The old tread heads down through forest and is pretty easy to follow, except for one stretch among a bunch of big boulders.  

You think you should go down but actually you go up a ways and pick up the tread again.

The tread leads to a shoulder above one of the meadows under peak 8189.  If you look close there are cairns that lead you to the meadow and then up over a small ridge that bisects the two meadows.