Getting there: easy enough. The trail: Well I haven't gotten out much lately and I may not have picked the greatest day to head out... but head out I did! I did the old si trail and didn't hit snow until around 3,500'. It rainied the entire trip until I got to this point, when it finally turned to snow. The wind was out of control once on the ridge and really out of control in the basin. The wind must have been gusting to at least 40 mph driving snow into every exposed crevice of my body (not too pleasant). I hiked up in a caplilene top with my ""sped jacket"" (a very old nylon wind breaker whose zipper no longer works). Well I hiked across the arctic blizzard to get below the summit rocks but that was as far as I got. My elbows were frozen into place and there weren't any protected places where I could dig out some warmer clothes (not to mention it wouldn't have mattered because I wasn't going to get any warmer no matter what I put on!) So I contemplated summiting for about three and a half seconds before beginning the descent. There is 2-3 feet of snow in the summit basin in places but bare in others due to the horrific winds (I hope those poor bunny rabbits that live up there have found an adequate place to winter because I think things could get ugly up there this year!) Sorry I wrote about mt. si I know it is not too interesting but I thought maybe the snow information might be useful (by the way there were a couple of small trees across the trail but nothing to get bent out of shape about!) Take care! See ya on the trail, Pilar!