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	Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management - Resource Management Division
		Kinbasket Lake has considerable variation in water level due to its function as a reservoir for the Mica Dam.
		Kinbasket Lake is the only large lake in the Robson Valley Forest District and is an attraction for anglers.
		The lake is known class A fish habitat, along with Ptarmigan and Hugh Allan Creeks and the lower stretches of Yellowjacket, Dawson and Harvey Creeks.
	srmwww.gov.bc.ca /rmd/lrmp/robson/ekinb.htm (2108 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of Canadian lakes
		Contwoyto Lake in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
		Kasba Lake in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
		Selwyn Lake in the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_Canadian_lakes (281 words)

	Kinbasket Lake Resort
		Kinbasket Lake Resort is a RV campground with cabins and bed & breakfast located at the mouth of the Beaver River and beautiful Kinbasket Lake in British Columbia, Canada.
		Kinbasket Lake is 214 kilometers long and is perfect for fishing.
		Kinbasket Lake Resort offers rental fishing boats and a fishing guide for your convenience or you may bring your own boat for endless water exploration.
	gateway.cotr.bc.ca /Golden/KinbasketL.asp (108 words)

	Columbia River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Columbia Lake forms the Columbia's headwaters in the Canadian Rockies of southern British Columbia.
		The river then flows through Windermere Lake and the town of Invermere, then northwest to Golden and into Kinbasket Lake.
		Water draining from the lake forms the Pend Oreille River, which flows across the Idaho panhandle to Washington's northeastern corner where it meets the northern Canadian fork.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Columbia_River (1464 words)

	Where is Chatter Creek
		Kinbasket Lake and the Columbia River Trench can be seen to the west.
		Part of the Columbia River, Kinbasket Lake, to the west of Chatter Creek, is formed by the Mica Dam hydroelectric power project, far to the north.
		The extension of Kinbasket Lake to the east is Bush Arm, the outflow of the Bush River.
	where-is-chatter-creek.blogspot.com (1653 words)

	British Columbia provincial highway 23 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its section north of Revelstoke is the western part of the original routing of Highway 1 along the Columbia River prior to its re-alignment through Rogers Pass, and it is the main access to the Mica Dam facility on Kinbasket Lake, which is actually a reservoir of Mica Dam.
		Its southern part provides an early connection to the heart of the Okanagan region of the province for travellers on the Trans-Canada westbound from Calgary.
		A ferry vessel carries Highway 23 across the Upper Arrow Lake to a location known as Shelter Bay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_provincial_highway_23 (335 words)

	B.C. Forest Service Research Branch
		The northern portion of the forest district, from Mica Creek south to Revelstoke and east to the slopes above Kinbasket Lake and to Beaver River is located in the Northern Columbia Mountains ecosection.
		The Central Park Ranges Ecosection (CPK) extends from Mount Laussedat in the south to Hugh Allen Creek valley in the north, and from the shores of Kinbasket reservoir in the west to the North Saskatchewan River valley in Alberta in the east.
		With the exception of the alpine tundra, parklands, the ICHmw3 subzone in the south around Upper Arrow Lake, and the area around Golden and the Spillimacheen River, the study area is classified as a natural disturbance type 1, that is ecosystems with rare stand-initiating events.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /hre/LACH/land/lachm01.htm (5706 words)

	RV Campground Cabins Bed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kinbasket Lake Resort is also surrounded by beautiful scenery.
		Kinbasket Lake Resort has a wide variety of animals and many different kinds of birds.
		Whether you are fishing for the king of all fish, or hiking in the mountains for that glimpse of a moose, or even relaxing at the end of the day around a campfire, let Kinbasket Lake Resort be part of those memories of beautiful British Columbia, Canada.
	www.kinbasketresort.com /activities.htm (288 words)

	Powder Heaven > "Mica Heli Guides - Private Tours (2, 3, or 4 days)" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lake effect snows from the reservoir usually drop the champagne powder that floats on top of the deep snowpack from the Pacific storms.
		Each valley is unique in character, ranging from the Kinbasket Valley with its 3,000 vertical extreme glacier faces to the Dawson Valley face which drops 5,000 feet at a mellow cruising 35 degrees.
		The new million dollar Mica Lodge is located on the west coast of the Kinbasket Lake, so close to the action that it is accessible exclusively by helicopter.
	www.powderheaven.com /html/100-198.html (849 words)

	Halcyon Days: Launch
		These lakes were created by BCHydro (with a healthy dollop of US money) to regulate the water of the Columbia River for power generation.
		A "draw-down" lake is a storage pond, and if the water is needed lower down the river, any and all the water is released.
		Lake Kinbasbet is a draw-down reservoir, and in the winter it is virtually dry (we talked with folks who snowmobile through the Kinbasket Basin for trapping in the winter - they said it is virtually the original Columbia River flowing along a channel in a mud-filled hollow.)
	www.geocities.com /bill_fiero/colrevel.htm (2087 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Fall 2004 - Briefings
		A three-ton robot armed with a chain saw is loose beneath the placid surface of Lois Lake, a reservoir 10 miles southeast of Powell River on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
		The contrast is starkly visible on Lois Lake, where the surrounding mountain slopes are disfigured by logging operations.
		Craftsmen especially crave this vintage wood, most of which is between 100 and 500 years old, because it is essentially the same age and color and has the same grain as that used by artisans in earlier centuries to create pieces we consider fine antiques today.
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/04fal/briefings3.asp (807 words)

