Bow Lake Snowshoe – Kamloops Trails
There are a number of off-road-vehicle routes on the flank of Chuwhels Mountain that can be hiked or snowshoed. Some navigation is required and there may or may not be any tracks to follow. I parked off the side of the road to Lodgepole Lake and snowshoed up one of the trails to Bow Lake and back.
For much of the route there was a snowshoe track to follow, though tracks also went off in other directions, but I used a mapping app to keep me on track.
Bow Lake is another hidden lake in the forest. I crossed the lake and could see that a loop route was possible, but for this day, I returned the way I came.
The return solo snowshoe adventure was 5.5 km taking about 1.75 hours. I followed the wrong tracks twice but corrected both times so the route van be done in 1.5 hours.
Doug Smith
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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