The N. Fork Teanaway road is now open to about 1 mile from Beverly Campground and it is melting out fast. Continuous snow still starts at the trailhead.
I spent the night on top of Earl Peak in perfect weather. 10 skiers and a party of 25 mountaineers taking a scrambling course visited the summit on Saturday. Hot weather with a faint breeze.
The snow was soft and the going was slow, but most of the rocky ridges have melted free and make for fine scrambling. I saw some huge moats near some of them.
SE-facing slopes were very unstable. Every snowball I threw started a point-release slide maybe an inch in depth -- which I think is relatively new snow. Other slopes seemed stable.
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