Snow cover the whole way-only a few inches with some ice on the lower section to the river crossing.
The second section after the river crossing we broke trail to the summit, there was probably at least a foot of snow, but it was pretty solid underneath-icy and crunchy in most places. A few downed trees that were a little difficult to skirt around or over, some blue ice sections on the trail too. The snow was never deep enough that we postholed in and having the flexibility of just boots on our feet outweighed using snowshoes. Three snowshoers came up in our footsteps and they weren't convinced they had needed them. I found my poles useful going up and down.