Driving the road in the first 2 miles there are two spots that drop into a wash area about 4 feet where my Rav4 scrapped bottom, the rest of the road has a few potholes but otherwise not too bad. 

We were the only ones at the trailhead and didn't see anyone else all day. It seems like a good place to go for solitude. There are about 7 parking spots at the trailhead.

WTA was up here recently and the first portion is on a new trail that intersects with the old trail at places. Make sure you are on the newer trail it's easy to miss a switchback and end up on sketchy wet rock slabs before reaching Three O'Clock Rock.

We mapped the GPS track of the new trail with the Cairn app, you can use Cairn to show the route. 

The trail after the first mile is wet, muddy, and rooty. It was too warm for ice on this day but I would bring micro-spikes on colder days, also bring poles.

At Three O'Clock Rock, the views open up and get progressively better till you reach the pass. At the pass is a great place for lunch, to view 3 fingers on a clear day.

Left my black diamond trekking poles in the parking lot :( Actually drove back to the trailhead the next morning, but didn’t find them :( Would so love to have them back. You can reply to this thread. Thank you!

The place is beautiful! Amazing views! Trail was pretty muddy and slippery at times. Trekking poles were helpful. And it snowed on top a tiny bit. But fall foliage was still very visible.

FYI  the pit toilet is opposite the parking lot from the trail.  There is a path and at least one cut log.

Don't be one of the few Trail blind to take a dump within sight of the toilet but miss it completely.

Feeling ornery? Well this trail is about as ornery as it gets and can still be called a trail. Don't be fooled by the nice new reroute done by WTA volunteers. After 3 O'clock rock it degenerates to a series of root ladders and sidehilling trail, complete with a few blowdowns and slick rocks all for your hiking enjoyment, and all steep. It can be tricky to follow if  you're not paying attention, especially on the way down. Here's a few hints. It goes right at the base of 3 O Clock rock (last time we climbed a bit on the climbers trail  until we realized our mistake). Cross an overgrown boulder field, the start switchbacking up. At each switchback, take a look behind you, so you recognize the switchback turn coming down. That's when I got briefly 'off trail' last time. There are a few false paths leading to a rock face or the boulder field. Once done with the root ladders, the trail continues thru huckleberry bushes, lots of them, watch your feet, you may be stepping in bear scat, we saw a ****ton (ha ha) of it, and fresh.  Right now the gentian is in bloom and there are little pollywogs in the small tarns alongside of the trail. There are  also several huge mud holes, wide and deep. When you get to the large granite slabs, there are cairns marking the way up to the pass. From the pass there are views of Three Finger, Whitehorse, Big Bear and other peaks. Not much today tho. We hiked up the ridge a ways, about halfway up Higher Squire, until we saw a bear, and we decided he needed his space, and made a hasty retreat down to our packs. Ravennspirit saw him first, startled him and he turned and headed for higher ground. I was behind, as usual, and I saw him moving around on the rocks. We were pretty excited, our first bear sighting of the year! By the time we left, the weather has started to clear and we had some of the views we'd hiked up for. We saw no one at the pass, a pair of backpackers coming out with a baby no less, and climbers at the rock on our way out. Beware of the road, we saw a Mini Cooper Countrymen up there, but that's as low as you want to go. Leave the sports car at home. Parking for about 5 cars, no loo. Still hikeathoning: give.wta.org/Muledeer100

I traded my hikeathon shirt today for a trail crew shirt and went back to work the Eight Mile trail reroute. The road going in, well, there was a Ford something or other sedan up there, so a regular car can make it, slowly. Don't be fooled by the first 2 miles, the rest is almost as rocky as the trail (before the reroute). There are several gravel filled dry stream bed crossings where the FS must have pulled out the culverts. Only one is a bit tricky because of the large dip on one side. Lots of potholes too and no loo at the TH. (Use the one at the Clear Creek campground before you start up) My old Forester did OK. The trailwork was a continuation of the switchback reroute bypassing the rock gully that was previously considered the trail. We ended up completing a crib wall that was started by a previous crew, and beginning some more benching and flattening of the new trail. This will make the lower section a bit easier to hike and more sustainable over the long run. And I hate to say it, cuz I really don't like crowded trails, but this one does need a bit more boots so it doesn't dissappear. Our trail crew hasn't touched the upper part, so I'm sure it's as gnarly as it ever was.  Help my hikeathon wta fundraiser for trailwork like this: give.wta.org/Muledeer100