I was up there on Thursday (last day of April), the lower gate on Whitney Portal Road was still closed. I don't have any insider knowledge, but my sense is they are not in a rush to open up the Portal area. All campgrounds on the Inyo NF are hard closures (concrete barricades), and the Alabama Hills area (BLM) is shut down to all camping and day use.
There is another little heatwave coming this week, I'm sure whatever didn't slide last week will slide this week. The instability up high is pretty spooky for this time of year.
