Began the hike at 10:40 the beginning was smooth running as you would expect, the trillium was pretty and more flowers were in bloom the higher you got. Once we were a little ways up we began to see snow patches and occasionally had to walk over them without much trouble, a couple downed trees without much trouble getting around them. the snow began to increase as we climbed and once we got to the junction where the trail splits into a trail to flapjack and a trail to black and white lakes the snow was getting deep and more frequent. When you pass that junction you are around a half mile from the lakes however after another quarter mile of walking we faced only snow with few footprints leading in different directions, eventually we were unable to find the trail at all and had to turn back only a half mile from the lakes which was very disappointing. You may be able to make it to the lakes with snow shoes.
Warnings: all the snow is melted underneath from run off making it unstable, falls can lead to serious injuries when it gets to a few feet deep near the top. Also in the deeper snow there were snowshoe tracks leading away from the trail which made it easier to lose the trail.
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