I had snowshoes with me, but didn't use them. Not much post holing on higher elevation. Mostly nice consolidated snow, but can get icy. The worst part is halfway to Lone Pine Lake, it's short, probably 0.3 mile, but the trail disappears and you need to take one of the snow paths. Maybe I just had a bad luck, but both ways up and down I was post holing knee deep and even waist deep a few times.
