The area north of Lac du Bois Grasslands Provincial Park is the Lac du Bois Grasslands Conservation Area, now owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Hikers can hike old tracks through the upper grasslands and mixed forests on the south side of McQueen Lake. An old double track which was once a wagon/cart track for homesteads is now a grassland route that can be … Continue reading →
On a sunny but smoky late summer day I drove up through the Lac du Bois Grasslands to the Nature Conservation Area in the upper grasslands and douglas fir forests south of McQueen Lake. I hiked an old grasslands track, then took a grown-in single track around Clay Lake, then looped back through the forested slopes and grasslands. Clay Lake had low water levels from … Continue reading →
On a mid-July morning I hiked a trail I have done quite a few times from McQueen Lake to Isobel Lake. this was once called the Forest Capital Trail, and interpretive route with a series of numbered signs with a printed guide available to McQueen Lake students and others. The trail starts 0.25 km past the road into the McQueen Lake Center. It angles … Continue reading →
I snowshoed a route through the upper grasslands of the Lac du Bois Conservation Area up to a series of viewpoints on the southwest side of Clapperton Ridge a few days ago in sunny conditions. Then, I took a group up the same route after a snowfall in greyer conditions. The same route was a bit harder with two snowfalls filling in the tracks. … Continue reading →
