A late summer storm put a few inches of snow on the the ridge so fire danger was low.  Went up 4th of July and down the ridge to town.  2" of snow on the top 1000' of the ridge, but everything was rideable. 

The climb is a grunt, but once up top the rolling ridge is in great shape.  Two issues with the trail right now:  1) lots of blowdowns on the ridge (couple dozen from 3000' above town to top);  2) the upper third of 4th of July trail was very overgrown (getting hard to see trail).

took our time ~6.5h for the complete loop with the road start.