Upper drainage

As the drainage steepens & narrows, the trail goes up the right bank and wraps around the upper reaches to the saddle on the NE Ridge. The trail gets scarce in some places, but some very good people have left cairns and trail tape to mark it. We got in a hurry on the way up & missed this branch, which resulted in scrambling up the channel then going straight up the left bank toward the saddle until we came across the trail again.