This trail is one, maybe two more years of neglect away from being a properly abandoned trail.
I trail ran this twice in the spring, and it was a much more pleasant experience. Now that the foliage has come to life and that even more trail is in disarray higher up, however, I find that it is not possible to continuously run this. Indeed, in the subalpine traverse section to the pass, the trail is extremely hard to follow (and I follow animal trails and obscure, abandoned trails all the time).
I will say that I did hike this right after two days of heavy rain, so all the plants sagged towards the trail more than is normal. Regardless, this trail is going to be too much for many people, who have difficulty trail finding, don't want to be soaked to the bone by brush-beating in the morning, and generally find that the juice may not be worth the squeeze
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