Loved this trail. Road out to the trailhead is pathed but you do need to watch out for some gnarly dips. WTA was working on the trail - super friendly and you could easily see their impact. One streaming crossing. The trail is well maintained and gorgeous. Mostly covered so will be great in the summer not be exposed the whole time. No bugs yet. Some flowers along the way. The water was raging and really lovely to cross over a few times. The bridges are to die for. The lake is pretty but not anything breathtaking - this is more of an enjoy the journey trail. The pit toilet near the camp ground near the lake is closed. We didn’t see many people hiking or camping but it was a Tuesday. We were alone in the woods most of the time but saw enough people to know this trail is probably pretty popular. Nice, gradual incline. Nothing real technical. Highly recommend. We clocked right at 7.3 round trip with 1663 elevation gain.

Easy hike, it wasn't crowded, took us 3 hours round trip. Wanted to do upper lake, but we will do that next time, it seems like there is still up there and we weren't prepared for that.

The trail was in great condition even with the Spring runoff in full force. The lake over 48 hours rose about 3 feet. Because of the runoff the river at the north end was extremely difficult to pass over fallen logs. Because of this the camp sites on the other side weren't being used forcing more people on the west site of the lake. On Saturday there were people camping anywhere and everywhere. That plus day hikers made for a crowded weekend. This is a very heavily used route so please be respectful of nature.

WTA work party repairing, stabilizing, and improving the trail.  There are many, many hours of labor that go into keeping the trails hikable!  It's a lot of fun participating in these volunteer crews, and interesting to learn how trails are created and maintained.  We're in the process of replacing the rotting out curbing at the trail entrance to keep the trail edge from collapsing.  Since no trees can be cut, the first task is to find a suitable downed tree, then remove all branches and strip the bark, and finally rig the massive thing into place.  There are also areas in the switchbacks where erosion is taking the tread, so large rocks must be found, hauled, and then firmly dug into place to stop the soil from washing away.  How about all those stone steps on the way up?  Unfortunately, the glaciers didn't just happen to drop them in the right place for a trail, so after searching for and carrying them to the trail they are dug deeply into the ground in order to take the pounding of thousands of bootsteps for years to come. No experience is necessary to join a work party, in fact there was a first-timer having fun out here today!

I actually did not see the previous trip report before I set out this morning on my scouting trip of the Upper Lena Lake Trail. I had a slightly different experience than the below. 

Lower Lena was lovely, trail pretty easy and in great shape! Then the fun started once I began my journey towards Upper Lena Lake. Patchy snow started around 2300 ft, complete with insanely sketchy and unstable snow bridges. The trail was difficult to follow at times, because as noted, there are a lot of branches and conifer needles everywhere. It also is not well-trafficked AT ALL, so it was hard to find footprints. But I managed. Where I differ from the below trip report is that I made it past the park boundary no problem. There were multiple blowdowns, but all were passable. 

The snow was getting more and more unstable as I continued forward in the park. I turned around at around 2500' when I took one step and sank to mid/high thigh (and I'm very tall!). Not worth it. It's gonna be awhile unfortunately until all that snow is gone! :( Be careful out there! It looks deceptively packed, but it sure isn't!