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Here's how it looked from the road Saturday afternoon:

As of last Friday, none. All bets are off this week...

If you get the $5 guidebook, make sure you're looking at the correct topo when you read the route descriptions. All the topos list routes "1-9", but sometimes the descriptions are for the topos on following pages. I went up a really hard 5.6 3-pitch route, only to find it was 5.9+ on the following page. Wrong #6. Fun! Also, go for a swim in Whistle Lake when your'e done. Good cliff diving...

I did that a couple of weekends ago, it was super fun and easy The bees are in the woods about 1/4 mile after you pass the mysterious 4x4 post with no sign.

It looks like there is an ongoing study of four glaciers in the North Cascades: Noisy Glacier on Bacon Peak, Silver Glacier on Mount Spickard, North Klawatti Glacier on Primus Peak, and Sandalee Glacier on McGregor Mountain. (m w.e. = meters of water equivalent, i.e. volume) One more link you may find interesting - a summary of surveys of several glaciers from the 1940's to the 1990's: (PDF)