Snow was all the way down to parking lot when we arrived - icy on the black top.
Crampons needed from 1/3 the way up register ridge until we came all the way back around to Ski Hut - extremely icy on the upper ridge area below Harwood - ran across soft snow, iced over snow, ice under the snow and some drifts that we post holed through.
Not a cloud in the sky when we started, stayed sunny all day until we hit the last saddle on the south end of the ridge over the south end of the bowl, cloudy pea soup misty stuff had been pushing in from the San Gabriel Valley, Upland area all morning, from the minute we dropped below the rim of the bowl it snowed all the way to the car, not thick, just that fine drifty wet snow that puts small layer over everything.
Winter conditions can be found out there, upper part of the bowl was getting sunshine all morning so there's patches of dirt showing, thus some rock fall - one more good storm and we should be good to start hitting the bowl
Pictures here
