Last week I tried to hike the "new" Heartbreak Ridge Trail with mixed, but fun, results. I started from the gravel parking lot just west of the Bonneville Hotsprings main building, then up the dirt road to the increasingly more apparent (but very muddy) use trail to Carpenter Lake. As long as the owners of the hotsprings are willing, this approach is pretty good.
I followed the road past Carpenter Lake then up to where it crests the ridge. Here there's a good use trail immediately to your right that connects to the PCT. This allows you to avoid the road and walk on a nice trail all the Heartbreak Ridge trail turnoff. The Heartbreak Trail up to the notch (or saddle) at 2400' is the same steep haul it always was. But you get a great view of the sheer SE face of Table from the notch.
From the notch, the new trail traverses westward for 1/4 mile then goes up a talus field. There was so much snow at this point that I never found it and instead kicked steps about 800' directly up the S face of Table to the summit ridge. The snow was good & firm for steps with little post-holing.
Looking back downslope gave a good view of Point 2652 which defines the S side of the notch.
The summit ridge itself was a smooth carpet of unblemished snow. If other folks had been up there recently, none of their tracks were apparent.
I hiked west along the ridge and through the trees to the rock cairn (or pile) marking the top of the west ridge trail. The descent was pretty obscured by snow for the first 750' or so but the snow had largely disappeared at 2400'. Below is a view from the west ridge looking east toward the notch and point 2652.
It hadn't been particularly sunny much of the day until I got back to the car - then the clouds evaporated, the sun emerged, and I got to wear sunglasses for the drive home. | 
