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DARKEST1 is the author of 9 posts.
camping with NO bugs!
Most people love camping, but everyone who does hates the bugs. We found the best way to go camping and avoid the bugs is…. go in winter. Clayton has posted some great stuff of the site about sleeping in quinzees (maybe i spelled it wrong), but we usually sleep in a tent. Due to our [...]
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cougar canyon in okanagan
i know cougar canyon is a sweet hike from kalmalka lake park, but i have seen some maps that show a trail strating in oyama and continuing through the canyon and reaching into Kal lake park. can anyone verify if this trail still exists?? It is shown in the okanagan backroads map books, and eluded [...]
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Tags: Okanagan
some okanagan fsr trips
About 6 months ago I bought a very used ’91 4runner. The main reason was to shuttle bikes up some of our favourite okanagn runs, but its become somewhat of an adventure mobile as well. It’s been exploring all over the okanagan. But this is not a toyota ad, its about some of the roads [...]
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Tags: Backcountry, Forest Service Road, FSR
A surprising nature hike in Cuba
Posted in Cuba, Hiking Trails
A touristy place like Varadero, Cuba, didn’t seem like a likely place to have some kinda of crazy hiking adventure. The miles of white sand beaches and resort after resort seemed to indicate most people where not here to get dirty and bitten by bugs. It seemed doomed to be a relaxing weekend of suntanning [...]
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Tags: cuba
Yufu-Dake in Oita, Japan
Posted in Hiking Trails, Japan
Yufu dake, aka Bungo-fuji or Hakufu-dake is in the prefecture of Oita, Japan, in the north-eastern part of Kyushu, the southern main island of Japan. The closest stop on the JR line is in Yufuin. Take a bus or taxi from there. The approach give you a good long look at the mountain’s twin peaks. [...]
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Iceland Vatnajökull national park and Landmannalaugar
Posted in Iceland
Imagine a country that defines the term “backcountry” and you have Iceland. The main highway pretty much requires a 4×4. Water crossings a frequent, even on the main road circling the island, and pavement is reserved only for the capital city of Reykjavík. I spent 3 weeks in Iceland in August, and weather-wise, it could [...]
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Tags: glaciers, Hiking, Iceland, travel, Volcano, waterfalls
graystokes…as self guided as it gets
Posted in Free Camping, Graystokes Provincial Park
When i recruited people to venture into greystokes provincial park, everyone always asked “where the heck is that?”. Weird, considering it’s only 60km from kelowna. It’s pretty much inaccessible without a truck, quad or snowmobile, but once there, there is some pretty cool stuff. The main center of the park is greystokes lake, which is [...]
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Tags: alpine, alpine lake, cabin, cool stuff, day trip, Free Camping, FSR, GPS Track, Graystokes, greystokes, Hiking, hiking trail, Hiking Trails, hilton, jubilee mountain, Kelowna, mountain bike, Provincial Park, rock crawler, snowmobile destination, winter camping
mabel lake. close enough, but far enough too.
Last summer my wife and I needed a little get away. We had heard about Mable Lake, just north of Lumby. We went on the Thursday before a long weekend, but the campground was so full it could have been the Saturday of a long weekend. In fact, the campground was full. Totally. We were [...]
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Tags: Camping, Lumby, Mabel Lake
