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Started 6:45 and got as far as we could by 1pm. Had to turn back from whiteout conditions and heavy snow. But there were bands of clear sky and the snow was relatively easy to hike in. Lots of wind once you get up to the seismic station. We got about 1000 ft vertical past the station.
With good weather you should be able to summit!
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Climbed the Worm Flows route on 5/2. Beautiful day with clear skies and little to no winds. Started at 3:15AM and summited at 7:45AM. Temps 35F-55F with warm winds coming from the top of the mountain. Icy in the morning, crampons and ice axe strongly recommended. Could only glissade post-10AM once the snow became slushy but had a blast with it coming down. No avalanche signs except some small, old snowboarder/skiier triggered ones but the cornice on the summit is still there and dangerous.
Climbed the Worm Flows route on 5/2. Beautiful day with clear skies and little to no winds. Started at 3:15AM and summited at 7:45AM. Temps 35F-55F with warm winds coming from the top of the mountain. Icy in the morning, crampons and ice axe strongly recommended. Could only glissade post-10AM once the snow became slushy but had a blast with it coming down. Signs of small skier/snowboarder avalanches and the cornice on the summit is still there and dangerous.
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We started the hike around 8:30 AM, which turned out to be a mistake - in retrospect, I wish we had camped the night before and started early. We hit snow almost immediately after the trailhead and switched to skinning. Easily skinned to the edge of the treeline, but by that point the sun had significantly warmed the snow, and it was a total slog trying to skin up slushy snow. This slowed our pace considerably, and eventually we decided to turn around at about 6000ft because continuing to ascend in slush was just too annoying.
We had a fun time skiing down, though it was very slushy the whole way. The best skiing was on the trail in the trees. I assume since it was shaded all day it stayed a little cooler and was better quality. We could ski all the way back to the trailhead, though some parts were very thin. I expect in 1-2 weeks it will be necessary to walk many portions of the trail until getting above the treeline.
We stayed out of avalanche terrain, but there was obvious evidence of some recent avalanches (mostly small). There are some small cornices we saw which haven't failed yet.