My 13-year-old son and I did a one-day climb of Abernathy, making the summit in just under five hours from the trailhead and doing a little fishing at Scatter Lake on the way back. The trail is in great shape with only two or three blowdowns about a mile from the lake. The lake basin still has a few small patches of snow. The scramble route up Abernathy is straightforward. The weather was variable, but the views were fantastic!
We ascended via the snowfields on the more open face just to the right of summit, but it might actually be easier to take the gully to the left. I'd guess the ascent route was 30% snow.
Note that Greentrails says the trail to the lake is 4.7 miles, which makes a roundtrip hike to the lake more like 9.5 miles (rather than the 8.5 miles that WTA indicates). Based on our pace and time, I think the longer distance is correct. From the lake it's maybe a mile and 1,300 feet of climbing to obtain the summit.
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