Opening the gate to enter Lac Du Bois: we traveled about one km on a very bumpy trail before we had to leave the car behind–no motorized vehicles allowed past that point. I wanted to save time on the flats so I’d have more time to climb high into the hills–we had a soccer game to get to!
Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
–Walt Whitman
Hiking the grasslands just outside of Kamloops,BC is a true Canadian walk through history. The hills of Lac Du Bois, BC were once part of the Hudson Bay Brigade trail. Hiking at Lac Du Bois is an authentic wild west experience: craggy cliffs, rolling hills, sage brush, rushing creeks, and the never ceasing call of meadow larks.
I try to hike at Lac Du Bois every spring; it is the best time to spot migrating birds, spring flowers, and roaming mountain sheep.
I hope you enjoy pictures from a spring hike at Lac Du Bois ’16:
Tall sage in a tree formation–Lac Du Bois, Mix HartThis colourful Western tanager male bird flew fast and low, like a fighter jet, and then landed in a fir tree–Lac Du Bois, Mix HartThe sage brush covered slopes of Lac Du Bois, Mix HartA massive thistle head about to bloom–thistle plants may be painful to step on but the flowers are exquisite–Lac Du Bois, Mix Hart
Peter hiking at Lac Du Bois–Mix HartThe sage slopes lead to old, smooth mountains–Lac Du Bois, Mix HartHappy to be back hiking my favourite grassland area in BC–Lac Du Bois, Mix HartThis appears to be a type of yarrow; I found the pink and cream yarrow flowers so pretty and unusual–Lac Du Bois, Mix HartHiking selfie of me and Peter–Lac Du Bois, Mix Hart
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