In reply to morpcat:
Yes, fantastic day out - thanks! Up CMD, down tourist path.
There was snow lying around, but none of it on the ridge. The only white stuff we had to cross was on the summit plateau and a couple of patches on the way down the tourist path, so it was fine in trainers.
We considered doing ledge route, until we saw how much snow there was in #5 Gully! Probably fine, as I think the easy variation only crosses the gully briefly, but we didn't fancy going all the way up to find out.