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The Toboggan Creek Hatchery
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by GetawayBC.com
Did you know that it only takes 12 female chinook to produce 37,000 eggs – enough to keep Toboggan Creek Hatchery’s stocks running high? Each year the hatchery breeds about 150,000 coho and chinook, w
The Bulkley Valley Museum
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by GetawayBC.com
Valentine’s Day, 1950: fires erupt in the engines of a B-36 bomber en route from Alaska to Texas, atomic weaponry in tow. The bomber begins to plummet hundreds of feet every minute. With no chance of
Smithers Community Forest
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by GetawayBC.com
Hike beneath lodgepole pine, hybrid spruce, black cottonwood and alder trees. Beside you the devils club, thimbleberry and false box shrubs flourish. Identify the wild herbs: dwarf dogwood, kinnikinni
Smithers Perimeter Trail
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by GetawayBC.com
Looking for a getaway just steps away from down town Smithers? This 13-kilometre trail that links rivers, nature parks and neighbourhood streets is your answer. Walk, jog, mountain bike or ride horseb
Be Bear Aware
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by GetawayBC.com
Ready or not, bears active this time of year and it’s everyone’s responsibility to educate themselves on the bear facts. Here’s what you need to know to prevent conflict with bears:
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Driftwood Canyon Park
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by GetawayBC.com
Fifty million years ago, subtropical conditions in the Valley’s shallow lakes and wetland swaps created a prime environment for plant, animal and insect life to flourish. Remarkably, the fossils of th
The Telkwa Museum
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by GetawayBC.com
What’s that you hear in the distance? Why, those are sleigh bells ringing and it’s not even half way to Christmas yet! The jingling is coming from The Telkwa Museum – a former school house brimming wi
Smithers raises more than $80,000 in Relay for Life
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 by GetawayBC.com
Emily Cavallin is an inspiration.
An inspiration to those who are fighting cancer, those who have survived the disease and those who are dealing with the loss of someone to cancer.
On Saturday nig
Creative Roots on display
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 by GetawayBC.com
Creative Roots dancers Madison Rensby-Wills and Bonnie Hughson have advanced to the provincial Fetival of the Arts in Penticton later this month after dazzling judges at their final festival of the ye
WESTERN CANADIAN CROSS COUNTRY SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 by GetawayBC.com
February 8 to 11, 2007
Smithers BC has had the honour of being chosen by Cross Country Canada and Cross Country BC to be the host community for the 2007 Western Canadian Championships.
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