	New interpretive centre puts Ktunaxa culture front and centre
		Housing the interpretative centre in the guts of the renovated residential school, formerly known as the Kootenay Indian Residential School, is not without problems because many children suffered at the hands of the institution's caretakers.
		Hunter was one of a number of people who worked on a summer project in 1985, which established a museum in the old residential school's chapel.
		Lake City casinos are already on board as a Golden Eagle sponsor (donations of $25,000 or more).
	www.kahtou.com /images/townsman.html (1059 words)

	Recreation Sites in the Columbia Forest District
		A multi season boatlaunch on Lake Kinbasket, fluctuating water levels.
		A small campsite on Lake Kinbasket, fluctuating water levels.
		The walk in campsite (1 km) is on a small secluded lake for tenters.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /dco/sites/sites.htm (663 words)

	Canal Flats, British Columbia, Canada
		Canal Flats sits 1 kilometre from the southern end of the 16-kilometre long Columbia Lake, the source of the Columbia River that flows north to Kinbasket Lake before turning south to finally empty into the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon, a journey of 1,225 miles (1,960 kms).
		Columbia Lake lies squeezed between two walls of rock; the Purcell Mountains to the west and the Rocky Mountains to the east.
		Abundant fish populations of Whiteswan and Alces Lakes, both wholly in Whiteswan Lake Provincial Park, led to the establishment of this semi-wilderness park.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /regions/towns?townID=4017 (1511 words)

	BC Hydro - Info - Columbia
		The 12 MW Elko generating station is located on the Elk River, approximately 26 kilometres from its mouth on Lake Koocanusa.
		The 4 MW Spillimacheen generating station is on the Spillimacheen River, a tributary of the Columbia River upstream from Kinbasket Lake.
		The 8 MW Walter Hardman generating station is located on the shore of Arrow Lake.
	www.bchydro.com /info/system/system15276.html (501 words)

	Last ride of the season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Once we reached what is commonly known as the sub alpine we rode 25 kms to the end of Frisby Ridge.
		The trail end is clearly marked and the view out into the mountains and Kinbasket Lake are spectacular.
		View of Kinbasket Lake or Kinbasket reservoir which is the large body of water contained by the Revelstoke Dam.
	www.snoriderswest.com /features/april_05/last_ride.htm (413 words)

	Flight to Chatter Creek
		In clear weather, the flight path rises as it approaches the Lake, continues straight across Bush Arm and over the high ridges that separate Chatter Creek from the Columbia Valley.
		The lake is formed by Mica Dam,, far to the north.
		Kinbasket Lake lies in the Rocky Mountain Trench, a linear system of valleys that extends for approximately 1600 km from northern Montana to the B.C.-Yukon border.
	flight-to-chatter-creek.blogspot.com (1662 words)

	Chatter News: July 2005
		Vertebrae Ridge is to the right of the valley and the Kitchen Range is to the left, between the valley and Kinbasket Lake.
		The Chatter Creek cat skiing tenure lies between Vertebrae Ridge, on the east, and Kinbasket Lake, on the west.
		Kinbasket Lake, at the left of the image, lies in the Columbia River trench, about 90 km north of Golden BC.
	powder-skiing.blogspot.com /2005_07_01_powder-skiing_archive.html (1371 words)

	Mica Heli Guides - Heli Skiing BC - Heli Snowboarding - Heli Touring - Canada Helicopter Skiing - Fishing
		The luxury log lodge was constructed 2500 feet above Kinbasket Lake, formerly known as McNaughton Lake, with panoramic vistas of the Monashee and Selkirk Mountain Ranges.
		The legendary precipitation in and around Kinbasket Lake provides moderate snowfalls on a regular basis.
		Dan McDonald is president of Mica Heli Guides and was the founder of Island Lake Lodge, which is now the world's most premier cat-skiing destination.
	www.micaheli.com /html/releases/11.24.03.html (500 words)

	Voyage to the Pacific - Part 3
		At the resort, LaFont and Leslie crossed a muddy 300-yard portage to the water.
		The safe thing was to paddle close to shore and be prepared to get off the lake very quickly.
		Kinbasket Lake reminded Leslie less of a sponge than of an enormous tub with multiple spigots.
	www.bpa.gov /power/pl/Columbia/Stories/voyage3.htm (572 words)

	July 13th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, by 11 the rain stopped so I biked (first time!) to Lake Louise (60km); I saw 1 bear and 1 moose and was very friendly received at the YHI which looks very Austrian (hotel-like); $21/night.
		95km to Kinbasket Lake (camp); we passed through Golden (picture of the car show); we couldn't find Blaeberry...; the road from Golden is mostly uphill as it goes towards the pass (7%).
		On my way down I took several pictures and continued on some really backside roads until I reached Fairholm Camp on the Crescent Lake; the road on the shores of the Lake is extremely narrow and requires lots of attention.
	homepage.mac.com /rfrumosu/cyclingchapter/pacific1999/bike1999diary.htm (4151 words)

