For anyone who might care--looks like our posting and readership are pretty minimal at present, wah!
--here's what we encountered this past Saturday 5/31 at Baring:
Road: pretty much melted out to the TH and no major downed trees or other blockages, though do keep an eye out for overhanging or leaning branches and small trunks infringing partway into the road.
Steep forested slope: there's an avalanche which has swept rocks, logs, and snow down onto the abandoned road, just before you get to the stream area which marks the "trail" up the north flank of the south spur of the peak. The blockage on the road itself is no big deal. Because we had a couple of relative novices with us, we didn't take advantage of this potential, brush-bash-avoiding route. I suspect you could just kick steps up the consolidated avalanche debris path for quite a ways. If the snow tongue goes up that high, you may eventually run into the rock band. At that point, you might have to cross the hillside to the left or east to hit the "usual" avalanche gully (the one that's either above or just slightly left of the stream), which at the moment is in good condition and will allow you to just kick on up to the top of the ridge. I can't guarantee what any such sidehill traverse would be like, though, since we didn't go that way. As all this suggests, there is still some snow, even in the stream, "trail," forested sections, but it's mainly confined to the old and new avalanche gullies and to the highest portion of the slope.
Ridge Run: Again, more snow than usual. Otherwise, no difficulties. It looked like a small party had preceded us--hard to tell if it was earlier the same day (though we didn't see definite "out" tracks, so maybe...) or as much as a week earlier...
Steep Snow Slope (to south of ridge): this is the section where, once you encounter the first gnarly prominence, you drop off the ridge to the right or SE, stay below some rock fingers and, then, once past them, turn up through steep open forest to roll over to the bottom of the couloir that leads up between the main and secondary summits. Crampons (and helmets!) are often advisable in this area in early season, because a slide on hard snow can be difficult to arrest until hitting, say, a good-sized tree. We found some hard snow in this area, interspersed with plenty of melted-out tree wells, but managed without crampons. Apparently, the group "ahead" of us had also proceeded without crampons.
Because of our relative novices, and a late start, we didn't get all the way to the couloir, but enjoyed a pleasant lunch in the intermittent sunshine.
So, I have no idea what the at-times challenging snow "step" that leads up and out of the top of the couloir is like. Based on the other snow we did encounter, I expect that the couloir itself would be fairly consolidated and a blast to glissade on the way out.