This is a beautiful hike with lots of options for making it longer or shorter. KEY NOTE: The second half of this trail after Foss River is Challenging. It's doable but takes a lot time and quite steep up hill. Our GPS said closer to 10 miles to Jade lake. Follow the ciarns as the previous person mentioned it can be a little confusing. Also BUGS are really bad once you get to the lakes. I wore my face net most of the time. The road wasn't bad at all. Has some large pot holes the second half, but saw a Prius do it going slow.
-There are quite a few trees across the trail that make for somewhat of an obstacle course on the second half after Foss River crossing. Not a problem passing just takes a lot longer over and under.
-There isn't snow until you get past the initial lakes and start to work towards La Bohn. Didn't need our microspikes. Not sure if there's more around La Bohn didn't get that far.
-Getting to La Bohn is a very steep climb we opted not to do after making up to the initial lakes the first day. The trail to La Bohn was also hard to find next to the waterfall. Plenty to explore between Jade and and La Bohn. Our favorite was Ilswoot, great place to swin too. Nice campsites at Emerald and Jade that we saw and a one tent site at Ilswoot.
I recommend 2-3 nights for this one. We did two and one more night would have been nice to make it to La Bohn. Very beautiful with lots of exploring options if you aren't afraid of mosquitos. This would be a grueling day hike don't recommend it for that unless you stop at the Foss River Crossing. Enjoy!
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