Over the Bush Lake South Ridges

Over the Bush Lake South Ridges

Doug Smith  January 29, 2022 at 8:50 am

The Bush Lake area offers many winter routes for snowshoeing.   The area south of Bush Lake has a number of ridges, forested slopes, cutblocks, marshes, drainages, and double tracks which can be combined to create a new route each time out stomping in the high country.   On a recent mild winter day I made eclectic choices, following some tracks and making some of my own. 

It’s a lot easier to follow an established track, but if it isn’t going the way you want to go, you have to strike off and make a new track. 

There was some low winter sun breaking through clouds.  Tthe views are mostly snow, trees, and winter skies for these short winter days.  

We can’t cross marshes in the other seasons so we take the opportunity to stomp a track across marshes and the edges of small lakes wherever we can.  

We will snowshoe in the Bush Lake area and in the Dogwood Marshes across the road over a dozen times this winter, taking a different route each day.

 

 

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Doug writes for Kamloops Trails, a not-for-profit (and ad free) website, offering information on trails, waterways, routes, featured spots, viewpoints, and explorations in the outdoors in the Kamloops area (and beyond).

Doug started exploring this area in 1976 and continues to follow tracks and routes wherever they lead, with the aid of map, compass, GPSr and camera. After many dead-ends, but also many discoveries, he chose to share this information.

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