Mt. Conness/Conness Glacier conditions?

[rwadsworth]

Reposting this in the correct forum:

Hello and thanks to all for a very informative and inspiring forum! I am heading to climb Conness/North Peak this weekend and wondered if anyone had any beta on the glacier conditions? Many thanks!

[RoguePhotonic]

I haven't passed by that area yet this year but it's best to assume the glacier is a mess of solid ice with very little soft snow layer on top. Most snow left out here right now is like this.

[KathyW]

I'm probably too late, but I did the scramble up to North Peak last weekend and took some pictures of that area. Here they are:

http://kathywing.smugmug.com/California ... &k=wV8mV5n" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ree]

Hi RoguePhotonic,
We were up at Conness after we met up with you at Mono Pass/Little Lakes Valley.

We came up Conness' south eastern ridge. No snow to speak of, except a token patch near the summit block. On the north slope, there is hard ice coming up from Conness Lakes... where my topo map indicates a glacier. I wouldn't want to touch that. Towards the summit, we ran into a couple coming up from the Saddlebag Lake area, but they didn't use the northern approach.

I hope that helps.