We went in via East Creek. There was no bridge, but it was September and not difficult to cross the creek. People were camping on the side of the highway down by river as it was Labor Day. Some parts of trail beyond that were sloughing off in one section. Once you get to mine area, it got trickier to navigate as there is tape everywhere so you think you're going correctly. Use Gaia or other GPS as we followed tape and ended up in thick scrub brush when we should have gone down the landslide and picked up the trail 250 feet below where trail comes out to landslide. Then it was hard to see where trail went at next creek crossing, but we found it. Weren't sure whether there was water up there so in that next section we filled up lots of water and hauled it up 2000 feet and up and other a lot of blowdown to get to the pass. By that point, we weren't sure which knob was the area of the lookout so we stayed at pass. There is not a trail to lookout from there, but it isn't a bad scramble. Had we known it was less than half mile and 300 gain, we would have gone on up as it was cold at pass. Dave was really tired by then, and neither one of us were sure where lookout was exactly, and it was after 6 on a fall weekend. The view from lookout was incredible - doubt you'd want to overnight in it unless desperate as it is small and had supplies in it. It also had no windows. There is a window fund on the Friends of Mebee Lookout site. We've contributed a couple times, and I encourage lookout chasers to help out.