TL;DR
Day1 Snow TH>Upper Snow Lakes
Day2 Upper Snow Lakes>Leprechaun>Upper Snow Lakes
Day 3 Upper Snow Lakes>Snow TH
Clear skies and no wind. Granite 95% dry to Vivianne. Tricky snow traverse between Vivianne and rebar where I think many people would be happy to have microspikes. Otherwise easy walking to the end of Leprechaun - no postholing.
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Reports coming from hikers we met were that Sunday and Monday were brutally windy and cold in the core. We had a good climb up to Snow Lakes (note our map had 8.5 miles from TH to the end of the lake but we clocked 10.5 on Strava) . The dam was not flooded. Got a great spot for our hammocks up just before the bridge over the lake source. Cold and windy that night with a low around 31F.
Woke up to clear skies and dead calm wind. Headed up to Vivianne. No real challenges with water on the granite. No snow to speak of. Vivianne was beautiful (about 2/3 thawed) and we had sunny skies and very low wind.
Baby goat!
Headed up to the end of Leprechaun. Easy walking. thru the snow. Lake about 1/4 thawed. Decided not to go further. We were pretty gassed out from the climb to Vivianne.
Really nice afternoon back at camp then back to the car the next day.
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