Say, Mark, in August, I hauled my backpacking gear up to Lake 6 and stayed on the north side. Not a bad camping spot, but it did take me a while to get there.
Heading north from Lake 5, I encountered several spots with refrigerator-sized boulders that were a bit challenging to work through. At the 6th lake, I should have navigated around the west side, but took the east, and that added lots of time, too.
Heading up the chute to the Langley plateau was just a talus climb, so wasn't that bad. Unfortunately, it was just the beginning of a very long day that ended at Sky Blue Lake, where I lost my dinner due to the altitude and exhaustion.
