This is the time of year when people start asking for snow and trail conditions reports. I have nothing to report. Because I am a car-free person, and therefore dependent on trains and transit for getting to the wilderness, and my travel is not essential, I haven’t been up in the Granite Chief area this season, and won’t be for a while. Of course I will walk there if I must (from Sacramento), but that is a five day trip just to get up to the area, and so I won’t have anything to say until the middle of June, at best.
But… I hope that others will report snow and trail conditions. So if you are a reader of this blog, and get up to the wilderness, or even the approach trails, please leave a note here to help others out with trip planning.
Granite Chief Wilderness 
Just returned from a trip this weekend. Entered 6/12 on Five Lakes Trail, went up to Bear Pen via Whiskey Creek Camp, scrambled out of East face of Bear Pen up to PCT, returned to Five Lakes by PCT. All trails were snow free save for the PCT which had easily avoidable or traversable patches remaining on North/East facing slopes and shaded forested sections. (We used hiking sticks, no microspikes.)