Mount Hale

Trail: Little River Road, herd path, Haystack Road, North Twin Trail, Fire Wardens Trail

Conditions: Wet Trail, Wet/Slippery Rock, Ice - Breakable Crust, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Snow - Wet/Sticky, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Unstable), Snow - Spring Snow, Snow/Ice - Postholes, Slush

“The 3 - 4 inches of new snow made this a challenging hike. We barebooted until the second mile up the FW trail. This is where there was ice hiding under the new snow and we put on the spikes. The new snow covered the rocks, roots, ice and post holes. There was a lot of running water on the first section of the FW trail. Once higher in elevation, it was difficult to see a very narrow, inconsistent monorail under the new snow; it was hard to tell what we were stepping on and falling into. There is still a deep snow pack above 3000 ft. On our descent, the light powdery snow became heavier and spikes became useless with huge snow balls sticking to the spikes. With the warm temperatures beginning tomorrow, most of this new snow will melt.”

Trail: Little River Road, herd path, Haystack Road, North Twin Trail, Fire Wardens Trail

Conditions: Wet Trail, Ice - Blue, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Stable), Snow/Ice - Small Patches

“Short hike with E.T. Fudge and Ryan today so Fudge's big day next weekend will be a bit shorter. This is likely the better way to Hale right now. Snow /ice free until higher up on FW (3k ft'ish). The heard path and North Twin Trail are not too muddy. Some running water on lower FW, before a quickly transitioning to breakable ice then short section of unstable monorail. After that the final mile was solid snowpack this morning.”

Trail: Little River Road, herd path, Haystack Road, North Twin Trail, North Twin Spur, Twinway, Zealand Spur, Lend-A-Hand Trail, Firewardens Trail

Conditions: Snow - Trace/Minimal Depth, Wet Trail, Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Ice - Breakable Crust, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Stable), Snow - Wet/Sticky, Snow/Ice - Small Patches

“Bareboots from 7Dwarfs to the N. Twin TH, then micros to about half way up N. Twin, then snowshoes to S. Twin, across to Guyot, and down to Lend-A-Hand, then back to Micros. North Twin to South Twin was nicely packed, the rest of the trails were varying amounts of lumpy, churned, loose snow. Most people seem to be going with microspikes now, and the monorail is supportive but there is a few inches of snow that got rained on on top, and is now getting churned up, so a lot of lump. I was super psyched when I got to S. Twin and saw that a couple of people had broken trail to Guyot, probably yesterday or the day before. Remarkably few trees down between S. Twin and Guyot made for mostly easy navigation. You'll definitely want snowshoes for this stretch. It was much colder up above 3500' today, the snow below that level melted quite a bit and the last half mile of N. Twin trail to the TH and Haystack rd has some dirt patches exposed now. Above 3500', not a lot melted.”