Only a couple of snow patches at Windy Camp - other than that trail is snow-free and dry with only two minor blow-downs. The first of the rhodies at the beginning of the trail are starting to bloom. Lots of blossoms of various flowers at the summit. Clouds obscured most of the view except towards the south and down into the valley. Waited an hour for the clouds to clear but they only shifted around.
I find the trail books confusing about the drive to the trail head. Some only talk about the lower trail head, and the ones that talk about the upper trail head reference the numbers of the spur roads off FS 27 - and they're not signed. The Mt Townsend sign at the spur road leading to the lower trail head has been vanadalized to the point where its message is vague. Confused also why the trail books don't just say drive FS 27 to the end of its paved section and take the Mt Townsend spur road there (to the upper trail head).
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