My boy (age 11) and I headed up to Lone Pine Lake yesterday. We left the portal at 1pm, prepared to spend the night either by the lake or at Outpost Camp. Very few hikers on the trail, but many search and rescue, with several people still missing on the mountain. Despite waterproof and Snowsealed Merrells and Drymitt shells over our gloves we were still wet, and I decided to turn him around at the fork to Lone Pine Lake. Word from hikers coming down from Trail Camp was that the snow was thigh deep, with drifts deeper, and at least 8 inches at outpost camp. Snow at 9500' was slushy. The thought of sleeping in it, with a scared 11 year old, was enough to turn us around and hike down in the dark. i have a panorama from about 6:30pm yesterday just below Lone Pine Lake that shows a fair amount of snow...trying to post it from the Hostel here...
