Summitted La Plata today, barely. My father and I found the trench heading up the winter variation to have about 4-6 inches of new powder. Many many thanks to all who helped put in the trench before us! We helped pound down all the new powder.
We have left a really good track all the way up to the headwall and you may even see our tracks above along the ridge as well. We ditched snowshoes at the headwall and that seemed to be the right idea. Tons of snow down low still! Also found tons of snow on the ridge. Postholed in various places up on the ridge finding deep snow between rocks and other such places. Not worth dragging the snowshoes up that high though. It was a real grunt to gain the summit through all the snow. Carried ice ax, but did not use it. Carried microspikes instead of crampons and they were helpful as always.
Hope this helps, enjoy!
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