Very generous parking space. Majority of the trail, from parking to the switchback starts, was fine. Beautiful early stopping point at Spada Lake viewpoint w picnic table and a porta potty (last/only). Some beautiful suhing creek views along this part of the lake/reservoir. There is one trickle of a creek crossing with a very clear construction work in progress, easy enough to navigate, but proceed with caution.
But a lot of the switchbacks had an inordinate amount of down trees, large trees, with the roots pulled up making it a bit of a scramble to attempt to go either around the unstable hill from root pull, or scaling the large, downed trees. This makes the switchback path extremely unclear and not visible. Very important to have the trail navigation downloaded.
This is important if you're thinking of backpacking and lugging camping gear to any of the lake spots. Not impossible but...pretty precarious.
Once to the lakes, all clear. Great water access, camp sites really very pretty. Between the two lakes along the way is a significant creek crossing with a VERY splintered bridge. Use caution.
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