Hiked up Lincoln on the jeep trail. No major snow until the peak itself. We went up from the SE and there was a lot of deep postholing. After summitting we learned that it would have been easier to hike up Lincoln from the NE. This side had a much smaller and less steep snowfield. We went over to Bross with no major issues. We then hiked down from the Cameron Bross saddle down into Cameron Amphitheater. There was a lot of scree and it was fairly stable, we had to zig zag to avoid a number of snowfields. We brought microspikes, but didn't feel like we needed them. Our shoes did get soaked going up Lincoln. Another couple of weeks and these peaks will be essentially snow free.
We had a view of Democrat and there appeared to be continuous snow from the Cameron saddle all the way to the peak. Cameron also still retained quite a bit of snow.
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