As already mentioned the area is beautiful. The hiking is superb and fairly easy (for mountain hiking)with great views along parts of the trail. On the middle fork when you come out of the forest into the cirque it is fantastic. There is a west fork as well that looks very promising but I have not done that one yet. The fall color there is very striking as one of the previous pictures show. If coming up from Highway 50 driving up the valley is exceptionally beautiful particularly in the fall. Sometimes you get lucky and the clouds are low well fog at that point in the low lying areas and in and out of the peaks and you can see all up the valley with trees, peaks, fog interspersed and sometimes a little snow as well on the peaks. One of my favorite areas of the state.
