Every year is different, we've hiked up the trail 3 or 4 times that particular weekend and have been in the Sierra mid-October and later a bunch.
There has been snow on the trail that made the Trailside Meadow to Consultation Lake section of the trail pucker dangerous...twice. We've walked on Lone Pine Lake once. We have seen a monster storm roll in at Trail Camp but on the return Whitney Portal the conditions could not have been calmer.
It's a fun time, if you don't put yourself in the jackpot.
