Dirty Harry's Peak — Sunday, May. 1, 2022

Did Dirty Harry's Peak on a nice Sunday - arrived at lot by 7:30 AM and there was still good parking then. Just a few other people on the trail - very muddy up through the Balcony. One blowdown on the lower trail section, but easily climbed over. Trail past the Balcony is also muddy. Intermittent snow patches starting around 3400' near the turnoff to Web Mountain. Intermittent quickly becomes snow covered and then deep snow covered at 4000' and above. Still several feet of snow up there. Surface of the snow was generally pretty slippery. In the trees still compacted firm but definitely slippery in the open areas. Lots of posthole opportunities. I wore spikes which helped, the steep areas in the final 1/2 mile were pretty slippery. I did see one other person doing it in snowshoes and then a handful of others with nothing on their boots. I guess it is doable that way but having the spikes was nice. Summit had almost no views, very cloudy. I went all the way to the end where there's the clump of trees overlooking the cliffs. There was a grouse there waiting for me but other than that, nobody else at the summit. Saw about 10 people heading up to the summit on my way down. As always on a Sunday, the trail below the balcony was packed, counted over 100 hikers coming up, most in very large groups with dogs. I clocked about 8 miles and 3500' of elevation gain.