Cows with Guns Hike
On a snowy winter day, I hike the Batchelor Hills, going up the Tower Trail and coming back down the Cows with Guns Trail. I hiked in a snow storm for the second half of the outing. All of the … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Lac du Bois Grasslands Protected Area
Rambling through the Bluebird Hills
As winter snows disappeared and the ground started to defrost, I headed into the Dewdrop Range on mostly dry terrain, hiking over the hills and dropping into gullies to explore frozen waterfalls. The route followed the Bluebird Trail at the … Continue reading →
Slot Canyons on Tranquille River
Tranquille River Canyon is a rugged area from Tranquille Crossing right down to Kamloops with steep walls or rock in some sections. In the narrowest part of the canyon, the walls are vertical and close enough together to be called … Continue reading →
Knitting Opax
Opax Mountain is a sprawling high plateau sitting northwest of Lac du Bois. The sides are steep and a lava cliff fringes the south, west, and east sides, but there are two routes up and some good hiking, biking, and … Continue reading →
Long Lake Loop
In the middle of the Lac du Bois Grasslands lies a long, narrow lake. Long Lake sits at the bottom of a trench between the Bachelor Range and the Upper Grasslands. The lake itself is 1.5 km long, but there … Continue reading →
Heritage Cairns
The Lac du Bois area was used by ranchers back in the 1870s, but it was homesteaded starting in 1896 and quarter sections were claimed by homesteaders between 1910 and 1920. Between Wheeler Flats and Lac du Bois, about 150 … Continue reading →