For those that care:
The road to the trailhead is open. Patchy snow to Soap Creek, then nearly solid snow from there on. There are so many trees across the trail it almost seems as if it has been abandoned. Thundershowers on Sat evening. Clouds overnight did not let the snow freeze up, so I opted not to trudge up the soft stuff to Middle Sister this morning and bail. Looks like plenty of snow up there for a while yet.
No real mosquitoes, but you can sense the beast is about to awaken...