Thursday, I hiked the Santanoni range starting around 645. The hike starts with an old forest road that has a couple washouts, but nothing bad. When you get to the trail, the first half mile or so was amazingly good. You see a sign why shortly in, it's the site of active trail crew work, so I expect this trail to get better over the year. Overall, the marked trail is easy to moderate. The only really bad spot is the half mile before you reach the Santanoni herd path where you're rock hopping up a stream.
So my next trip is going to involve camping and forming a base camp to hit a total of 8 mountains.... well, actually, potentially forming 3 base camps. This is to hit everything that comes out of the Upper Works/Tahawas area of the park. The plan is to hike in to the flowed lands or lake Colden and set up camp.