Does anyone have experience on early season conditions for Mt. Muir?
I’ve climbed Muir twelve times, three with snow on it. The January 1993 trip was fairly dicey with nearly a foot of fresh snow. I’ve done it twice in April as extra credit after climbing the Mountaineers’ Route. For both April trips, the wind and sun had cleared most of the snow off the summit, so it wasn’t too bad. I’ve always done it with bare boots (no crampons). In April 2014, I was pushing really hard because I had two partners waiting on the Whitney summit. The round trip took two hours.
