Trail has snowdrifts every now and then, but with minor route-finding you can avoid the snow and still stay close to trail. Upper gully still has good snow and looks like it might for a while. Unless going through the upper gully no snow tools needed. Huerfano River crossing was tough - we placed a log in the morning that worked fine. By afternoon it was relocated a bit downstream and in the river. Yep, I fell in the chest-deep river. It made that last 1.5 miles or so to the car more... refreshing... and I didn't care that significant portions of the trail were submerged because I could just walk through the ankle deep water  So be warned, flat parts of trail may not be flooded in morning but unrecognizable with the afternoon river rise, at least until the snow has finally melted.
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