally forgot to mention this is a horse trail also. There are camps along the way that are just horse camps. So there is alot of horse s**t along the way. Keep that in mind. Also since the horses use the path the trail is pretty chewed up and uneven. But it doesn't get that way until after the falls. Horseshoe campground was nicer than Shalebanks. I was so happy to see it, I thought we had taken a wrong turn and miss it. It felt like it took forever to get there. It had a nice lookout. There were little wooden benches to sit. The campgrounds also have fire pits to start a fire. The washroom was so much better. It was almost like you were back home with a flush....but then you looked around and saw trees. This log they used was a little wider and even had a carved divet for, you know....The water was a little harder to get too, then the last one. You had to walk down this farley step hill. Now I don't know about you, but after walking 18kms that day, it was a little hard to navigate down the hill without completely losing it, a making a head dive. But we managed and even made it up the hill on the way back. It was easier to find a place to put the tent too. There were alot more flat spots to choose from. 'How about right by the fire pit?? Ok, why not, there's not a soul in sight.' The mosquito's weren't as bad at the camp....but the walk there, I was ready to start killing something, they were driving me insane. It was nice a sunny when we got there and we relaxed for a while before we decided to make supper. Me and my hiking mate are farely small, more her then me, and we can't carry all that much. So when we were planning for the trip we had tryed a few experiments. We were trying to lighten the amount of food we had to bring. So we tryed minute rice in ziplock bags. You stick 3/4 of a cup of rice and a dash of salt and some chicken powder brooth in a ziplock bag. Then when your ready to eat, you heat up some water to a boil and put 3/4 of a cup of water in the ziplock and close it and let it sit for 5 mins. Wala...chicken flavored rice, that is actually pretty good. And the best part is all you have to wash is the spoon and wash the ziplock out. This way you don't have to take as much dishsoap, cause that is really heavy. The rest of the night went smoothly, except the damn mosquitos. My worst enemy!!!


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