Knoblock of course is a wonderful peak that I've climbed many times. Yesterday, being a nippy bluebird day, the views did not disappoint. The 2h45 traverse to Tripod was OK, nothing more. The woods were mostly open with several thick sections we plowed through. There were a number of horrendously thick sections with major blowdown and thick new growth but we were able to deviate around all of those without adding much distance overall. There were long stretches of very open woods with tons of "pick-up stick" blowdown lying flat. Snow cover was 1-2 feet in many places and none in many others. We wore spikes all day (did not carry snowshoes). The spikes gave us beneficial traction but on the frozen and littered ground often made us stagger somewhat. Had the snow not been rock-solid supportive the hike would have been a good deal tougher. We knew it would be so because of the low temps. No snow at all the entire way up KL but plenty on our way to Tripod. We saw no other hikers all day, due to no winter credit for Tripod I guess. My 2nd time on Tripod (only need 10 now to complete the grid) , hard to say where the highest point is but we think we found it. The woods on the way out were very fast. We followed a 70 deg mag bearing the entire way down Tripod so as to come out at our cars on 9N. I probably checked the compass every minute - same on the way over from KL - because the terrain was almost featureless and the views limited. Although without using the phone mapping which I checked every 20 minutes or so, we could have used Green and the lay of the land for navigation. Also, coming down Tripod we frequently had views of Hurricane. Some time ago I did a traverse from Knoblock to Hopkins so we must have gone across my route. Yesterday I wondered how the heck I navigated safely off of Knoblock, which is very cliffy on the south side.