This was my last hiking trip before I moved from BC to NB.
It was 4 of us on this trip, me, Dean, Adrien and Bonn-Tien.
The road wasn't too bad for Dean's Jeep and just before the trailhead there was few pretty deep waterbars but we were able to cross them with Dean's car.
The trail to lower Statlu Lake wasn't too bad, and pretty well marked.
From the lower lake we continued our way to the Upper Statlu Lake where the trail gets steeper but soon we got to the Upper Statlu Lake which was our camping spot.
After we found a nice spot near the lake we got our tents ready and started to get our dinners ready when I got a surprise from my friends who carried up a pretty delicious cake and a really nice watermelon.
The next morning we woke up and Adrien and Bonn-Tien decided to just stay in the area and explore the lake while me and Dean started our way to Mount Clarke.
There was a pretty loose gully that we could see from our campsite but we decided to just stay in the forest for a while before we started traversing and going up to Alpine Basin.
From there it was pretty easy travel to get up to the col from where dropped a bit and traversed under a part of the ridge of Mount Clarke.
Then we joined the summit ridge that leads up to Mount Clarke which has some exposed class 4 moves .
I had a rope with me and found a pretty solid boulder that I used to loop the rope around and throw it to Dean which wasn't too comfortable on that move and at that point a group of 2 climbers Ben and Jeremy got close to us.
From that section the route gets easier to the summit.
We took our time on the summit, took lots of photos, exchanged some info and soon we started our way back down.
Dean used the rope as a handline and after we took the rope and started to make out way back to the col.
On our way down from Alpine Basin we decided to take the loose gully which was a bit faster than our route up.
Once we got to our camp we saw only one tent, so Adrien adn Bonn-Tien already left and they left us the watermelon, so we took our time enjoying the views from the lake
We met Adrien and Bon-Tien at the lower Statlu lake from where wasn't too far to the parking lot.
It was for sure a great trip with great friends in a new area, too bad was my last hike in BC and I had to move to NB for a while.
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