The trip can be made in a little over two hours, and as on the return it is down hill nearly all the way, the return trip takes a little less.
Leaving Glenbrook on the excellently kept macadamized road over which Hank Monk used to drive stage from Carson City, the eyes of the traveler are constantly observing new and charming features in the mountain landscape.

The Lake with its peculiar attractions is left entirely behind, with not another glimpse of it until we stand on the flume at Lake Marlette.

Hence it is a complete change of scenery, for now we are looking ahead to tree-clad summits where eagles soar and the sky shines blue.
About two and a half miles out we come to Spooner's, once an active, bustling, roadside hotel, where in the lumbering and mining days teams lined the road four, six and eight deep.

Now, nothing but a ramshackle old building remains to tell of its former greatness.

Here we made a sharp turn to the left, leaving the main road and taking the special Marlette Lake road.