Pictures like this "flatten" the slope. It is crazy steep in this area. As he wrote, the loose gravel above the snow is pretty tough to find places to step where your foot doesn't slide back down:
Once we got off the snow the rock scrambling up sucked. Barely a place to be able to pack your crampons as you keep sliding down the hill. I think this part will get worse everyday as the snow is melting and exposing more rocks. For now, this was only about 150 - 250 feet of intense scrambling
