About 6 cars at the trailhead at 3:00 on a beautiful Saturday. Only about a half mile of the trail was snowfree before hitting massive snow cover totally covering Bean Creek. The snow has caused several avalanches that have knocked many trees over throughout the route. We walked across the creek on snow then over mixed snow and open trail all the way up to the headwater basin. Here, most everything was still snow covered. We climbed up to the eastern ridge crest on snow and loose, wet rock to get the nice Stuart and Enchantment views on one side and Rainier and Adams to the other. It was an easy glissade down, but care is needed to make sure no broken legs occur. It doesn't look like the snow will melt out of this area till at least mid-July.
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