Not much to report. I did this exact hike last Wednesday. Neither Ken nor Carl had been on the Change Creek Trail before so I showed them the semi-hidden trail head and up we went.
There was a little snow up there today (see above) but not a problem at all.
A fun outing and, as always, a nice workout since the trail is fairly steep.
The sign, by the way, says ‘MMM Ridge’. It’s new; there used to be a sign for J’s Landing. If you go past J’s Landing, where we turned around, you can bushwhack up to the service roads and from there a further bushwhack will land you on the summit of Mid Mother Mountain, also known (more poetically) as Songbird Peak. I will try it out when the snows are gone.