From Kilpacker Basin there is some snow on the way up to El Diente, but it's pretty much all avoidable. The traverse is dry, except for a few steps across an icy gully at one point. The ice has a nice snow curb on the low edge so it wasn't sketchy enough for me to pull out gear. I followed Roach's Southwest slopes route to get back into Kilpacker, which is sort of miserable. There is a nasty, steep snow field high up in the gully that I worked my way around. A little lower down the snow is continuous (and thankfully much less steep) and I boot skied or glissaded quite a bit of the descent back to where the El Diente trail splits off.
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