Coal Hill Ramble – Kamloops Trails
There are several route choices for Coal Hill. On a drizzly, grey morning I chose to start from Aberdeen and work my way to the top of the hill using trails and some cross-country sections, avoiding fences, and leaving no trace.
The route was through douglas fir forest and up sagebrush grassland slopes.
The steady climb is about 2.2 km with about 220 m of elevation gain. All photos by the author. Click an image for a lightbox view.
We hope to get up to the top of Coal Hill in the fall, probably from the northwest. A few moments are caught in this YouTube video:
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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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