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Orofino Mountain Tour (4 lakes & a mine)

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Trail stats

Distance
51.69 mi
Elevation gain
8,481 ft
Technical difficulty
Difficult
Elevation loss
8,481 ft
Max elevation
4,826 ft
TrailRank 
73
Min elevation
1,811 ft
Trail type
Loop
Time
5 hours 55 minutes
Coordinates
5891
Uploaded
June 30, 2016
Recorded
June 2016

near Willowbrook, British Columbia (Canada)

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Itinerary description

This is a great network of trails all around Orofino mountain. This will take you past 4 separate lakes - Sawmill, Madden, Ripley, and Taylor. It will also take you to some of the Orofino mine areas. There is much more mining history to discover in the area but we began running out of time and didn't have time to map it.

Trail would be ranked moderate but on this route there was a couple very difficult hill climbs that shouldn't be attempted by novice riders.

Waypoints

PictographPanorama Altitude 3,060 ft
Photo ofView 1

View 1

View 1

PictographLake Altitude 3,411 ft
Photo ofView 2

View 2

View 2

PictographLake Altitude 3,091 ft
Photo ofRipley lake Photo ofRipley lake

Ripley lake

Ripley lake

PictographPanorama Altitude 3,071 ft
Photo ofOliver view Photo ofOliver view

Oliver view

Oliver view

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,887 ft
Photo ofMud hole

Mud hole

Mud hole

PictographLake Altitude 2,753 ft
Photo ofMadden lake

Madden lake

Madden lake

PictographCampsite Altitude 2,452 ft
Photo ofSawmill camping spot Photo ofSawmill camping spot Photo ofSawmill camping spot

Sawmill camping spot

Sawmill camping spot

PictographLake Altitude 2,390 ft
Photo ofSawmill lake Photo ofSawmill lake

Sawmill lake

Sawmill lake

PictographLake Altitude 4,704 ft
Photo ofTaylor Lake (bear lake) Photo ofTaylor Lake (bear lake) Photo ofTaylor Lake (bear lake)

Taylor Lake (bear lake)

Taylor Lake (bear lake)

PictographIntersection Altitude 2,847 ft
Photo ofGrand Oro Branch Rd Photo ofGrand Oro Branch Rd

Grand Oro Branch Rd

Grand Oro Branch Rd

PictographMine Altitude 4,190 ft
Photo ofGrand Oro Mine Photo ofGrand Oro Mine Photo ofGrand Oro Mine

Grand Oro Mine

Grand Oro Mine

PictographRuins Altitude 4,741 ft
Photo ofMining ruins

Mining ruins

Mining ruins

Photo ofOld mining cabin Photo ofOld mining cabin

Old mining cabin

Old mining cabin

Comments  (4)

  • Photo of JessicaRoss
    JessicaRoss Sep 27, 2016

    Lovely

  • Photo of Melissabrowett
    Melissabrowett Aug 1, 2018

    Do you think a Jeep could make it through any of the trails you guys took?

  • Photo of Paxx
    Paxx Aug 1, 2018

    I think most of the trails would be just fine. Not sure how overgrown some areas are though, as long as your fine with brush scratching the paint I think it’s all doable.

  • Photo of Melissabrowett
    Melissabrowett Aug 2, 2018

    Lots of pin striping already :)

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