A new KamloopsTrails website will be used starting at the Spring Equinox. The new site will be at Kamloopstrails.ca. This site will stay available for a period of time, but all new posts will be on the new site. Sites that have a lot of content and a lot of changes become slow and unreliable over time. As …Continue reading…
An excellent resource is the website firesmoke.ca (also available as an app). With this resource, we can visually see where the smoke will be (and how much) hour to hour for the next 36 hours. What I do is I use the slider (press pause, then go forward one hour at a time) to see where the smoke will be. …Continue reading…
At the end of winter we have sometimes taken a week’s holiday on one of the Gulf Islands to hike, paddle, and explore. One of those mid-March escapes resulted in walking and paddling in the rain a fair amount, with a few dry parts too. We got out every day with our rain gear ready. Arbutus trees by the water’s …Continue reading…
A new YouTube video, a fly-around Skoatl Point (a favorite hike) using Google Earth and lots of new things to learn: Click the YouTube link on the menu bar for over 100 KamloopsTrails videos.
A new video is now available on YouTube – The Hidden Valley Trail hike in Moab, Utah: There are many more videos on the KamloopsTrails Channel on YouTube.
When we go up Clearwater Lake and then up the river to Azure Lake and then east on Azure, we are going around Azure and Zodiac Mountains. Though they rise above both lakes they are somewhat hidden and inaccessible. From satellite imagery there are open ridges, tarns, snowfields, and rugged peaks to explore. The first known ascent of Zodiac Mountain …Continue reading…
High in the cliffs on Savona Mountain are the Savona Caves, part of Savona Mountain Provincial Park. It is steep climb up rocky ridges to the caves. In the caves are some embedded boulders with First Nations pictographs. All images are red, probably from ochre and seem to follow the same icon patterns of other Interior sites. Caves were sometimes …Continue reading…
When we first started hiking, running, and walking in the Upper Sahali area green space was abundant. As development expanded the neighborhoods, but some easements and green spaces were planned. Some access sections were closed (illegally) by homeowners who built fences across the designated easements, but enforcement did not happen. Nevertheless, some were kept open. In fact, the City has …Continue reading…
The upper end of the Goose Lake Road is all forested and the lower end is all grasslands, but 2/3 of the way up are some routes out to the edge of the forest where there are some nice views. From one of the hills, I could see over to Sugarloaf Hill (to the northwest). Some western spring beauty flowers …Continue reading…
We were in Tuscon recently and hiked trails in several mountain ranges. Some of the hikes are featured here in KamloopsTrails and some of the wildflowers we saw are featured on A WildflowerJournal (the feed is in a widget on the right side). One article is published already and more will be shared, interspersed intermittently with local hikes, paddling, and …Continue reading…