Winter Backroads: Walloper FSR - Kamloops Trails

Winter Backroads: Walloper FSR – Kamloops Trails

Doug Smith  February 2, 2022 at 9:00 am

In winter the backroads become blanketed in snow and they make fine snowshoeing corridors.    An out-and-back is easier in the snow, but it is more fun to create a loop route, which may mean stomping through deeper snow.    A long route through deep snow is okay, but quite tiring so some kind of planning helps, using maps and Google Earth.     Sometimes it takes several outings to develop new routes.   I had snowshoed the Walloper Lake FSR before, but in checking Google Earth imagery, I could see a hidden lake to explore and by reviewing maps with OHV Trails shown, I developed a plan to explore an area.    Earlier I had checked out the parking area for the Walloper FSR on my way back from Lodgepole Lake so that is where the stomp started.  

There are a number of older cutblocks in the area, some forested hills, some ponds and marshes, and areas of lodgepole windfall.

I went south of the road and turned onto a secondary road, bearing southeast.    I spotted the hidden lake through the trees and bushwhacked my way to the shoreline.     I snowshoed down the lake to the south end, then looked for a forest opening to find my way to the single track trail on the map.    The snow was deep and progress was slow, but I found the trail and followed it, going north.   I limited the volume of off-track stomping by rejoining my track, but for the last section followed another snowshoe track back to the start.  

I will build on this to explore more terrain in the area.   There are more hidden lakes, trails, and routes to check out.  

 

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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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