I went up Longs Peak yesterday on the Keyhole Route. Starting near the entrance to the Trough there is snow. In the Trough snow can either be avoided by staying on rocks, or traveled through. I put on micro spikes so I mostly stayed in the snow. Probably a little bit of thawing of the recent snow has put a small amount of ice in places. I went up the left side of the crux, at the top of the Trough because the bottom of the right side was iced up, this was early morning. Beyond the Trough, the Narrows didn't have any snow but did have minor frozen over puddles and pools of water. Upper Narrows area and the Homestretch were dry dry dry. There weren't very many people on the mountain and I had the summit to myself, about 9:15 am. A flight for life helicopter spent quite a while in Glacier Gorge early in the morning.
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