July, 2018 July 1 – Mabel Lake July 6 – Wild Horse Ridge June, 2018 June 4 – Walloper Lake paddle June 6 – Three Amigos Hike June 8 – Floodlands paddle June 10 – Galiano Island hike June 11 – 13 – Wallace Island June 16 – Stake Lake paddle and hike June 20 – Inks Lake …Continue reading…
As winter snows melt, some backroads open up for early season biking. Goose Lake Road is a favorite. From Knutsford, turn onto the Long Lake Road and at 1.5 km, turn right (west) onto the Goose Lake Road. The pavement ends a short ways along. We usually park at the top of the first little rise. We get on our …Continue reading…
Information on the main Kamloops area hiking trails is now found on a companion website: Kamloops Hiking Trails (www.kamloopshikingtrails.net) The rest of the lesser-known trails in the area will be shown on a Google Map here and the relevant articles can be found by using a search using the keyword/tag listed on the Google Map. Kamloops Trails Google Map The …Continue reading…
There are over 2000 posts about hiking, paddling, and snowshoeing routes on this site. They were mostly written soon after doing the route. Back in 2010, the articles were shorter and there was less integration with Google Earth, GPS, maps, and recent photos. By 2013, the posts are full of photos, maps and Google Earth routes. For some hikes, I …Continue reading…
We were out on three local trails this last week and short updates and links are provided on all three. Moonscape Trail – the Kamloops Indian Band has requested that all on-line references to hiking the trail be removed. Peterson Creek East Rim Trails go up the west side of Peterson Creek all the way to Castle Towers, but there …Continue reading…
A single track route has been in place all the way from Peterson Creek to Barnhartvale for many years, long before the first house was built in Juniper. The west end has a piece of private land and fences, so it is less used. The eastern end now has a gravel pit and a private home to steer around, but …Continue reading…
The Goose Lake Road is a favorite early season bike route. Start at the lower end and park your vehicle near the junction with the Long Lake Road. The road turns to gravel quickly, but the day I rode it, it had been freshly graded. In a two hour ride on a weekday, I only saw three vehicles along this …Continue reading…