KHC Newsletter – February 18, 2018
KHChirps
- Winter continues so most of our events are still snowshoeing in the hills. When it is snowing, driving the roads is sometimes an issue so members are reminded to check the event listing for updates. The start of the hiking season is not far away. In the last 6 years we have been hiking by the first week of March.
- Our thanks to the ongoing efforts of our hike leaders to post new events for our members.
- All members are invited to our AGM and Potluck Social on March 11. This is a great way to meet other members, to share stories, and to find out where we are going to be hiking, backpacking, paddling, and snowshoeing in 2018.
- KHC has been working with Kamloops Thompson Paddlers (TRIPS) in a joint venture to promote paddling, to offer paddling opportunities for members, and to expand our capacity as volunteer-driven clubs. Details are still being worked out, but with the paddling season about 6 weeks away, the first events are now being planned. Some of the TRIPS group will join KHC this spring. A new website is now started at http://kamloopspaddlers.net for anyone interested in additional canoeing, kayaking, or SUPing on our rivers and lakes.
- A good article from Backpacker Magazine –The Top 52 Hiker Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Featured Trail – Frederick Bluffs
- The header image is a photo taken by KHC member David Langevin of one his paintings, from a snowshoeing event at Bush Lake. For more of these images, go to davidlangevin.com
Some of Our Places:
- Tranquille – “The name of the Chief of the Indians who lived in this place in the 1830’s. Early records spell his name Sanquil. The name applied to the man, not the place. Usually the name is spelled Tranquil. The spelling Tranquille seems to have been introduced after 1870. Bancroft says the river was named after a Shuswap chief whose sauvity led French Canadians in the fur trade to call him Tranquille. However the name is shown on Archibald McDonald’s sketch of Thompson’s River District, 1827, and it seems possible that it was given to describe the quiet flow of the river, and that the chief took his name from the river. The chief died in 1841 and got notoriety in a peculiar way: his widow persuaded a young nephew to murder Samuel Black, HBC chief trader at Fort Kamloops, because he had scolded the chief shortly before his death and was suspected of having charmed his life away.” The name is given to the community of Tranquille, Tranquille Lake, Tranquille River ,and the Tranquille Ecological Preserve.
- Paul Lake – After the Indian chief Jean Baptiste Lolo, commonly known as “St. Paul.” The latter name was frequently shortened to Paul. Mt Paul had been labelled “Mount St. Paul” on Lieut. Mayne’s 1859 Sketch of Part of British Columbia, and on Geological Survey sheet 978, Southern Interior of British Columbia by G.M. Dawson, 1877. Labelled “Pauls Peak” on Geological Survey sheet 557, Kamloops by G.M. Dawson, 1895. “…Lolo….accompanied [Mayne] and an HBC man on their ride to the top of the mountain, ‘…which we christened Mount St. Paul…in honour of the old chief.’ (from Commander Mayne’s 1859 account: Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island).”
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painting and photo - David Langevin
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