This is a great, mostly level trail. The elevation says 856 but you hardly notice it. The trail walks you around a fat curve on the mountain with immediate lovely vistas of surrounding ridges. Soon you start getting peeks of perfectly pointy Agnes mountain in the distance while Agnes Creek rages below (at least in late May). Finally, you are left well above Agnes creek where you can see the remnants of where a suspension bridge to the opposite side was, as well as one of the most stunning waterfalls I have ever seen. Water drops dozens of feet before pounding and reflecting off resilient, flat stone all the way down. Backtrack 100 feet or so and continue on to get all the way down to the water which was absolutely torrential, careening off harsh flat rock walls. Bugs and heat were not a problem but both were probably due to the (unfortunately) overcast skies. Our host said both would have been worse on a sunny day.