Arrived at a mostly-empty trailhead around 8:30am. TH bathroom is open and in good condition. The lower trail is in good shape. A couple large blowdowns that are too big to go over, but going around is not too difficult. River crossings are not too challenging right now, and are all melted out, so no sketch snow bridges to worry about.
The snow stars around 4800'. We had spikes but did not use them--snow is fairly soft, but did switch poles for axes. There are a few sections of traversing slopes that are steep enough they were useful, though we may not have been taking the optimal route at that points. Postholing was a constant concern, particular over areas with audible running water below, though we only actually punched through a couple times.
Reached the basin around 11:30am after three hours. Made it to Foggy Lake around noon. It lived up to it's name, we couldn't even see Del Campo. Started back down around 12:30pm, back to the car at 3:30pm.
Comments