No snow below tree line and then patches here and there up to around 11.5K. The ridge was covered with snow still and there was some nasty ice patches approaching the summit. I put my crampons on and was really happy to have them. Another in our party did not have traction so he hiked down to scree below the ice and was able to get through it o.k. We got a 1,600 foot 2 pitch glissade on the decent. The entire north face is still covered with snow and every couloir is skiable. A skier could expect to keep the boards on down to 12k feet or so. Snow was really soft on the way out and we did some post-holing here and there. Snow shoes would not have been practical as the patches were short lived if effort was made to avoid them.
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