Nice day for a trip up Granite, no rain and nice temperature. Fairly busy day up there, considering the summer route is not yet open. There is a thin finger of snow leftover, going up the ridge (from the tarns). Folks were summiting from a variety of directions, including the rock scramble, cutting across the bowl and rising from beneath the lookout, and a few closely following the summer route (all snow just above the tarns) but going straight up at the ""obvious gully"". I tried that one but didn't have my ice-ax so I skipped the last 50 feet. It's do-able, but depends on your comfort zone. Did a little trail maintenance...collecting numerous pink flags from the winter crowd...A little bear grass and a few paintbrushes and lupine blooming. Peak flowers have several more weeks to wait.
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