Lac du Bois on a holiday Monday

The weather was sunny and cool on Monday, after a rainy weekend. We spent the whole day geocaching in the Lac du Bois grasslands. They were pretty this time of year, but didn't have nearly as much growth as other areas to the east.  Still, it was nice to see them while they are still green.

It wasn't in the tree!

Lac du Bois itself.                                     The Ballsam Root is still in bloom.

Chocolate Lily

The dogs are helping.

This is an old cabin at Griffin Lake

We drove to Pass Lake and then over to Isobel Lake where we walked all the way around on the interpretive trail. We drove home on the long Lake Road through the Eastern side of the grasslands.

Hike up Sunrise Mountain

On Sunday afternoon we hiked up part of Sunrise Mountain, from the Uplands trails , to do 2 geo caches. It was a very, long steep climb. The first cache we came to was Zilch, and from there we found a beautiful hidden valley with lots of tall grass and wild flowers. This led us to the Citius cache which was on a bluff over looking the valley. The views were spectacular. We chose a difficult , steep way to come down and would have been better backtracking a bit. We left our house at 3pm and made it home by 6:45 to watch the Lost finale. It was a great hile and we plan to go back sometime.

Looking east along the South Thompson River.

                   

                    Kamloops lake is in the distance looking west.

Sunday trip to Chase area

On Sunday we drove out towards Chase, on the other side of the river, to do some Geo caching and to find some rocks for our pond. The day was lovely, one of the first warm, almost summer like days we've had this year.

These pictures are from a cache in the hills above Pritchard on the north side of the river.  Martin Mountain is still snow covered in the background. The grasslands are really green right now and a lot of the flowers are over. The Balsam Root that normally covers these hills didn't do very well this year and is a lot smaller than normal.

The South Thompson river from the bridge at Pritchard. The river has come up a lot in the last few weeks, but still has a long way to go.

A view of Niskonlith lake near Chase, looking east. Some of the dead trees from the fire in 2003 can be seen in this picture.

My 20 minute sketch of the same view while Rick was looking at plants

An early bunch of Paintbrush flowers blooming in the shade and a single late Arnica flower. We also saw Penstemon, Lupine and Larkspur blooming.

Geocaching in March

These pictures are from geocaches in the Rosehill, Knutsford, Valleyview areas of Kamloops. The weather has been nice and warm but the hills are still brown.

It has been nice to get out so much with the mild winter.

Missy and Muffy are guarding the log book!

These are two strange carvings in the trees at the disc golf course in Rosehill.

February Geocaching

We did a lot of geocaching with Katie in February. We are up to 91 cache finds and Rick put out his first cache.

Geocaching with Katie on the last day of January

We spent some time with Katie geocaching around our area.

Geocaching Okanagan, Princeton

We made 3 trips to Penticton in January and did some caching along the way and on the way home.

This is the Luxor TB hotel.

New Years Day 2010

8- shaft Baby wolf

Shelley (Leclerc compact)

Leclerc Nilus

Lelerc 8- shaft Colonial

New Years Day loom pictures

Geocaching on Robbins Range

We didn't find a Stable cache but found something else.

Geocaching on Robbins Range Road. We didn't find all that we were looking for, but found 1 suprise. It was a really nice winter day with lots more snow than we thought there would be.