Just an update for now. Will upload photos later.

Robinson Creek trail crossed the creek multiple times, but the 2 bridges are a bit high: not too easy to fetch water. One small creek crossing between the 2 bridge where you can get water (maybe about 2 miles in).

The junction to Beauty Creek trail is right after the 2nd bridge. At the end of the normal trail, just before the flowering slope, you cross creek about 3 times in short succession. Good place to refill water and sit in the shade (not a whole lot of place to sit though). The flowing slope has almost no shade. Speaking of flowers, this slope is blooming nicely right now. The Robinson Creek trail didn't have flowers left.

Above the slope, the trail is faint. But not too hard to navigate. You stay on the right side (on the way up) of the creek all the way, and you'll hit its source: the tarn.

We camped at the tarn on Saturday. We were the only party camping. A few day climbers on both Sat and Sun. The tarn was mostly melted. There were some snow patches left around the tarn, however, not a lot of flat spot to pitch tents. I pitched mine on a small snow patch.

We went up south ridge, and down southeast ridge. The east face of south ridge had little snow left. The south face of southeast ridge, and the entire right all the way to the summit had no snow. I think only 2 accessible patches of snow still cling to the east side of the south ridge north of the junction, where we can still step down a bit to get snow (I like snow in my water bottle).

Coming down southeast ridge's  south side is very loose scree. To me, it's the most tricky part. The rest is good. The ridge itself is relatively solid.

The view is fabulous once you are on any of the ridges.

A lot of little biting flies, all the way to the lower ridges! Mosquitoes are out, but not really biting. Odd, Sunday, a lot less biting insects. Maybe too hot for them too.

Spring is warming into summer and the flowers are in bloom for the first 4 miles. While less flowered, the meadows beyond 6 miles are also beautiful.

But back to the start...just watch your step in the first 2 miles, because the warmth also brings out the snakes at the low elevation. Other hikers saw two rattlesnakes.

The trail has not been logged out and travel beyond 5 miles is moderately difficult for hikers and stops stock. There are about 32 logs over the trail between 2.7 and 7.0 miles.  Many logs require cross-country bypasses to get around.

The large secondary streams are running full (Amey, Midnight), as is Robinson Creek. At 6 miles, the crossing of Robinson Creek is a ford (15" deep with strong current), or a single 12" diameter springy log, 30ft long and 7ft above the trail. I opted for the bone chilling ford - trekking poles were essential for balance.

The trail was essentially snow free on my trip.

Due to time and energy, I started back to the car at 7 miles in.

I met a backpacker coming out on a resupply trip. She said that snow started at Robinson Pass and was continuous down the north side to 5600ft. The Middle Fork Pasayten Valley had patchy snow below 5600ft and more logs over the trail in the forest as far as she went, which was the Eureka Creek Trail Junction (access to Fred's Lake).

Hiked in Friday night to a camp about 4 miles in - snow and blowdown free up to that point. Saturday packed up camp around 11 and hiked about 9 more miles past Robinson pass down to a really nice, fortunately snow free, campsite just off the trail near the west fork pasayten river. Trail after the log crossing of Robinson was almost entirely covered in snow and there were tons of blowdowns, we wore microspikes for most of the remaining hike, I would have loved to have poles, and snowshoes may have been nice since the snow is definitely soft and we post-holed pretty much the entire way down the pass. We were definitely not always on the trail, which gave us some trouble coming down the backside of robinson pass where terrain got much steeper. We ended up following some ski tracks down from the pass, as they stayed on/close to the avenza maps trail. Needless to say, there was backtracking and it was slow going. Backside was gorgeous with all the recent snow melt uncovering meadows. Lots of deer (elk?) print, some paws that seemed like maybe fox, and my hiking partner saw a large bear in close proximity. Sunday we hiked out. 

Road potholed but not terrible. Trail in decent shape with some blowdown. The Beauty Creek trail heads off to the right immediately after the second bridge and is easy to miss. I hit snow around 4500 ft and put boots on. Crampons and snowshoes were never needed. The climb of Robinson was fun and the scramble section not difficult. Great views of the North Cascades.

With hazy air quality, we decided on a forest trek up Robinson Creek towards Robinson Pass to check out the upper basin.  We made it within a mile of the pass before turning around, making this a 16-mile round trip with 3,000 feet of elevation gain.  The gentle 5 to 10% grade of the trail makes the miles fly by. The trail is generally in great shape throughout, though the brush is a bit thick between miles 3 and 4, three trees are down between miles 6 and 8 (only the mile 8 tree is difficult to get around), and a spring runs down the trail around mile 7; this spot could use a water bar.  Great fall conditions with lots of color, and a few meadows around mile 6 are worthy destinations themselves.  The sub-alpine fir forest in the upper basin is spectacular.  We'll be back next year to make it to the pass!