Biggest Backyard

Watch an eagle circle above Tobiano's scenic 15th hole. Urge a canter at the Equestrian Centre. Trim the luff from your sail. Focus your binoculars on a nesting pair of loons. Smell the sage while hiking or biking backcountry trails. Listen for the paddle's cadence with each stroke. Wait patiently for proof of your day's "big catch". Watch the setting sun paint the iron-rich mountains a crimson red. Find your sign in the vast evening sky. Strap on your snowshoes after a new fallen snow...

The only thing bigger than your Tobiano backyard is the contentment you will feel at the end of each day.

If your desire for adventure takes you further down the road...

• Set fresh tracks in the champagne powder of the Cariboo and Monashee ranges with Mike Weigele Helicopter Skiing.
• Gear up for a Kamloops downhill mountain biking adventure - favoured by extreme sport cinematographer Warren Miller as the Mountain Biking Mecca of Canada.
• Hike to Helmcken Falls in Wells Gray Park - an intense natural waterfall twice the height of Niagara Falls.
• Observe the annual Adams River Salmon Run - where two million sockeye return from the ocean to spawn new life.
• Run the rapids of the Fraser or Thompson Rivers.
• Search for gemstones or fossil hunt on Kamloops Lake's north shore.
• Ski 2,000 vertical metres of "steep and deep" at Sun Peaks Resort, less than an hour from Tobiano.
• Boat from Tobiano along the South Thompson River all the way to the Shuswap Lakes.