Paul Turner said

 
Attached is the GPX file from yesterday's outing. I stayed off the ridge and Knob due to paranoia about the weather. I saw one short (30') piece of what might have been trail bench coming off Schreiner - I think in general the trail to Schreiner is gone. Google Earth has imagery of the area from July of this year for this area so you might want to load the GPX file in there. I'll post a report somewhere.
 
I did follow the short piece of the Janus Butte Trail that runs down to Elk Lake Creek - did not cross to see what is on the other side.

We were considering doing a shuttle, going in from Pansy, then over to Schriener and then down Pine Cone Creek to Elk Lake Creek, but weren't sure how easy that would be.  It is a LONG ways down from the peak.  (3000'?).

How easy was that route?  I was thinking that with the fire even if the trail was gone, it should be pretty easy going - all the underbrush should be gone.  I kind of thought that it might be easy to see the old route since all the brush is gone, but I guess not. 

That new imagery from Google is certainly clear - you can actually see tree limbs!  How do you know it was taken in July of this year?  You can tell it is relatively recent since it shows the burned areas, but I was just curious where you saw the date.

Thanks for the track.