From Lodgepole Lake we snowshoed known tracks/routes, combined together for a 2+ hour loop. The routes are a combination of user tracks, motorcycle trails, marshes, and forest service branch roads. We encountered a few new fallen trees across the routes, but we just created go-around tracks. For anyone out to find a good snowshoe route, its best just to follow …Continue reading…
There are a number of snowshoe routes that start at Lodgepole Lake. Various shorter loops can be combined for a day in the snowy forests. A longer route has been developed over many years of exploration. It connects a series of ponds, lakes, streambeds, double tracks, and established single tracks, all in the Walloper Creek drainage area, but the route …Continue reading…
In winter the Lodgepole Lake FSR is kept plowed to the Rec Site on Lodgepole Lake at 1339m (4721 feet). This is a good spot to venture out for winter snowshoeing, using logging roads and access tracks to cutblocks, skid tracks, marshes and ponds, OHV trails, and open cutblocks, linked together to create a loop route. Other snowshoers may have …Continue reading…
There are a number of snowshoe routes starting at Lodgepole Lake. The road is usually plowed right to the Rec Site at the end of the lake. Users stomp in tracks around the lake and through the forest in the area between hills. Longer routes can also be stomped in and various loops are possible. On the first day of …Continue reading…
On a smoky day I drove up to the Stake Lake in hopes of getting high enough to have better air quality. Even at 1416m, Lodgepole Lake was smoky so I paddled one loop around the lake then came down to McConnell Lake for some additional mileage. The launch had some fishermen, dog walkers, hikers, runners, and some paddlers, but …Continue reading…