Panorama Ridge Hike
The first time I hiked up onto Panorama Ridge was in 1969. In the next 15 years I hiked to the top of Black Tusk, over Gentian Pass, over Mt. Price, around the lake, up Helm Glacier, and a loop … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Hiking
Goose Lake Road Winter Hikes
When trails became snowed in with wet snow, an alternative is to hike less-traveled gravel roads. A favorite is the Goose Lake Road. The road is usually plowed so we can walk/hike on the shoulder out and back. … Continue reading →
Garibaldi Lake Trail
We have hiked up the trail to Garibaldi Lake a number of times, but not recently. On our first time up the trail in 1969, there was no one around and we camped on the Battleships Islands, long before … Continue reading →
Naked Pistol Loop
Near the end of November the snows had not yet fallen and the trails were still relatively dry and with some business on the North Shore later in the day, I chose to hike trails in the Batchelor Hills. … Continue reading →
Taylor Basin Hike
In a previous year, we traveled northwest – to Lillooet, then north and west to Carpenter Lake, then north to Tyaughton Lake. We stayed at Tyax Lodge. One of the hikes we did was a hike through Taylor Basin, … Continue reading →
East Rim 150
When I arrived in Kamloops in 1976, the first hikes I did were all in Peterson Creek. The area was not a park at that time, but there were trails to the canyon from the lower end, and from Sahali. … Continue reading →
Tullin Mountain Hike
We have traveled to the Chilcotin area a number of times, exploring trails, lakes, and various routes. On one of these trips, we drove from the Chilcotin Highway down the Chilko River Road to the north end of Chilko … Continue reading →
Dry Hills Hike
In the hills above the Thompson River estuary and Kamloops Lake are expansive sagebrush – grassland slopes. There are some scattered ponderosa pines and shrubs in drainages. The north side of the steeper hills have mixed forests of … Continue reading →
Central Mountain Hike
We have been to Murtle Lake a few times and we have paddled the whole lake and have done some hikes from the lakeshore. Between the North Arm and the West Arm is Central Mountain. Steep slopes rise above … Continue reading →
Stony Lake Track
On a mid-October day I drove into the upper grasslands to the Lac d Bois Conservancy Area and hiked a loop route around Stony Lake. The old double track was a cart track for homesteaders who grazed livestock on the … Continue reading →