It is colourful: yellow skunk cabbage, rusty brown mining artifacts, black bears, green vegetation anomalies, white snow and blue skies. A historical/geological adventure.
Difficulty: easy to moderate.
Time: 4 hours.
Drive. Meet in front of the bakery at the Kootenay Lake ferry landing in Balfour
Trail. If the water in Cedar Creek is low, we will visit the 1893 bullwheel from the Highland silver/lead/zinc mine – this can add 1.5 hours to the trip and requires crossing Cedar Creek by wading or butt-cracking on a log.
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