Bottom Line Up Front: It is too early in the season to do these trails.
The Forest Service road up to Lake Blanca is still blocked by a washout 1/4 mile before the turnoff. It seems to have been flattened out a bit recently, perhaps some jeeps have been through. I parked at the washout around 7AM, and It was fairly easy to wheel my mountain bike across the washout. I then biked the roughly 3 miles to the Pass Creek/North Fork Skykomish trailhead.
On the way up I took the Pass Creek fork. On the first crossing, I was able to scramble across a log a little ways downstream.
The second crossing was a mid-thigh ford through fast/cold water. Thankfully a few strides gets you across.
After the second crossing, the trail is snow covered up to the junction with the PCT. I arrived there around noon, and took a lunch break.
The PCT between Pass Creek and Dishpan Gap is 90% snow covered. It took 6 hours to cover that 6 mile section. Although the snow usually would support my weight, I would occasionally post-hole to my waist. Since the trail is not visible, I had to navigate between occasional glimpses of the trail.
At Dishpan Gap (7PM), I headed down the North Fork Skykomish trail. Or in the vicinity of that trail, as there was no sign of it below the snowpack. Once the trail showed up at lower elevation, it was submerged in all the snow melt.
I had overnight gear, but decided to press on to lower elevations and ultimately arrived back at the washout around 1AM.
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