Continued...So one of two nice, smooth, enjoyable thermals the whole day got me to 10,000' over the Golf course where Ian had just landed (north of Barnhartville, on the north side of the river east of Kamloops.)
Photo looking east from North of Barnhartvale, over the Golf Course Ian Landed at. Chase is way off in the distance to the east. Speargrass launch is almost immediately below, Pritchard Launch is closer to the end of the ridge to the east.

Slid down over
Speargrass and Pemberton Hills Launches (near Pritchard)
(See
Pemberton Hills (near Pritchard) Site Guide info) before heading south down the highway 97c to escape over-development, scraping low again till I got saved near the Weigh Scale station. That took me to 11,000. Then that cursed sink alarm yet again...
View from over the Weigh Scale Station, looking west back to Kamloops. Barnhartvale half way there, on the south side of the river.

The place to aim for is "Tiger Country" (forest) NW of Monty Lake.
There is usually a boomer there, if not, the E-W facing ridge just east of Monty Lake will get you safely into the Faulkland valley. The boomer was there in spades. Maybe the nicest thermal I've had in 35 years flying. 1000' up, a good Km in diameter, smooth as a baby's bum. Took that to 11,000 again.
History has taught us that for XC into Vernon from Faulkland, you want to fly over Tuktaktemum and hug the south ridge.
Aside: This is where I switched modes from "taking what God gives you" to "Know it All" mode... so of course, all went down hill from here on in.
Heading west to Monte Lake and Kamloops from Boleen the north bowl stretching up towards Chase is a good route. Boleen Site Guide.
Heading east from Boleen the west face of Mt Connaught (overlooking Faulkland )
has two sweet house thermals (one off the NW point, one smack in the middle of the west face.)
View of Boleen Launch, looking at Kelly Ridge where those sweetie and ever so reliable House Thermals live.
One lives in the center, well in front of the ridge, the other lives NW of the ridge, way out. 

But it's a sucker punch cause heading east you are in Sink City till Round Lake
(where there is a house thermal in the middle of the forest on the east side of the lake.
Failing that, aim for good old reliable Grandview. From there, heading for Mara or Lumby, get up to 8000 and glide straight east across the valley
towards the "hook" in the Enderby Ridge
- where it juts out into the valley south of Armstrong. There is a good house thermal half way cross that will teach you how to look hard for 737's and another one well out WNW from the point on the ridge.
Yes, you can slide south to Vernon Mt. if you have heaps of altitude.
There is usually very little sink out in the middle of the Valley, but it's one heck of a long glide to gamble on. (End aside.)
But I screwed up....
Again, being famous for repeating myself... why stop now...
History has taught us that for XC from Faulkland into Vernon, you want to fly over Tuktaktemum and hug the south ridge." Yep.

Nada. Bloody F#$%^&ing Sink Alarm. I chickened out. Whipped straight across the valley to
Kelly Ridge east of Faulkland and yep, that sweetie house was there again as always.
Took it to 8000' and then as it petered out, like a complete idiot I left it instead of milking it for the additional 2000' I stone cold knew I would need, and headed back SE to the NW facing bowl of Moffat ridge to try to reconnect with the "sure way" into the OK valley.
Ya C's:
It was 6:30 PM and the glass off should have begun... or so I was a thinking.
But half way into landing I was just screaming, swearing at my Sink Alarm: (
"Shut the "F" Up! Shut up! Shut Up!" over and over again.)
If I never hear that sound again.... Hour after hour of sink alarm...
Not a hope in hell of enough height to work the ridge east (at the North end of Okanagan Lake) of the Spallamachine Golf course. It's trees are so high now, not a hope of landing there. So I winged over into the O'Keef Ranch hay field directly across from the golf course entrance and their beer spiggots.
77 Mile 122 Km. 6.5 hours... not bad considering my VG was Misassembled and did NOT work at all... Gotta wonder how many inches I could have squeezed out with it!
4 others beat me, one by 5 K's. Three including John McClintoch made it to Lumby with altitude to spare. Silly buggers.
- A quick slide to Cherryville and they would have broken the magic 100 miles. Oy vay. Cold beer and a warm welcome are sure inviting.