August 24th 2021
James Walker is at the end of a beautiful valley full of waterfalls and tarns. In August the tarns are low in water but the waterfalls remain flowing.
The trail head is from Sawmill Parking on the Smith Dorrien Spray lakes Trail. I like to come in from Hwy 40 a little longer but not as much gravel road. From behind the washrooms walk to through the gate to the logging road and turn left at about 1.5 km fork right after 4.5km reach the first tarn. Plenty of room to walk around in August. Follow trail to wide open valley .Head to the right of the west face of James Walker. There is a route up this face but we went the standard route to the end of the tarns valley and up the steep loose slope to the summit .We were fortunate to have some snow ( August ) to work with through the scree. Summit views make this hard slog worth while. I would also recommend just hiking into the valley to see tarns and waterfalls.
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