Fort St. James / Elevation sheet
Mount Pope / Nak'al
- Round trip
- 13 km
- Elevation gain
- Not established The source lists 790 m with the destination approach. The stored distance includes a calculated return, but climbing on that return has not been separately established.
- Walking time
- 4-6 hours
- Difficulty
- Moderate There and Back
round trip calculated as 2 × official 6.5 km to summit
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Mount Pope trailhead · Turn around: Mount Pope summit shelter (6.3 km) · Finish: Mount Pope trailhead (12.5 km mapped).
Approximate ground elevation from a 90 m terrain model. Distance follows the mapped itinerary and may differ from published walking distance. This is a terrain-model profile, not a surveyed measurement. Any ascent total is identified separately with its own source or estimation method.
How the route order was checked
The main source component begins15m from the published trip start and ends2m from the mapped summit shelter and10m from the independently named Mount Pope peak. BC Parks describes the summit gazebo as the objective and the same-trail descent. The detached36m viewpoint spur is excluded because it is not part of the complete main approach.
Copernicus GLO-90 terrain elevations via Open-Meteo (CC BY4.0); linework: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0
Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo. Linework source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/140536462. Sampled and rounded for display.
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Licence: CC BY4.0 elevation data; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 linework · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Profile source checked: 2026-10-18
Measurement notes
7 km to summit
750 m