Snowy Mountain Tours invites visitors to come walk the land in the Similkameen Valley and share in the Elders' wisdom on their 3 day guided overnight camping trip.
Dixon Terbasket and his guides will take you on a tour of the lake and share the history of the region.
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Dixon Terbasket knows these lands well and was instrumental in protecting 90,000 acres creating the largest protected area on the 49th parallel. Invaluable, too, are the gains made for an endangered herd of cariboo that cross the border here back and forth from Washington to British Columbia.
As the summer progresses the lake dries out, its mud forming into white, pale yellow, green and blue circles depending on its mineral composition. Known as Kliluk to the natives of the Okanagan Valley, the lake is a sacred and culturally significant site
whose potential for commercial exploitation recently generated much controversy.
The therapeutic quality of the waters has been known for millenia--the Osoyoos Chamber of Commerce website offers a legend wherein a truce was declared in a battle to allow both warring tribes to tend to their wounded in the lake.
This area supports the largest concentration of organic farms in BC with an abundance of the best tasting cherries, peaches, apricots and fresh vegetables. A fresh market paradise.
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