Hanging Valley Traditional Cache
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This site is a fairly level walk/hike into a back valley behind Lac
du Bois.
The Lac du Bois area was named by the fur traders in the 1830's.
Lac le Bois, as they named it, was the nearest source of
timber/lumber for building Thompsons River Post when it was rebuilt
on the North Side. They also used it as grazing land for their
horses because of the abundance of bunch grass all around the upper
grasslands, especially for over-wintering. When the Wheeler
Mountain School was built, a teacher (Alan Mathews) corrected the
spelling and the area was renamed Lac du Bois. A small sawmill
operation was in place at the lake, and settlers had begun to
homestead on the flank of Wheeler Mountain and around Lac du Bois.
The back valley was first settled by the Grahams who built a cabin
there in 1873. In succession, one of the Cooney boys ranched here
from 1895 to 1901, W.W. Arnold from 1901 to 1904, a Mr. Curwen from
1904 to 1919, and finally the Clappertons from 1919-1929.
Today we call this flat-bottomed valley between Mount Wheeler and
Opax Mountain Hanging Valley. This area has been used as range land
by the Frolek Cattle Company since the 1940's, but in an historic
agreement in 2009, the Froleks entered into an agreement with Parks
BC to include the grazing lands between Lac du Bois and McQueen
Lake and other pieces of property in the area as part of protected
lands attached to Lac du Bois Provincial park. Cattle will be still
be seasonally grazed in the area, but the public will also benefit
from the protection of the grasslands and will have access to the
hills and valleys of the area.
To get to Hanging Valley, park near Lac du Bois and then follow the
rough road on the north shore of the lake. The cache is placed at
the head of a broad sloping meadow at the junction of two routes.
The route heading west follows Hanging Valley to where it ends in a
drop off towards the Tranquille River (look for the Hidden Valley
Cache there). The route to the right climbs up the slope of Opax
Mountain (where a new cache will be placed soon).
The cache is hidden in an obvious spot near the junction.
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