In late April a friend and I drove up to the Lillooet Valley, north of Harrison Lake. This is the territory of the St’at’imc (pronounced Stat lee um) First Nation. On the way we camped for the night beside Lizzie Creek, a white water mountain stream whose valley and high alpine passes give access to the Stein Valley Heritage Park. My mood that night in camp see-sawed between the joy of once again being in a favourite wilderness area, and anger that Lizzie, like hundreds of other streams and rivers across the province had been staked by a private power company.
