I went up last Wed/Thursday - parked at the road closed sign, hiked the 3.5 miles up the road which was 90% clear, a few snow/ice spots but no need for snowshoes or crampons. At the trailhead someone with ski's put down a perfect packed down trail path along the normal path to follow and the trail was in great conditions, went up without crampons but came back down with crampons so I didn't slip. I decided to take the main trail which continued to be in really nice condition until near Lone Pine Lake when I started postholing all over. I put on the snowshoes but it didn't help as much as I would have liked. I decided to camp there and came down the next day, and will try again this week on the mountaineer trail. I did go up the North Fork path a bit on my way down to check it out and it also looks good. Enjoy, really nice conditions.
