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.