Got to the trailhead around ten and parked on the side of the road right by the main parking area. When we got back, there were about a half dozen cars in front of us (and no toilet paper in the outhouse!).
Hiked the loop counterclockwise on a lovely day. The trail's in pretty good shape, though there was lots of mud, sometimes on a steep slope, but we survived. Lots of trillium, miners lettuce and yellow violets, with some bleeding heart at the top. On the spur trail at the top, I was a bit confused because it didn't line up with what my map on Gaia was telling me, and what I remembered from my last hike here a few years ago. But that was made clear at the top, where there was a signed marked "New Jim Whitaker Trail" . Not sure who was supposed to read it, since it wasn't like there was any other way to get there--they did a great job blocking the old trail.
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