Recent parties made a lot of nice steps in the unconsolidated snow which made travel easier. All the constrictions but the last were dry. Personally found the last dry step to be trickier than the WI3-(?) "crux" at the top. The snow on the upper part of the route didn't seem deep enough to slide, lots of rocks poking out (just my opinion and may change soon). I wasn't particularly worried about the snow at the base either. Just that one often-traveled slope on the way to Chasm Lake made me a little nervous. Descended by boulder hopping down the west side of the north ridge (east side had weird snow made walking hard).
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