The Gattling Gorge Trail has been an informal trail in Wells Gray Provincial Park for many years, but it is now signed and the trail is a good one, with some caution. the route goes right from the Helmcken Falls viewpoints and continues along the rim, offering fine views for 2 km. When the trail starts to go downhill into …Continue reading…
The Ministry of Forests has issued Canfor a license to log the lower slopes of Trophy Mountain. The group that is opposed to the logging has the website Liberally Screwed for more information.
The premier hike of our area is into the Trophy Mountains in Wells Gray Provincial Park. It is a 2 hour drive from Kamloops to the trailhead. The trail is a good one with a large parking lot, signs, and a well-graded trail. We can hike up to the end of the trail in 2 hours and from there, we …Continue reading…
A good trail leads from the end of the Clearwater River Road up to Sylvia and Goodwin Falls and beyond to Mahood Lake (article on this route). In July of 2015, we started from the other end and hiked down from Mahood Lake. There are two trails – a fisherman’s trail down the north side of the river …Continue reading…
The route over two of the summits of the Trophy Mountains is a complex one involving hiking, scrambling and route-finding. We hiked through the meadows to the top of Trophy Two, then followed the ridgeline down to the high col between the two mountains and scrambled up Trophy One to the summit. We then followed the broad ridge south to …Continue reading…
The Gattling Gorge Trail starts at Helmcken Falls in Wells Gray Provincial Park. From the viewing area, just continue along the rim as it follows the Murtle River west. After a kilometre it looks out over the confluence of the Murtle and Clearwater Rivers. As the trail turns north upriver, it descends eventually down to the river’s edge at Gattling …Continue reading…
The hike to the base of Moul Falls is one of the best trails of our area. BC Parks has established a good parking lot and trailhead just off the Wells Gray Corridor Road, 20.7 km from the start of the road. The trail follows an old road for its first half, then a single track follows Grouse Creek to …Continue reading…
When we started to hike the Interior in the mid-1970’s, we purchased a copy of Exploring Wells Gray Park by Roland Neave. It was our guide to the Park and we hiked every route we could and did not really finish the listed hikes until the 1990’s. Some routes have disappeared as deadfall and overgrowth has returned paths to forest …Continue reading…