The drive is on gravel, wide enough with minor potholes. Passable in all passenger cars. The trail resembles a logging road, just not as wide. Filled with loose rocks of various sizes, hard on your feet. The first hour is in the woods, passing a very small creek. 
When it emerges from the trees, the view gets better and better, so are flowers. These two photos were taken facing forward (you can see Silver Star in the top photo) and backward at this section. This is the nicest part of the trail. Then it goes into woods again and begins zigzag. Before long, it hits a couple of trail junctions, all in the woods.
Finally, you emerge out of the woods again, and on to an open saddle. The view here is spectacular. Flowers are quite good here beside bit rocks. Turn left for the summit or to the right for another slightly lower one. Both are short and easy. 
A lot of people here. Not surprising. I know 4 groups coming here today. The kids I was with spent quite some time taking turns for photos as well as selfies. This is about 3 miles, 2000'ft gain from TH. We continued down to Ed's Trail for ~1 mile to check out the arch. The trail gets quite steep at times. But we didn't push further to the wide open meadow which made Ed's Trail special. Had lunch in an open cave looking at the arch. I chatted with a couple whose dog came into the cave to lie down in front of us in the shade.
On the way back, checked out the "water" sign. Not the best source in a black pipe and a blue plastic container, with visible debris. Still good to know a water source, since all the snow is gone.
Our event organizer planned to visit English Estate Winery in Vancouver. Nice property (was in the same family for about 100 years, but only became a winery about 30 years ago), over looking St Helen, and a quarry. It was their 10th annual Art and Wine Fair. A lot of people were here despite of the almost 90° weather. The guy who oversees the parking is super nice. He brought us chairs and showed me the trailer-turned-sitting room used by the late Ms. English. Their wine is a too sweet for my liking. They also sell brandy mixed desert wine - which are nicer (still sweet, but somehow lighter). Out of all the vendors, I like this lady's egg decoration. You can watch her makes them on the spot. A lady who was playing on stage sat with us for awhile. She was taking a year off from being a high school teacher.I didn't return home until ~9pm, hungry.
