From Winthrop, WA

The road section from Freezeout trailhead to Tiffany springs is a longish descent followed by a climb up to Tiffany Springs campground.  From the campground the Tiffany Lake trail leaves just accros the road.  it is pretty wide open to Tiffany Lake.  Beyond that it is narrow and technical and very steep in places.  At the top of Honeymoon Pass the views are great!  Worth the effort.  Now it gets tricky.  The directions for this ride con't clearly explain that the trail intersections are not marked and the trail that you are supposed to take to go to Whisper Pass looks more like a game trail as it descents over the creek and then heads up to the pass.  I picked the trail that looked more traveled and had orange diamond trail markers( I only had the GPS track on this website and it isn't real clear).  Anyway after descending quite a ways down single track and then double track I realized I was heading farther down the wrong drainage.  i doubled back and had to climb a long steep slog back up.  At the first intersection I went farther down the right fork and realized that it did get better and continued on to Whisper Pass and Freezeout Ridge.  By that time I was tired and decided to just play it safe and go back the way I came.  Still 9 miles of riding and  hike-a-bike.  The section I missed looked like it would have been amazing except for the long slog back on the road.  I'd probably park at Freezeout and start from there to get the climbing out of the way at the beginning and middle.  So take the first right at the first intersection after Honeymoon Pass.  There is a big rock cairn and a sign saying Tiffany Lake trail but it is unclear from the just the trail and the cairn as to which trail to take and it is easy to mistake the trail I took as the right one because it was more well used.

So with that said the trail was very interesting because it wound through charred logpole pine trees jutting up out of the beautiful orange and yellows of autumn brush and aspen with some Tamaracks.  Then through some islands of unburned forest and then back into the burn and along rocky surrounding Mt. Tiffany.  I can't say it is the best single track from Tiffany Lake to the intersection but it is definitely worth seeing just for the views and seeing a forest reclaiming itself after the fire in 2006.