Snow (and a downed tree) currently prevent vehicles from reaching all the way to the upper trailhead, and it was rumored that access to the lower trailhead also had problems. But it's an easy 1-mile road walk from the point where you have to give up driving and park.
The trail is completely snow-covered all the way from the trailhead on up. Rather than follow the (buried) trail as it switchbacks up to Camp Windy, we struck out straight up the steep snow-covered hillside. Conditions were good for kicking in steps, and we made good progress. The top couple inches were only lightly bonded to the snowpack, and in the steepest portions we did set some small pinwheels rolling. Due to clouds we never had any real views, either on the way up or down, or at the summit, but we reached the summit without any problems and in good time. We had lunch at the top, and then plunge-stepped back down the way we came. About 6 hours round-trip, with 3000 feet of gain.
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