I talked to those folks Saturday @ noon. They had come up the chute from the MMWT. After they left, it was just our group (which had come up the MR).
Then, as we were getting ready to leave, some PCTers showed up. As you can see in the photo above, the MMWT group had snow pants, micro-spikes + poles, but the PCTers just had their mini-shorts, trail runners & poles.
I didn't take any photos of the switchbacks, but they looked like they still had snow (ie distinct white lines). I also didn't see any figures coming up.
As for the MR, it was about as good as it gets for true alpine conditions:
