Robinson Creek - South — Friday, May. 28, 2021

Hiked in Friday night to a camp about 4 miles in - snow and blowdown free up to that point. Saturday packed up camp around 11 and hiked about 9 more miles past Robinson pass down to a really nice, fortunately snow free, campsite just off the trail near the west fork pasayten river. Trail after the log crossing of Robinson was almost entirely covered in snow and there were tons of blowdowns, we wore microspikes for most of the remaining hike, I would have loved to have poles, and snowshoes may have been nice since the snow is definitely soft and we post-holed pretty much the entire way down the pass. We were definitely not always on the trail, which gave us some trouble coming down the backside of robinson pass where terrain got much steeper. We ended up following some ski tracks down from the pass, as they stayed on/close to the avenza maps trail. Needless to say, there was backtracking and it was slow going. Backside was gorgeous with all the recent snow melt uncovering meadows. Lots of deer (elk?) print, some paws that seemed like maybe fox, and my hiking partner saw a large bear in close proximity. Sunday we hiked out.