Here are a variety of services that are cater specifically to young backpacking travellers this summer. Passengers have up to mid-October to finish their journey. Stops are scheduled at hostels and at activities ranging from river rafting to mountain biking, glacier tours, jet skiing and horseback riding. You can explore Vancouver Island with Seagull Expeditions. Participants pay a small camping fee and contribute to a communal food kitty.
Camping equipment is supplied.
The three-day tour to Pacific Rim National Park includes opportunities for mountain biking and whale watching at Tofino. It departs Victoria every Saturday. Starting in June some tours will also depart from Vancouver. Seagull Expeditions offers a five per cent discount for Internet bookings. Travelling east the 11-passenger vehicles make overnight stops in Squilax at Shuswap Lake, providing the opportunity to explore a beaver dam, swim in the lake and stay in a hostel that has beds in former Canadian National Railway train cabooses.