Our group arrived at the TH at 9:15. There were about 6 cars in the lot including ours. The lot was only 1/3 full. Not bad but this was a weekday.
I hiked this route on a sunny, blue sky day with a group of friends. This was my first time hiking this route. We missed the turn on the logging road about 0.7 miles from the parking lot where the trail heads off to the left up into the woods. It was marked by a 3 inch wide brown vertical plastic stake. I realized it a short way up the logging road and we decided to follow the road because it switched back and met up with the trail again a short way up the road. In the end, we were happy we took the road "switchback" instead of the narrower, steeper trail even though it added a minor distance to our hike.
There were an annoying amount of mosquitoes around Twin Lakes and Lake Lillian and the sections where there was still snow-melt water along the trail. Be sure to take some kind of repellant.
Lake Lillian was beautiful. The water was sparkling and clear. Most of our group jumped in to take a swim. We could see a couple small patches of snow on the slopes around the lake. The water was cold but not icy cold.
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