Each season there's at least one trip where I should have brought snowshoes, but didn't. This was that trip. The road was partially snow covered, but mostly slush. The road up to the Standup Creek trailhead has a ton of waterbars, but nothing blocking the way.
There's a dusting of snow on the trail from the trailhead that gets deeper as the trail goes on. Except the initial creek crossing on a nice bridge, the other crossings are wet affairs. Most have some rocks or logs, but the farther up the trail there's more snow covering the logs making them plenty slick.
After about 2.5 miles and 1,000 feet of gain the snow was about a foot and a half deep and heavy as mashed potatoes. We stopped at this point and returned. We saw no one on the trail or the road.
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