	Boating British Columbia's Shuswap and Thompson Nicola
		Shuswap Lake is one of the most popular boating spots in British Columbia.
		Shuswap Lake, with its four arms is a haven for boating, water skiing, fishing, swimming, sunbathing, and houseboating.
		Serving as the hub of the region is Salmon Arm, situated on the shores of the Salmon Arm of the Shuswap.
	www.fishbc.com /adventure/boating/high_country/hilrglk.htm (651 words)

	Photography by Dan Santillo
		Kinbasket Lake is downstream of a hydroelectric power station.
		There were some people camping on the lake shore.
		After eating, Dan wandered off on his own with his tripod and camera to take some photos from the lake shore in the twilight.
	www.dansantillo.com /travel/canada2003/index.php?day=14 (1896 words)

	The COLUMBIA RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
		With the Rocky Mountains to the east, the Purcell Range of the Columbia Mountains to the west, on its northerly route, the Columbia makes an abrupt turn at Kinbasket Lake near the northern edge of the Selkirk Mountains.
		At the northern reaches of the Columbia River, in the Kinbasket Reservoirs, provincial fisheries managers added 366,000 kokanee fry and 257,000 eggs between 1982 and 1985.
		The internationally significant wetlands run for 160 kilometres from Canal Flats south of Columbia Lake northwest to Donald, a land of cottonwood, aspen, willow and white spruce in a continuous wetland system of bulrush swamps, shallow lakes and sedge meadows.
	www.greatcanadianrivers.com /rivers/columbia/species-home.html (893 words)

	Canadian Ski Operator Expands Snowcat Terrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Or, imagine a ski area that is twice the size of Whistler/Blackcomb, Heavenly, Vail, Squaw Valley, Mammoth and Lake Louise combined.
		It extends almost to the shore of Kinbasket Lake.
		To the south, it extends to Bush Arm and, in the north it extends beyond the Chatter glacier, almost to the northern limit of the new Spruce Pass addition.
	www.firsttracksonline.com /news/stories/112675977553588.shtm (651 words)

	Canoeing & Kayaking - North Thompson and Nicola Valley, British Columbia
		To canoe the long and skinny Kinbasket Lake, start at Canoe Reach at Valemount (near the north end of the lake, just south of Tete Jaune Cache on Hwy 5) and work your way south.
		Pay particular attention at the outlet of the lake, as the Mahood River is very rough and dangerous, with rapids and waterfalls.
		Lac Le Jeune is one of the bigger lakes in a region characterized by hundreds of pocket-sized ponds, many of which provide serenity in the midst of splendid isolation.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /recreation?id=88 (461 words)

	Kinbasket Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The old chief had barely time to raise the axe and aim a blow, ’ere the weapon was dashed aside like a flash and he was in the embrace of the monster; the huge forepaws around him, the immense claws dug into his back, the bear held him up.
		The Kinbaskets, or children of Kinbasket, are a Shuswap tribe who, before their confinement to reserves, lived in a more or less nomadic state, wintering and ranging in the Columbia Valley, chiefly between Golden and Windermere.
		From 1973 to 1980 the reservoir was called McNaughton Lake, after General Andrew McNaughton.
	www.spiralroad.com /sr/pn/k/kinbasket_lake.html (302 words)

	Voyage to the Pacific - Part 4
		Kinbasket Lake's shoreline curved left, in a wide U-turn back to the world.
		If that was odd – "the reservoir is their ocean" - it was no more odd than the idea that she and her grandfather were paddling over the sites of former villages and towns.
		The river was working in new ways for people At the end of Arrow Lake, Keenleyside Dam had a navigation lock.
	www.bpa.gov /Power/pl/columbia/Stories/voyage4.htm (1297 words)

	Gwai Haanas, A 1975, 50 ft Aluminum work boat for sale. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The vessels name at that time was the M.V., named for the Kinbasket Lake near Revelstoke.
		For the next 18 years, the Kinbasket Forest was a crew boat that enabled forestry crews to work along the shoreline of the new lake created by the Revelstoke dam.
		The Kinbasket Forest was then sold again, being purchased by the Provincial Parks department for use in the Queen Charlotte Islands; (Haida Gwaii).
	www.islandyachtsales.ca /powerboats/gwaii_haanas/gwaii_haanas.htm (468 words)

	MICA DAM - R&B Complete Services, Mica Creek BC Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The dam is a unique and fascinating earth-filled dam which rises 244 metres above Lake Revelstoke reservoir.
		The Kinbasket Reservoir is surrounded by mountains with the Rocky Mountains to the east and the Monashee and Selkirk Ranges on the west.
		The reservoir extends along the Rocky Mountain Trench from Golden, BC to Valemount, BC.
	www.micavillage.com /dam.htm (127 words)

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