Clearwater Lake Lodge and Resort: Horn Lake and Buff Lake

May 13, 2009 | Tips from Travellers > Clearwater, Scenic Drives

Another option if you are headed down the Tatlayoko Valley is to take the right fork and drive into the Horn Lake and Buff Lake area.  We stopped for a quick lunch that Gisela had made up for us at a wonderful little campground on the eastern shore of Horn Lake.  This is a small campground but it lies right on the shores of the lake with a plenty of space between each of the campsites so there some level of privacy.  It’s actually quite nice and I’ll recommend it to my Mom and Day who like to find out-of-the-way places to take their fifth wheel and camp for several days at a time.  They would love this spot and the pooch could take a swim any time right from their camp site.

Next up we drove another fifteenish minutes to Buff Lake which is also gorgeous and past that we ended up at White Saddle Air Services which is located at the far end of the lake.  This section of the road is a bit more difficult to get through but totally doable if you take your time.  This is also the location where parts of Seven Years in Tibet was filmed starring Brad Pit.  In one scene he climbs this huge section of rock wall and yes, you guessed it, we actually drive right by that section of the rock wall where this was filmed.  In the movie it appears to be a massive cliff high off the valley, but in reality it is a rock wall about twenty feet high and Brad Pitt was never any more than about a foot off the ground at any time.  

Posted by Kelly W-S, Nanaimo at 08:27 AM

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