Seconding everything in willhikeforshrooms's trail report for the same day. It's very easy to lose your way in the boulder field up toward Headlee Pass, and there is greater rockfall danger there than for the scramble up to the peak. When we were coming down from the pass, we saw a group in the boulder field knock down a pretty large rock that tumbled down the slope, including across the trail, for several hundred feet before stopping. Fortunately, nobody was in its path, but it could have seriously injured somone. Please take this as a reminder to be careful where you step, and if you do cause a rockfall, keep yelling "Rock!" until it stops moving.
We took the slightly more exposed/scrambly route up the last stretch to the peak, which was fun. Great weather, great views. Roughly 3 hours up and 2.5 hours down (slowed down significantly by getting off-trail in the last part of the boulder field and following a creekbed parallel to the trail for a ways, then having to bushwhack over).
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