We travelled to Clearwater, then north to Wells Gray Provincial Park.    We parked at the trailhead to Moul Falls, and then hiked for 3 hours, first down to Moul Falls, then over and down to McDiarmid Falls.    Most of the hike was through mixed forest in a wetter zone than the Kamloops area.    Along the way we stopped to enjoy various plants we spotted.    A few are shared here – Hooker’s fairybells (Disporum hookeri), Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolim sp.), false Solomon’s seal (Smilacena racemosa), wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), blue clematis (Clematis occidentalis sp. ), and ground-cedar (Lycopodium complanatum).

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fairybells

clematis

ground cedar

sasparilla

strawberry

fairybells

wintergreen

Oregon grape

false Solomon's seal

This is a hike I try to do every year, but alternating the seasons over time.

• Watch for a post on the hike on kamloopstrails.ca (May 23)
• Watch for a video on the hike on Youtube (about May 19)