Ptarmigan Traverse?

[sverdina]

Anybody done it recently? Are conditions such that one can reasonably expect to get through it in 4 days and bag some peaks along the way? Too late for this season?

[John Frieh]

As of last Tuesday the snow line was itswoot ridge coming in from the dome side. There was an average (much deeper in some places) of a foot of snow before one even got on the Dome glacier... I think the fresh snow will seriously slow you down to the point that you might make it in 4 days but you will be doing some serious slogging and probably not much climbing…