Kamloops Kayak has many posts, but there are also 142 videos on YouTube. Embedded here is one video with a link to the others in the Playlist Library:
Here is a link to the Playlist on the Ramble On Channel – Kamloops Kayak.
Paddling Lakes – Mahood Lake
Kamloops Kayak has a number of pages, each specific to a particular lake in our area. New pages are added over the winter months with information on directions, campsite, launch, paddling the lake, pros and cons, maps, images, and a video. The latest page is on Mahood Lake (click the link): Mahood Lake Although this is … Continue reading →
Paddling Lakes – Murtle Lake
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 … Continue reading →
Paddling Lakes – White Lake and Cooney Bay (Kamloops Lake)
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
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
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
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
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
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 →
Kayaking White Lake
I kayaked white Lake in the Shuswap Area in October on a greyish morning. A Youtube video is now published on this outing: Still kayaking, but the end of the season is near.
Continue reading →On Shumway Lake
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 Lac le Jeune in October
As the paddling season winds down, I look for calm and mild days to get out for a morning paddle on local lake or on one of the rivers. I had only paddled once on Lac le Jeune so at the end of the first week of October, I launched my kayak onto the lake on a morning with … Continue reading →
On White Lake
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 →
On Pillar Lake
On Edith in the Wind
Three Lakes
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 →