The following spring, Clarence left to return to their northern claims once again, but wrote to Ethel before his boat departed from Seattle to request that she and her younger sister, Edna, accompany him to the Yukon. The sisters obliged and joined up with Clarence and his eight-person party several days later. After outfitting the ladies with appropriate travelling attire, the entire group set off for the Klondike via the Inside Passage waterway and the Chilkoot Pass.