Road to upper trailead is open with some snow still in parking lot. We started hiking Sunday around 11:00am in a light mist with temp around 45 deg. The first mile and a half is basically free of snow with a couple trees across the trail. The next mile and a half up to and around Windy Camp has a fair amount of snow on the ground; in places still three to four feet but trail is easy to find. Between Windy Camp and Silver Lake trail cutoff, trail is harder to find because people have plunged off in several directions trying to find the trail. A short ways past the Silver Lake cutoff, the trail is open up to the summit ridge with one snowny area a couple hundred feet below the summit ridge. The summit ridge itself is free of snow. In classic Mt. Townsend fashion, fog and mist swirled over the ridge with blue sky and the sun breaking through at times. Nice to get warm before heading back down into the mist. Miko

General comment: a glorious day in a beautiful location. Weather: fog and mist until about 500' before the summit and then BLUE SKY with almost no clouds; it was quite warm in the abundant sun. Trail conditions: a few logs over the trail. Companions: Amy, Ish, & Sally.

Still no snow (just a teeny bit at the top, none on the trail at all...),great views the w hole way up. Didn't see any hunters, but took precautions and wore bright clothing anyway (per prior trip reports for this trail). Great trip and great trail!

There’s around a half-dozen blow downs right now, probably the result of the bad weather earlier this month. At this time, there’s very little snow, and the trail is clear all the way to the summit. At this time of year, it’s common to see hunters in this area, and I saw two today. Wear bright colors if you come up here.

With all the reports of snow in the mountains, I wasn't sure if we would actually be able to hike Mount Townsend all the way to the summit. But it turned out that there were only a couple of inches on sections of the trail, particularly around Camp Windy. The sky was completely blue when we set out at 11 a.m., although the heavy cloud bank over Puget Sound began to make its way upwards into the Olympics by the time we reached the summit. Dark clouds alternated with sunshine and while they partially obscured the view to the West, also made it even more dramatic and beautiful. The view to the East was a sea of clouds with a few Cascade peaks (including Baker) standing above them. The summit ridge was completely snow-covered (only a few inches deep. We ate our lunch at the 6280 foot summit, hunkering down out of the wind under some boulders. There was only one hiker up there and he left before we were through. It was wonderful being alone in such a magnificent place. We saw only a few other hikers the whole day, something unusual on Mount Townsend, a popular trail that is usually packed with people. There was much less snow on the trail as we descended; the sunshine had melted it rapidly. I suspect that with the rain predicted for today, all the snow will be gone soon.