The trail is super popular, but we lucked out on our hike in seeing only one jogger about 5 miles into the wilderness. The jogger let us know that he had run into snow several miles past Duley Park (our camping destination). We knew there was going to be snow, and actually were surprised to find there wasn't as much snow as we thought there would be.
We hiked another half mile to Duley Park before dropping our packs and having lunch. After lunch we decided to hike up to East Fork. We quickly found that the trail past Duley Park was rather poorly maintained as we hopped logs and fallen trees. We crossed a couple of snow patches, none of them were too large, and made it to East Fork rather quickly. After exploring a bit further, we decided to turn around.
We headed back to Duley Park, where we camped for the night and set up our tent just in time for an afternoon shower. Luckily the storm moved out just as quickly as it moved in, so we didn't have to hunker down in the tent long.
It was the perfect first trip of the season, and it has us eagerly anticipating many more backpacking adventures in the high country this summer.
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