Looks like there is more snow on the route than their is. While the entire ridge is a snowfield the left side is clear, so once you're up and over the initial hump and on La Plata's ridge you are snow free. Below that the gully is clean, with the exception of one point on the trail with a 4-5' high snowfield covering, but it is solid snow, walked right across at 11:30am. Willows are willows, and the trail is hard to follow through them, but worse comes to worse follow the creek back down to the trail lol (not joking about that though).
|
