Jo-Jo Lake

A Spring Hike

By Jozien Keijzer / 26 June 2013 / 3 minutes of reading

I have been on several day hikes this spring, and spring was very marginal this year. Winter just didn’t want to let go. On the day of my last hike there were flurries and cool temperatures forecast everywhere in the territory. We aimed to climb Stony Creek, but as the Johnsons, a gold mining family …

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Along the Jo-Jo Lake Trail

By Jozien Keijzer / 13 November 2012 / 4 minutes of reading

The history of the Jo-Jo Lake trail goes a long way back, as the people of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations can tell you. “It’s been a horse trail for hunting forever, since way before my time,” 95-year-old Alex Van Bibber tells me. According to the highly-respected elder and outdoorsman, there is an outfitter …

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