Paddling Lakes – Murtle Lake

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Murtle Lake is one of our favorite lakes to paddle, but its a more challenging journey to tackle.    It is the largest non-motorized lake in North America, but its also hard to get onto the lake.   We hope to return to kayak the lake in the upcoming year.

A new information page on Murtle Lake has been added to the website – Murtle Lake.   (click the link)

Pages on specific lakes include directions, access, launch area, paddling the lake, pros and cons of the lake, images, maps, and links for more information.

Some images taken by the author are shared here.    Click an image for a lightbox (larger) view and a caption.

 

 

More pages are being added each month.   More paddling lakes pages can be found here.

 

 

Paddling Lakes – White Lake and Cooney Bay (Kamloops Lake)

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This website has pages dedicated to individual lakes – directions, launch area, paddling the lakeshore, pros and cons, maps, and images.    Two more pages have been added recently for Cooney Bay access to Kamloops Lake and for paddling White Lake.    Links are provided below (click to see the pages): White Lake Cooney Bay – Kamloops Lake     … Continue reading →

Paddling Lakes – Neskonlith and Adams

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This website has a number of pages dedicated to specific paddling lakes in the area.    Many pages are available and more are added each month.    Each page has information on the lake, directions to get there, boat launch info, maps, images, pros and cons, and videos.    Over the winter months additional pages are added each year. Two … Continue reading →

Paddling Lakes – Pillar and Johnson Lakes

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Kamloops Trails features posts on kayaking the lakes and rivers of the area, but it also provides information on individual lakes and rivers.  Driving directions, road conditions, launch facilities and parking, paddling information, cautions, pros and cons, pictures, maps, and videos are provided on separate pages for each location.    Each page takes time so we are adding them one … Continue reading →

Mid-November on Jacko Lake

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Near the end of the 2024 paddling season, a day in mid-November featured mild temperatures and sunny skies.   The forecast had been for light winds early, then strong winds to develop by noon.     I loaded the boat early and drove to Jacko Lake.    I was on the water by 9:15.     there was one fisherman on the lake, … Continue reading →

On the River in November

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After many days of windy conditions, we finally had a calm day suitable for paddling.    In the first week of November I arrived at the Valleyview Boat Launch in the morning.    It was 2ºC.      It was all quiet at the launch for a paddle upriver on the South Thompson. I paddled past the Wanda Sue and … Continue reading →

Paddling Lakes- Edith and Nicola

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Over the winter season when paddling awaits ice-off in the spring, some pages of information on some of our area paddling lakes is added, from time to time.    Two new pages were recently added and links are provided here: Edith Lake Nicola Lake North   A list of lakes with dedicated pages can be found on the menu or … Continue reading →

On Shumway Lake

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Shumway Lake was established as a venue for watersport competition for the 1993 Canada Games.    Starting in 1990 ,we went through a process of looking at the lake as a site for rowing, canoeing, and water skiing.    There were some challenges – permission to use Crown land on the shoreline, highway egress, algae bloom in summer, the costs … Continue reading →

On White Lake

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On a cool morning in early October I drove east for 94 kms to White Lake Provincial Park.   There is a boat launch near the northwest corner of the lake, but I continued around the lake to the park and used that boat launch,  with a plan to paddle the eastern end of the lake.    The lake is about 12 … Continue reading →

Three Lakes

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With the change in seasons, the weather cools and we see more windy days.    We can paddle in the wind, but it is harder on larger lakes so we often choose to do loops on smaller lakes.    Any lake that sits in a forested bowl below a ring of hills has more protection from the wind.    This … Continue reading →

On Adams Lake

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  The Bush Creek Provincial Park site can be a busy spot in the summer, so I usually wait until September to kayak the south end of Adams Lake.    The road into the park is 4 km north from the end of the lake.    There is a nice campsite, a boat launch, a protected pebbly beach, and some bays to … Continue reading →

Campbell Lake Kayaking

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In early September I drove out the Scuitto Lake Road and continued on to the Campbell Lake Recreation Site.   When I went by Scuitto Lake I was surprised by how low the lake was.    Summer evaporation, drought, and summer draw down had reduced the lake size noticeably.    One of the boat launches was closed.    The boat launch … Continue reading →