The hot springs and trails event. July 5 - July 8 2025

[Chris]

A summer of hot springs:

Day 1 is July 5th, we will be back July 8th.

we will hit 3, possibly 4 different hot springs with 1 being a resort. I have added times, however add an
hour or so to each one to account for fuel stops, food stops and weighed down Land
Rover speed.
The trip up Rady creek is not the most difficult, however there is some pinstriping, any
Land Rover on AT tires can do this trail.  Grey creek pass can be bumpy, so airing down will make this more tolerable.
on day 4, if we do koko claims, it'll be similar in difficulty to Rady creek. The FSRs up to highway 93 is well groomed, we can make a game day decision on this one.
Most of these hot springs will make us smell like Sulfur, I do have a shower awning, so
anyone bringing kids can get them showered and cleaned, or yourselves.  I'll bring extra water
and propane for the heated shower. Though we can always get water from a clean lake for
shower water too.
By all means this is a family friendly trip, bring the kids, grandkids, bring non landrover
friends in their overlanders too!!
Theres ton of youtube videos on koko claims and Rady creek, have a look so you know what
the trails look like.

Day 1. Edmonton to canyon hot springs 6.5hrs. Camping near revelstoke. (we will meet the
calgary crew in the town of field on highway 1)

Day 2. From Revelstoke we head south on 23 to halfway hot springs. 2.5hrs. Camping at
Rady creek, what a view this will be, trust me.

Day 3. Leave Rady creek, head south to Balfour, ferry crossing to Crawford bay, head across
grey creek pass towards Kimberly. head north from Kimberly to Lussier hot springs. 6hrs.
Camping will be east of Lussier, there's a provincial park campground, I believe you need
cash for this site, might on the honor system, I'll look into this before we leave.

Day 4. From this point we have two options. A: cross Koko claims to Elkford and home. B:
head north across various FSRs until we hit highway 93 and end up at lake Louise to head
home.

Please try to confirm before the end of June, let me if you have any friends bringing their overlanders so I have a number of vehicles coming!!

[Red90]

Put me down. One truck, two three people.

[Chris]

got yeah down!!

[Chris]

So far we have 3 confirmed (2LRs 1 jeep) and a possible 4th.
Itll be a great trip! Nothing too complicated, great views and natural hot springs!

[binch]

I'll likely be joining the trip in my 110👍

[Chris]

Sounds great Bill!
So far we are at:

3 Land Rovers, 1 jeep, 1 toyota(maybe)

Two of us are pretty camera heavy, so there will be lots of footage for this trip, even some Drone footage is coming! 😉

[Chris]

After speaking with some locals, it appears its too early for Rady creek, so I will have a revised schedule by the end of the week.
If anyone knows of an overland route in that area to get from highway 6 south of shelterbay to highway 31 in the direction of Belfour, let me know. I'll look into it myself over the week.

[Red90]

Not really but after Halfway you could take the FSR through Wilson Lake - Beaver Lake - Wilson Creek Falls for a bit more scenery.  Just east of Nakusp. Can always then stop in at Sandon and Cody for some historical tourism.

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[Chris]

sounds good to me! ill check them out!

[binch]

I'm looking forward to this trip.....sounds like fun!

[JohnnyO]

Hi Chris, Put me down as a maybe.  I'm watching these dates closely and if I can sneak away from work I'd love to join the group.  I'll be able to let you know a couple of days before leaving.

[Chris]

sounds great !!

[Chris]

as per above, the adjustment will be as follow.
instead of heading up over the east side of trout lake to hit rady FSR, due to snow, we will head down the west side, check out halfway hotsprings, head south to naksup, make a game day decision on seeing naksup hot springs or moving forward to wilson lake fsr, we will travel along there, i hear its a beautiful area. this will connect us back to the highway in which we will end up going east to kaslo, again, another game day decision based on time if we head up buchanan fire lookout. afterwards continue on our route acrosss the ferry and cross grey creek pass. which I was made aware this week, is now open!!

let me know if you have any questions or ideas.

currently we are at

4 LRS, 1 jeep, 1 toyota (maybe)

[binch]

This is sounding like a great trip so far.   Looking forward to it👍👍👍

[Def110]

Hi Gang,

Your Kelowna rep here. I've only been on one day trip with you guys and that was because I was in Banff couple of years ago when you had day outing west of Calgary.

What time do you expect to be at Halfway River Hot Springs. I could meet you there or if I miss you can meet at Rady Creek.

Did I see someone post that a Toyota might be coming? I wouldn't ask but my buddy has a forerunner and loves Hot Springs. let me know if that's cool to have a Toyota if not, I'll just send him pics like I normally do lol.