We started our hike around 7:15ish and didn't run into hardly anyone until we were on our way back. The first part of the trail is through some woods and goes over some small creeks. It's a steady uphill climb but nothing major. Once you get past that, you are walking along side of a mountain and there are some pretty nice views of the valley. The first two pictures below is a pretty nice view of the valley headed back to the trailhead and also a view of some small ponds.
Once you get pat that, you can then go right to Caribou Lake or left to Dorothy. We started out going right and as you can see from the picture below, Ali is posing above Caribou. Be warned, it's pretty windy at this point so you need to be prepared. Also, there is about a 1,000 elevation difference between the top of the mountain and Caribou Lake so it makes walking back not very fun.
Once we hit Caribou, we walked about 1.5 miles or so in the valley. It was very pretty with small streams and waterfalls. Yet again, we were the only people there so it was very peaceful.
After we got back up to the split, we then hiked about 7 minutes to Dorothy Lake. It wasn't anything special but since we were there we figured why not. The picture below shows the trail headed to Dorothy.
By the time it was all said and done, we ended up hiking almost 12 miles with quite a bit of elevation gain. As you can see from the green chart below, what really sucked was the ups and downs. But overall I would recommend this trail. It had a very good mixture of terrain and as long as you get there early, it's pretty secluded as well.
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