The Southern Chilcotin mountains are known for their beauty and remoteness and are threatened by misuse of the natural resources they possess. The area has only recently been downgraded by the BC government to a mere protected area in order to again allow logging contracts to be signed.



Our excursion is far from the most Epic in the Big Wild Challenge, and there are no backcountry superstars here. Just 7 everyday office jocks and 1 wildlife technician with a guide, biting off as much as we can chew and hoping that we can raise awareness that the ability for regular folks to take this kind of journey and the very ecosystems we go to see are under threat. The funds we raise will go to organizations which monitor and work against casual destruction of our Canadian Wilderness for short-term gain in the hopes that we will always have someplace to find ourselves on another Hoover Epic.




Hoover Epic: A definition.




The oftentimes result of excursions initiated by one Lorne Hoover (our mighty captain) seeming to turn simple day trips and minor exercise involuntarily into a grand adventure on an epic scale, primarily through the use of faulty memory, attempted echolocation, moon positioning, map abuse and many other similar methods.




Though we are all guilty of these faults throughout our trips, in the end we embark on: Just Another Hoover Epic!