Trip Reports

Okanagan and Thompson

Trip reports and GPS traces by objective for Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton, and the Okanagan ranges.

90 objectives indexed from 7 blogs, 25 of them with reports from more than one.

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Each entry links every trip report, video, or GPS trace the indexed blogs published for that objective. Hover a link to see the report’s own title, which is how combined trips and traverses show what else they cover.

Where an objective is on one of the four tick-lists, that is marked after the links: Kane and Nugara for scrambles and Don’t Waste Your Time for hikes, each carrying the book’s own grade, and the 11,000ers carrying the peak’s elevation. None of the three books is published online, and the 11,000ers is not a book at all, so every mark links to Adam Laycock’s page for that objective, which is the best canonical reference there is for one. Where there is a book, the route description is in it.

The line under each entry says who puts it where. Where the sources agree, that is one region with several names. Where they disagree, the objective is listed on every region page named, and the line links the others: the blogs file Bow Peak under both Banff and the Icefields Parkway, so it is on both pages.

A region marked inferred is not stated by any blog. It was worked out from where the blogs place the objectives around it: those climbed in the same trip, those a report links to, those near its trailhead, or those near where its name is on the map. Checked against objectives the blogs do place, these are right about nine times in ten, so treat one as a pointer rather than a fact. One marked weakly inferred rests on thinner or split evidence — a single linked report, a trailhead between two regions — and is only used where nothing else places the objective, so it may be listed under each region it could be in. Place-name positions are from the Canadian Geographical Names Database, under the Open Government Licence – Canada, and south of the border from the USGS Geographic Names Information System.

A

Anvil Peak — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Apex Mountain — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song
Arrowstone Hills — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song

B

Baldy Mountain — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Batchelor Hill — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Battle Bluff — Bob Spirko, Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Bob Spirko, Steven Song
Beacon Hill — Bob Spirko
- Okanagan and Thompson: Bob Spirko
Beaconsfield Mountain — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Big White Mountain — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Black Knight Mountain — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Blue Grouse Mountain — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou
Blue Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Borg Peak — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Buse Hill — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map

C

Cedar Mountain — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou
Chuwhels Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Coal Hill — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Cornwall Hills — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Crater Mountain — Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
Cringe Peak — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Crying Peak — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Culmination Point Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song

D

Dufferin Hill — Bob Spirko, Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Bob Spirko, Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

E

Elephant Hill — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Ellison to Winfield via the Okanagan Rail Trail — Explor8ion
- Okanagan and Thompson: set by hand
Embleton Mountain — Bob Spirko, Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles
Estekwalan Mountain — Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles; inferred from where the name is on the map

G

Giant’s Head — Steven Song, On-Top
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from On-Top’s trailhead; inferred from where the name is on the map
Gibraltar Rock — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Goat Peak — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou

I

Iron Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Ironmask Hill — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

K

Knox Mountain — On-Top
- Okanagan and Thompson: inferred from On-Top’s trailhead

L

Larch Hills Lookout — On-Top
- Okanagan and Thompson: weakly inferred from On-Top’s trailhead · Shuswap and the Monashees: weakly inferred from On-Top’s trailhead
Little White Mountain — Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles

M

Mara Hill — Bob Spirko
- Okanagan and Thompson: Bob Spirko; inferred from where the name is on the map
Morton Peak — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song · Shuswap and the Monashees: Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
Mount Armour — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Mount Bob — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Boucherie — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Buse — Bob Spirko
- Okanagan and Thompson: Bob Spirko
Mount Campbell — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Mount Conkle — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Dilworth — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Drought — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Fleet — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Hamilton — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Mount Harper — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Hawthorne — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Keogan — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Knox — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Kobau — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Kruger — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Mount Laidlaw — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Law — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou
Mount Lolo — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song
Mount Mabel — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song · Shuswap and the Monashees: Golden Scrambles
Mount Martin — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount McInnes — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Mount Middleton — On-Top
- Okanagan and Thompson: inferred from On-Top’s trailhead; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Munson — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Nicola — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Mount Nkwala — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Parker — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song, Sonny Bou
Mount Riordan — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Rose — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Mount Savona — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Tod — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Mount Wheeler — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou

N

Nicoelton Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song

O

Okanagan Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

P

Peak 1431 — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Peak 1495 “Stinking Lake Ridge” — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Peak 881 — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Pennask Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Peter Peak — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Pincushion Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
Promontory Hills — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song

R

Red Mountain — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles, Andrew Nugara
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles · Sea to Sky and the Coast Mountains: Steven Song
Rockface Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

S

Silver Star Mountain — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song
Silwhoiakun Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song
Snowy Mountain — Golden Scrambles
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles
Spion Kop — On-Top
- Okanagan and Thompson: inferred from On-Top’s trailhead
Sugarloaf Hill — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
Sunrise Mountain — Bob Spirko
- Okanagan and Thompson: Bob Spirko

T

Terrace Mountain — Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
Tuktakamin Mountain — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map

V

Vernon Hill — Sonny Bou
- Okanagan and Thompson: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map

W

Wild Horse Mountain — Steven Song
- Okanagan and Thompson: Steven Song

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