I used to live quite close to there. As the bird flies, doesn't seem that remote. Probably hard to get to though.
It seems a completely reasonable hike from the sandy bank of Azure lake (in summer).
Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
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#22Wow ... That Cave is huge ... What unexpected things could we find there?
The nazis who live in the hollow earth
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Edit: typo.
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#26It contains a maze of twisty little passages.
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#27There's a river going there, how could this have been missed? Anyone got a map of this?
BC is huge. For this particular spot, it's a very long distance from the nearest road, even one passable by high clearance 4x4. Unless you had the valley it's in as a specific destination, would be easy to miss. It is also not accessible by float plane, so either a multi day hike or helicopter.
If you look at where the population is concentrated in BC, the 10 largest cities, take a look at the total population of the province, and then look at how many square km it is...
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#28Wow ... That Cave is huge ... What unexpected things could we find there?
Possibly mammoth and saber tooth tiger bones, if some fell in a long time ago.
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#30There's a river going there, how could this have been missed? Anyone got a map of this?
BC is 950K km^2 with less than 5M people (drop Metro Vancouver and it's 2.5M). So 1.5 the size of France, the majority of which basically looks like Wells Gray (though Wells Gray has some extra beautiful spots). There are dozens of "Wells Gray like" parks, and most visitors don't hike up the mountains (and surely not off trails). So it's missable in theory. [EDIT]: also mentioned in another cover - explorers believe…
From the 2.5m remaining after you have subtracted Vancouver and the Fraser valley, now subtract the populations of nanaimo, Victoria, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nelson, osoyoos, Whistler, Campbell River, Prince George, fort St John, nelson and just about every other town that is big enough to have a few bank branches... The remaining rural area outside of any city limits is REALLY sparsely populated.