Field report: Stevens Lakes trail snow-free for hikers
HIKING -- Here's a Saturday Field Report for hikers:
A Spokane Mountaineers group led by Lynn Smith maintained and brushed the trail to Stevens Lakes near Lookout Pass. They also picked up and packed out ALL of the litter.
- Snow is gone up to the lower lake, but snow patches linger at the upper lake, elev. 5,740 feet.
- East Fork Willow Creek can be crossed on logs.
- Still big cornices looming off Stevens Peak.
- Good huckleberry crop brewing.