However, most left the Cariboo goldfields to head eastward along the wagon road to present day Savona, to board a steamer. Maintaining an easterly direction, they crossed Kamloops Lake, passed Fort Kamloops, along the South Thompson River, crossed Little Shuswap Lake, and along the Little River, and across Shuswap Lake (formerly called Big Shuswap Lake). The SS Marten operated the Savona-Seymour run to the mouth of the Seymour River. Trails over the Monashee Mountains, familiar to First Nations, led to the Columbia. Seymour to the Columbia was , with snow deep in places. Parties from Kamloops also travelled overland in pack trains, completing the journey down Smith Creek (a.k.a. Gaffney or Kirbyville creek) to the Columbia.