Bikepacking 01: Okanagan Mountain Park

We had big plans on skis for this spring.  Many summits.  Much vertical.  Long story short, it didn't happen.  So we loaded up our bikes and hit a local park we hadn't explored before: Okanagan Mountain park.

We had been warned of overgrown trails, unmarked trails, unridable trails, bears, you name it.

There was a little bit of that, I guess, but mostly it was spectacular riding.

Some hills were a bit of a grunt.

We essentially circumnavigated the park through Wild Horse Canyon and then back over the KVR and down the Gillard FSR (an alternative descent would be through the Gillard trails, or Myra Bellevue).  Two days was very comfortable.  Counterclockwise was good - but if you wanted to avoid most of the pushing, I would recommend riding up Gillard and then clockwise through the park.