On the Barnes Trails - Kamloops Trails

On the Barnes Trails – Kamloops Trails

Doug Smith  February 16, 2024 at 9:00 am

On a mild winter day, I hiked the outside loop route on the Barnes Trails.    From the Gardiner Road trailhead, the lower trails were wet but not yet muddy.    Darker clouds swirled around the hills above the sagebrush grasslands for the first 2 km.  

I hiked a counter-clockwise loop going past Killdeer Pond on the west side of the trail system.  

As the route wound across the southern forested slopes, the trail climbed with several route choices.    I took the right fork each time, staying on the outside trails.      A few images from the hike are shared here.    Click an image for a lightbox view and a caption.

 

 

Fences border the south and southeast side of the trails, but there is good trail signage turning hikers in the right direction.   This hike was about 9 km

We will be back to hike the Barnes Trails in the spring…

 

 

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I started exploring this area in 1976 and I continue 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, I chose to share this information. Getting out 12 months each year, I continue to explore trails, tracks, routes, and waterways of the Kamloops area and beyond.


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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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