Went out to Granite Mountain thinking it would be doable after I did Mailbox Peak earlier last week. I arrived at the TH at 2pm and the parking area was about 90% full. There was snow immediately on the trail but I didn't bother putting on Microspikes until about a half mile into it.
The snow was mostly compact and pretty easy to walk on with Microspikes.
My dog and I went up to about 3800 feet in elevation which was the 2 mile marker. It was totally fine until the boot tracks and snowshoe tracks stopped. At that point I was postholing up to my knees or deeper and that made it pretty difficult and I decided that I wasn't going to get up above the tree line without some serious effort. I turned around and we went back down.
I think it's totally possible to get up there but it would definitely require snowshoes.
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