While camping at Miracle Beach Park on Vancouver Island, we did three nearby hikes, this one 14 km northwest of Campbell River. Mohun Creek runs for 12 km from Mohun Lake down to the ocean at Menzies Bay. A Forest Service Road runs west toward Strathcona Park. At 4 km the trailhead is on the side of the road by … Continue reading…
While camping at Miracle Beach on Vancouver Island we found three hikes in the area, two of them by the Oyster River only 3 – 4 km away. On a hot and sunny morning I drove onto Hamm Road, then MacAuley road to the Bear Creek Loop Road and trailheads. The area is managed by the Oyster River Enhancement Society … Continue reading…
One of our favorite hiking areas is in the Lundbom Grasslands (Commonage). We usually hike a route in June and sometimes return for a different route in the fall. On a fine June morning we drove through Merritt, then up Highway 5A, turning onto the Lundbom FSR. We parked near Lundbom Lake and hiked toward Hamilton Lake. We had hiked … Continue reading…
Every year in June, we hike a different trail in the Wells Gray Park corridor area. We have done them all more than once so we pick ones we haven’t done for a while. I had hiked White Horse Bluff twice before, but not for some years, so we looked forward to our hike this year. On our previous hike … Continue reading…
The trail from the Wells Gray Corridor Road to Bailey’s Chute and beyond to Marcus Falls, Myanth Falls, and back past West Lake is a fine km hike in the forest by the Clearwater River. We hiked the 5.3 km loop route in June when the river was at its fullest. There is a viewing platform at Bailey’s Chute which … Continue reading…
We have hiked up to Red Plateau quite a few times from the Dewdrop Range and from the Pimple area, and we have driven up the Red Plateau Forest Service Road to hike various routes on top, but we had never hiked the area where the High Noon and Superstitious Trails are located. They are really just steep downhill mountain … Continue reading…
I explored the hills above Battle Creek in the Cache Creek Hills, watching for shale slopes (fossils), wildflowers, interesting rocks, and wildlife. There were no trails and I picked an eclectic route. I spotted more hills to explore, so I will return again this year to climb through the hills. The Thompson River wound through the valley bottom towards Ashcroft. … Continue reading…
There are no established trails in the corridor down the Trans Canada Highway, but there are various spots where we can hike up into the dry hills to create our own routes, avoiding fencelines and grazing slopes. It takes some exploration, but over the years we have found some hills to hike, leaving nothing but temporary footprints in our wake. … Continue reading…
In early May we hiked the Deep Lake trail, taking the turns to complete the extended loop, a 7.3 km route. Most of the group hiked up from Westsyde Road since there is very little parking near the trailhead. The lower slopes are in the grasslands, with a scattering of pine and fir trees and some old snags. We continued … Continue reading…
The Outer Inks Trail system is a wide area of forested routes on the lower slopes of Chuwhels and Greenstone Mountain. The Coquihalla Highway is the eastern border. There are a few roads and a lot of ATV tracks. Many of the single and double tracks provide good hiking, especially in the off-season for motorized vehicles. Some of the tracks … Continue reading…
Although we have hiked to the Guardsmen many times, we try to take a different route each time or to combine different detours, often taking an eclectic approach along the way. The Guardsmen are a number of large hoodoos standing over Tranquille River in a difficult-to-get-to spot of the rugged canyon. We started at the trailhead for the … Continue reading…
There is some fine hiking terrain near Six Mile Hill in the hills above the TransCanada Highway to the west of Kamloops. An old road bears off to the left just past the Tobiano turn. If you take this turn watch for vehicles moving quickly since it is a sharp turn onto a bumpy road. Some of the Six Mile … Continue reading…
We hiked up through the Mara Canyon Trail and continued up the ridge to the junction with the Mara Ridge trail, but on this day we turned and went to the top of the mountain first. Although I have done the Mara Canyon Loop many times (for 45 years and at least once per year), I only do the route … Continue reading…
In early April I hiked from the Wade Road parking area (by the bridge) down the river toward the outflow and back through the forest, a 7 km route. The trails were all in good shape, they were quiet, and the hike by the river was a welcome change. The trails are all part of Tsútcwecw Provincial Park, formerly Roderick … Continue reading…
There is a triangular shaped benchland between Owl Road and Highland Drive that is incised by gullies, pitted with sinkholes, and ringed by silt cliffs. Access is by a trail from the start of Owl Road or from a trail on Highland Drive. Double tracks and single tracks provide about 6 km of hiking. On my hike on a cool, … Continue reading…
We eagerly awaited a week of hiking in the Superstition Mountains, but we only really got in one day because of the Covid-19 outbreak. We knew we would be leaving Apache Junction soon, so we wanted to do a good one and the hike up Siphon Draw to the Flatiron fit perfectly (our favorite hike in Arizona this year). We … Continue reading…
