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very icy, with a dusting of snow. ice flows covering most of the trail. crampons or other serious traction aids highly recommended, although we saw people struggling up with snowshoes, with varying degrees of success. microspikes should work for cascade, but the descent into the col to Porter...

Note: Temperatures were unseasonably cool, so expect conditions to be mushier than we encountered. The trail was firm styrofoam most of the way, but was softening by the end of the day. very few postholes, nice and flat. A few bare or icey spots down near the dam, but mostly good hardpack...

Some fairly icey spots. bring your traction aids. I used crampons most of the way, but plenty of people had just snow shoes and were able to make it up. Some of them were slipping and sliding and tumbling down hill though.

It's my birthday soonish, and I'm thinking of getting a climbing harness. I'd like to be able to use it for pretty much everything, Gym climbing, outdoor trad climbing, and possibly as an alpine/ice harness. Basically I'd like to build my "big mountain" skills so that some day I'll be able to...

Muddy, but not as bad as I expected considering the rain this summer. particularly muddy in the col between D and E. most was "hoppable". Wear gaiters. There appears to have been some clearing done, so the blowdown is mostly gone. trailless? Ha! Might as well be blazed. rumor is the trail north...

Trail conditions The road to the weld trail is pretty icey. Once off the road the trail is well broken until the upper altitudes near the summit of Pyramid, where the footprints stray a bit from the blazed trail for a few minutes. The summit of Pyramid is mixed ice and bare rock and a few...

The trail was well packed and easily followed the whole way up. Trail junction was pretty obvious, with no false paths, although there is one stray path on the way up to street. The warm weather was melting the surface of the snow and there was some drizzle in the area on Saturday. This could...

How is the trail up Street and Nye looking? has it been broken recently?

almost perfect conditions the whole way up. trail to lookout rock broken. didn't visit summit lodge. Nice powder off trail, packed styrofoam snow on trail. But the snow cover isn't very deep at the lower elevations. in a few spots there was ice under the snow, and your snowshoe crampons may...