Nov. 4 – Dry Hills
A hike on tracks and off-trail in the expansive sagebrush grasslands overlooking Kamloops Lake.
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Oct. 31 – Greenstone Mountain
A hike on trails on lower slopes on the northeastern end of Greenstone Mountain. Lots of all color.
Continue reading →Oct. 29 – Six Mile Lakes
A hike in the hills around the Six Mile Lakes through the sagebrush grasslands, past ponds, marshes, and lakes.
Continue reading →Oct. 25 – Around Lac du Bois
Oct. 24 – Adams River Trails Nature Hike
A hike on the Adams River Trails with spawning salmon, nice trails, fall vegetation, and fall colors.
Continue reading →Oct. 22 – Custer Lake Nature Hike
After a week of fighting a cold I got out for some garden work, but finally fit in a good 9.2 km hike in the backcountry east of Lac le Jeune. There were the usual fall seedheads and fading plants, but came across a cluster of Pinedrops too!
Continue reading →Oct. 16 – 17 – Garden Time
A cold has limited my time on the trails so I have been doing chores at home: sprinkler blowout fencepost repairs irrigation line expansion (for the spring) collecting and composting frost-damaged plants harvesting – potatoes, tomatoes, lifting bulbs (dahlias, etc.) collecting fallen leaves and spreading around perennials and shrubs (cold protection) general cleanup before winter and more…
Continue reading →Oct. 14 – 15 – Fall Gardening
Frost took out a number of plants so I spent a number of hours pulling out tomatoes, cosmos, nasturtium, cucumber, squash, dahlias, and others, chopped them up and moved them to the compost heap. Removed dahlia bulbs for winter storage, and buried some potted plants for overwintering.
Continue reading →Oct. 13 – Stony Lake Nature Hike
Oct. 12 – Native Gardens
With wind and rain we opted to walk around McArthur Island, but we lingered along the native garden sections of the loop route.
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