August 15, 2014

I know! These hikes are out of order- but I am still experimenting and hopefully I will eventually have all the posts in order.

On August 15th, Trudy, Glenn, Jan and I hiked to Patt's resting place, where we met Amie, Sandy and the boyz.

We met at the Okanagan Club Golf course. There is a trail that goes to the campus of UBC Okanagan. Many UBC students reside in  condos that boundary hole # 1 of the Quail course. We parked at the dead end of the road at the end of the line of condos.

The trail to UBC starts at the end of the row of condos, but instead of walking to the campus, we turned right between the third and fourth holes of the Quail golf course. The well maintained and wide gravel trail meanders along the golf course, in a northerly direction, towards Vernon.

The trail ends in a residential area known as Quail Ridge, and you then walk through the residential area, and eventually come out onto a view of the golf course where the Quail and the Bear golf courses merge.

You are over looking hole #14 of the Quail, and we walked to the northern tip of the golf course, where the green for #14 is situated. We went through a gate in the fence and onto the dead end road that heads down to the cemetery, where we were headed to visit with Patt, on the 5th anniversary of her death.

It was a cloudy day, and it was spitting rain here and there- but we did not need umbrellas. The road to the cemetery meanders through horse ranches. Lots of horses wandering around the fields on both sides of the road. Very nice and quiet- no traffic.

There were a few hills- but nothing too strenuous.

We got to the cemetery after a 45 minute hike, and visited Mom and Dad's grave site, before meeting Amie, Sandy and the boyz at Patt's resting place (see photo).

We laid some flowers and had a visit with Patt, and then travelled to The Jammery where we met with Tom and Patti and enjoyed a nice meal.