Trail well packed down. Went up in boots w/o traction or flotation. For the last 1000 ft gain to summit, I was kick stepping and staying just to the right of the packed down trail that was just a little slick. On the way down I put traction on which made for easier decent of the packed trail until I got down to 13K feet. It's been colder recently so trail had good freeze. However, starting to warm up by 10:30AM when I was back down between 12 and 13K feet (lots of sun out today). Didn't see any skiers but a morning ski today would not have been that great with mostly crusty snow and some icy patches. Probably better tomorrow and next day as looking like warming will continue.
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