This is a morning hike if you are planning to go to lake. The trail to summit of Margaret is not marked. The trip report from wakf00 on Aug16 was very helpful specially in figuring where the trail starts after walking on decommissioned road.
The summit has tall trees on south so no views there. There is a ledge on the north which has nice views but there is space for standing of one person at a time so very small and with crowd will need to queue up to take photos there.
Did this on a weekday evening short hike. I used the connector ridge trail from Margaret to Lake Lillian but did not make it to laura lakes as I had a set a hard turn around time for myself at 5:30pm.
Started at 3pm with almost full parking lot. I did not go down to the lake after I saw the lake was in shade from switchbacks going down to lake. rather went up to mount margaret which is very steep, similar to old mailbox peak type grade.Some people were still going up while I was coming down. Sun has gone down behind the ridge at 6:52pm and I was back at car at 7pm.
Most of the down trees had trail around them so they must have been down for a while, only two were on the trail and you had to climb over them. Fireweed on last leg. Fall colors at peak for most of the bushes and wines. Still a lot of berries, specially on the connector trail. If you are at second talus field you have missed the spur trail to Mount Margaret.
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