Crowfoot

[Quicksand]

Last year we did a 5 day trip in Sicamous and ended up driving to crowfoot for a day, loved it out there and said I had to go back and do some more exploring. So this year I booked a place out there for a 5 day trip in March. Just trying to gather as much info about the area as I can before we go, other riding areas nearby, places to eat, things to check out. Any input would be appreciated

 

[Bnorth]

crowfoot is either a love it or hate it area it seems, I find it isn't worth the drive especially since the users from Kamloops have grown exponentially in the last number of years. There are next to no services in the winter in the North Shuswap, I think the only food options besides the grocery store are the Hub and Ross Creek since the pub burned down. You can also ride Pukeashun (grizzly lodge area) from Scotch Creek. You can actually link CF to Lichen to Pokey. Have fun.

 

[Quicksand]

I figured it'd be pretty desolate out there, we will be mid week riding so hopefully the crowds are smaller. From what I seen last year I could probably spend a few days poking around crowfoot. Whats fly hills all about, more of a family area from what I'm finding?

It seems hard to find info on anything west of sicamous, or maybe I'm just not looking in the right spot. The snowblazers website says "These are fun days for us and are getting excited for the upcoming 2015/16 season!!" FML

 

[Bnorth]

Fly Hills and Spa Hills link together and are purely trail riding and a few meadows to bash if there's fresh snow. Great family area and really nice cabin. The updates are on their Snowblazers FB page. All the riding west of Sicamous is mellow other than Pukeashun until you get to the coast range or north of Kamloops to Barriere. There's some other riding in the North Shuswap you may want to PM team dirt on here for info.

 

[RobertL]

I’ve really enjoyed the Crowfoot area the two times I’ve been up there. Rode Fly Hills for a couple hours on Christmas Eve this year and my daughter and I were the only ones out there. Was definitely mostly trail riding but a lot of linking trails aren’t groomed so there was lots of untracked snow when we were there. Nice thing is that it is only 10 mins out of SA.

 

[team dirt]

Last year we did a 5 day trip in Sicamous and ended up driving to crowfoot for a day, loved it out there and said I had to go back and do some more exploring. So this year I booked a place out there for a 5 day trip in March. Just trying to gather as much info about the area as I can before we go, other riding areas nearby, places to eat, things to check out. Any input would be appreciated

If weathers good you can easily do a huge ride from crowfoot to lichen and hit grizzly lodge for a ceaser then come back over pokey back to crowfoot. Pack fuel. When are you going? If I’m in the area I could maybe tour you around some zones.

 

[Quicksand]

If weathers good you can easily do a huge ride from crowfoot to lichen and hit grizzly lodge for a ceaser then come back over pokey back to crowfoot. Pack fuel. When are you going? If I’m in the area I could maybe tour you around some zones.

See now that sounds like a good day! I'd love to do that one sometime.

We're headed out Mar. 4-8, unfortunately for the sake of your sanity I'll have to catch you for that ride another time, we've got 10 sleds going and a couple newer riders with us, so that'd be a siht show I'm sure. We've got a couple guys with us that know crowfoot pretty good so we should be alright but thanks for the offer for sure. \

By chance can you drop a pin on a map of where the mobley fire lookout and grizzly lodge are? I think I found the lookout on the map but not sure. Grizzly I have no idea.

 

[steveo10]

crowfoot is either a love it or hate it area it seems, I find it isn't worth the drive especially since the users from Kamloops have grown exponentially in the last number of years. There are next to no services in the winter in the North Shuswap, I think the only food options besides the grocery store are the Hub and Ross Creek since the pub burned down. You can also ride Pukeashun (grizzly lodge area) from Scotch Creek. You can actually link CF to Lichen to Pokey. Have fun.

Ya a few years back we were riding Pukeashun and were back a few bowls, then suddenly we heard sleds coming towards us. We were like where did they come from, there’s no tracks in front of us. They stopped and talked to us and said they came from crowfoot. We sure weren’t expecting that, it was the first group we seen in 2 days

 

[team dirt]

There ya go. It’s super easy to get to from the main crowfoot cabin if it’s not cloudy.

See now that sounds like a good day! I'd love to do that one sometime.

We're headed out Mar. 4-8, unfortunately for the sake of your sanity I'll have to catch you for that ride another time, we've got 10 sleds going and a couple newer riders with us, so that'd be a siht show I'm sure. We've got a couple guys with us that know crowfoot pretty good so we should be alright but thanks for the offer for sure. \

By chance can you drop a pin on a map of where the mobley fire lookout and grizzly lodge are? I think I found the lookout on the map but not sure. Grizzly I have no idea.

I will see if I can make something for you.

 

[broke'n'nuts]

If weathers good you can easily do a huge ride from crowfoot to lichen and hit grizzly lodge for a ceaser then come back over pokey back to crowfoot. Pack fuel. When are you going? If I’m in the area I could maybe tour you around some zones.

Dam, didn't think that was possible as that powerline in the valley you would have to cross would be low in elevation for snow levels. Limited window season wise to do this? You cross powerline north of Mobley or south from main chalet? Thanks

 

[team dirt]

Dam, didn't think that was possible as that powerline in the valley you would have to cross would be low in elevation for snow levels. Limited window season wise to do this? You cross powerline north of Mobley or south from main chalet? Thanks

Straight north from grizzly cabin along Fowler. That valley holds snow till May back there but you don’t actually follow the power line very far before climbing back up to elevation.

 

[team dirt]

Straight north from grizzly cabin along Fowler. That valley holds snow till May back there but you don’t actually follow the power line very far before climbing back up to elevation.

One thing to be cautious about though is if there’s logging up the blueberry from the Seymour main then the link from crowfoot to either lichen and pokey will be on plowed road. I know there not logging this year but the last few the roads have been plowed. Here’s a link to my Instagram from a ride 2 years ago over pokey and back on lichen. To link in crowfoot is only about 12km of road from where we parked. As you can see in early April there is still a ton of snow back in that valley. We are almost parked under the power line at this spot.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhHK9LPBje5/?igshid=auh1doilb1dn

 

[Bnorth]

No logging up the blueberry this winter, camp is closed.

 

[RobertL]

Anyone been up on Crowfoot yet?

 

[Jorgy]

Definitely some tracks in the webcam when I looked this morning

 

[Sessionsdoo]

Anyone riding Crow Friday or saturday? Mind someone to tag along?

 

[altaredneck]

Just wondering conditions there looks like rain so maybe snow up top next week just wondering if it’s worth going out there thx

 

[getzcold]

Was there on the weekend it’s seen lots of traffic but the snow pack was high up top. Was parking in the main lot but I’d imagine be parking in the upper lot by this weekend

 

[Sessionsdoo]

Was there on the weekend it’s seen lots of traffic but the snow pack was high up top. Was parking in the main lot but I’d imagine be parking in the upper lot by this weekend

Im headed there saturday, how patchy was the trail up? Hoping they have moved up a couple parking lots.

 

[getzcold]

There was a little brown snow at the very first little switch back right close to the parking lot and little dirt at the entrance to the sheep trail. We dropped down and over to poky the valley bottom probably has a couple weeks left as it looks they plowed it earlier in the year. The trails were mint. The groomer went all the way to grizzly drop. The club there always does a great job on there trails over there.