Gotta love the sound of crampons on rocks...sort of like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Above LBL, everything appeared to be a winter wonderland.
yeah, no skiing on the chalkboard... The photo of LBSL shows me that there is very little snow compared to my last trip in April of 2011, when it had just dumped a record month of snow in March. We had solid snow all the way up the creek, and at LBSL you could not see any of the bushes - it was all buried under 10 feet. Back then we used snow shoes and I wished for ski, but I think the conditions right now are more for snow shoes, or none of the above.
I'll have a few warmup days on the mountain to scout out the conditions before we head up for real, but I certainly hope for some more snow this month.
