We did this as a multi night trip with two nights at Lewis Meadow and a day trip to the Lateral Moraine to get a good look at the glacier.
We arrived at the park at 11am on Saturday and had to wait 90 minutes to get in as parking was already full and they were metering the cars going into the park. Once we were let in were lucky to find a parking spot in the main lot.
The trail is in good shape, especially for this time of year.
As others have reported, there are two washouts between the TH and Lewis Meadows. The first is around 8 miles in and there is a log crossing if you do not want to get your feet wet. I figured that my feet would get wet anyway at the second crossing and waded across; it was knee deep for me (I’m 6ft for reference)
The second is shortly after the first and your feet will get wet. It’s a straight forward ford, just following the flagging that’s been setup.
The ladders just before Glacier Meadows is in good shape. The bear carcass is still there and did not smell as bad as we thought it would.
There were a couple of short snow patches just before the lateral moraine, we had micro spikes with us and used them others did not and were fine.
It started snowing sideways shortly after reaching the lateral moraine so we had a quick snack, and abandoned our plan of actually going out on the glacier, though it looks like the path down to the glacier
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