I took a vehicle tour around the east side of the range to check out access and snow cover. Many south slopes are bare or very thin. Snow still sits in the shade down to about 7000' but it's gone on sunny aspects. Nevertheless, the Upper Two Mile road is still snowpacked and icy right off the highway with patches of bare ground melting through. The La Sal Pass TH is melted down to the dirt, and the road up from there isn't really conducive to snowmobile travel. There's about 6-`10" of snow at the upper Dark Canyon TH at 9000'.
La Sal Pass trailhead (7800').
La Sal Creek crossing.
More snow on the road than in the woods at the lower Dark Canyon trailhead (8900').
Upper Dark Canyon trailhead and the SE face of Mount Peale.
J Chute (about 10,000' at the top), lower South Mountain Glades. Lumpy surface of barely covered talus visible. Very thin snow cover on the approach.
South Mountain Glades.
South faces of the Middle Group. Mount Tukuhnikivatz (12,500') in the back left, and Mount Peale (12,720') in foreground.
