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A faint trail along the not-so-small-afterall Kerkeslin Creek.The trail is obviously not rigorously maintained anymore.Even though it's not maintained very well, there were dozens and dozens of blazes on the trees. If you get off trail just look for blazes!The trail is "old school", in that it parallels the creek very closely.The bushes were soaking wet on the approach. By the time we realized this, we were already soaking wetFinally we break into the alpine meadows before the lake. Still lots of travel though moderate bush but the worst is over now.A large bruin has been here fairly recently. The entire approach valley was full of these overturned rocks.Our first good views of Kerkeslin.Classic Jasper - wet and boggy.A nice trail through the lush alpine - note the water on the lens!Immediately at the lakeshore we notice this.Bear scat.Lovely, remote, wild Kerkeslin Lake.Now that's a bivy worth bushwhacking for!Heading up the extremely foreshortened gully behind camp.I wondered if the slabs in the gully would be an issue but we could avoid slick parts on climber's left.Pretty decent views already part way up the gully looking back at Kerkeslin and Kerkeslin Lake.More expansive views as we approach snow line.We finally reach snow line! Man - it was way longer than it looked to get to the summit at upper left than it seemed.
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