The 3 miles from the trailhead to the junction with the Goat Lake Trail is in great shape, no snow, no blowdowns.
I first hiked the 1/4 mile up the Goat Lake Trail to the saddle. There is one step-over blowdown and no snow. Past the saddle, the trail has many feet of snow and it would be an alpine adventure. Stepping out a ways onto the snow at the saddle (it is very safe), you get a great view of Goat Lake below you and Castle mountain across the lake (see the first/cover picture). Just going to here makes for a great hike right now, you get the best of the flowers, no snow, and a great view/lunch spot (6.5 miles total and 2100').
Back at the junction and going up Norse, the first 1/2 mile has a few patches of snow that are easily crossed. Then you hit 4 feet of snow at the ridge that the trail turns up. From here to the ridge line that looks over to Big Crow Basin, I was on snow about 70% of time and was able to pick up the trail for the balance. Gaia warning: Gaia does not show the new trail that runs along the ridge over Big Crow and some of the trail it does show in this portion is not accurate. I have been here before in the winter so was able to feel my way up to the ridge. The ridge was a little dicey, I bushwhacked a little to avoid some slanted snow. The short snow crossing after the ridge was not bad (I didn't use spikes and I am only a 3 out of 10 with snow travel). The last half mile to the summit is mostly south facing and that portion is snow free. But, the last 1/10 mile to the summit is mostly snow, not too steep and not too difficult. I never used spikes, but I did dig me heals in going down in many places. If you haven't been here before, you should have GPS and be pretty competent.
Flowers: The first 2 miles are in forest, you'll see Oregon Grape, lots of wild strawberries, and there must be others. The 3rd mile is the flower show on this trail and it is just starting to light up. It's in the medium burn area, the trees were killed, but the perennials survived and are now spreading and flourishing. There is lots of phlox coming in, lots of brilliant purple violets (some yellow ones too), groundsel, wallflower, paintbrush, penstemons, ballhead waterleaf, some lupine (there are large swaths of lupine plants, with all of the spring rain, this will be a thick field of blue in 2 weeks or so), and many, many more. The 4th mile is in the heavily burned area that was also a thicker forest before the fire. There are wild strawberries, glacier lilies, and some green false hellebore just coming up (always interesting to see the spiraling plant coming out of the ground. The last 1/2 mile to the summit has some really interesting alpine plants coming up, phlox is the main bloomer right now along with some wallflowers. There are some pretty yellow flowers just below the summit (my guess was a type of marsh marigold, but that's not it, it can hard for me to ID the yellow flowers!). A photo album with many of the flowers I saw: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9KrjH2tMoT9HzWbH8
Social distancing: I got there before 6 and had the place to myself for 2 hours. I saw 2 people who passed me going up and 2 people going down. On almost all of the trail there is plenty of room to get 6 or more feet distant.
Reconnaissance photos: 2nd photo is from Norse Peak looking down at Scout Pass, there is lots of snow at the pass and the PCT is snow covered in both directions. 3rd photo is looking down into Big Crow Basin from the ridge trail, again lots of snow, it will be some time before that trail is melted out. 4th photo is the Crystal Mountain Valley and surrounding mountains from Norse.
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