Just did this hike to check it off my list since I was in the area. The first 1.5 miles really weren't that bad. Several blowdowns, but not hard to negotiate. At .7 miles, the trail disappears at a slide, but you find it again if you just pick your way for 100 ft across the rubble. At about 1.5 miles, things really deteriorate. There's some scrambling, then the trail becomes indistinct. It turned out that the correct way was to drop down into a salmonberry-choked bottomland, where the faint path eventually leads to a slippery volunteer footlog. The log was blocked halfway across by another log that had fallen across it. From the log, there was a view upstream to a small waterfall.
Trillium and skunk cabbage were in bloom.
On my way out, I was surprised to meet another hiker, carrying a full pack. Turned out he'd camped at trail's end, and had hiked this trail at least 20 times, because he could be sure of finding solitude.
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