What a fun loop on a glorious day! A great mix of runnable trail and technical scrambling.
I was planning to do this the week before but unfortunately got very sick. I was still a little bit sick, but couldn't resist trying this route on the first day of fall.
Conditions were very dewy wherever there were plants, but the rocks were dry. The route from paradise to the Unicorn talus field was very nice and easy to follow. The talus was a bit of a free for all but still very navigable, as was the approach to Foss peak. Descending Foss peak towards Castle, I was attempting to follow the GPS track but found some difficulty as plants seemed to have fully overgrown the trail in some places and it was quite wet to boot. (This resulted in an "involuntary seated glissade" at one point, but thankfully was not too bad...). Between Castle and Pinnacle peaks I am pretty familiar with the terrain and tried to employ some more efficient routefinding, including sticking to a higher trail through the scree towards the west face of pinnacle before linking up with the standard scrambling route. I likewise took what seems to be the more direct approach to Pummer peak, and then the run back to paradise was pretty straightforward. Too bad there was no water though!
All in all a great time and I will definitely be doing this again!