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I'm coming out to CO Friday and might make a go of Longs early next week. I did the Keyhole route 5 years ago (in August) and am considering the Loft route this time--any advice on what I should expect with regard to route conditions in late June?

Here is some info from the NPS

http://www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/l ... report.htm

Anyone been up on the diamond yet this year?

I was up at Rocky this past weekend and Longs looked rather snowed in. I've only done the Keyhole routeso I don't know about the others, but it appears that the boulder field-on was covered in the white stuff!

Cool, thanks for the nps link.

The Loft route is melting rapidly, but as of now it's still going to be almost
100% snow from the Chasm Lake cabin to the escape ledges. Above that
basically no snow, except that there is still a good patch on the lower
Homestretch before you meet up with the Keyhole Route. Don't know if
that will be melted out by next week or not, but if not it can be tricky there
as it is somewhat steep with a bad run-out were one to take a fall there.
Personally, I would carry crampons & ax for this route unless I had
confirmation that the snow on the lower Homestretch was gone or
avoidable. On the upper Homestretch, where the Loft/Clarks Arrow route
meets the Keyhole route, there is snow but it is easily avoidable.

anyone have any information regarding snow conditions on the sharkstooth's northeast ridge, spearhead's north ridge(probably wrong aspect for the moment) or the spiral route on notchtop? i'm not convinced a tech route on longs would be the greatest of ideas presently and am curious to what snow conditions look like elsewhere in the park.

jamie