We hiked in on Thursday around noon and hiked out Saturday morning and had beautiful, sunny weather all three days. As far as we could tell, there was only one other person at the Lena Lake campground on Thursday night and maybe two other parties on Friday night. We did try a day hike to Upper Lena Lake and there was too much snow to get more than about a mile and half up the trail. We saw osprey, jays, ducks and juncos but not much other wildlife. And thankfully few bugs! It was super cold at night - we basically hid in our sleeping bags once the sun went down.
Please note: the main bathrooms are closed but if you go a little farther up the trail there are pink trail markers and signs for "toilet" that bring you to two open air toilet seats. Beats digging a hole! The signs at the closed bathrooms don't mention them - we found them by accident.
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