The trailhead is closed. Closure is just a little over one mile, right at the Mennonite Camp. I started at 4:15am and walked to the trailhead, then proceeded up the Crags trail, and made the junction to the Devils Playground trail. Route finding was easy. There is minimal snow on the ground for the first 2 miles along the trail, and it was firm but not widespread enough to skin. After clearing treeline one could skin if one desires. I chose to stay in boots and ascend the ridge, as snow was firm. Once traversed to the Devil's Playground at the highway, I transitioned to skins and continued across the ridge towards the Summit. Only once did I have to unstrap and walk across a section of no snow before regaining snow again and continuing on. I transitioned to boots to climb up to Summit. The climb was only a few hundred feet up to the Summit. From treeline across to Summit the wind was steady, and I was glad I had worn my layers. I reached the Summit at 10:28am.

I inspected various entrances and chose one to drop in on. I believe it is a chute of the Y Couloir, but I'm not that familiar with the mountain. The snow on all entrances was wind affected and firm, but not bulletproof. I dropped in at 11:19am and made cautious turns for the first few hundred feet. As expected I cliffed out just past the car in the couloir. I unstrapped and transitioned to boots, then made a cautious descent of about 20 feet down through the rocks and safely reached the snow beneath the cliffs. I strapped back in and began the ride of the rest of the couloir. The snow immediately below the cliff was vastly different from right above the cliffs, and quite soft and slushy, making for the best turns of the line for several hundred feet. Then the remainder of the snow down to the Bottomless Pit was slightly firmer but still somewhat soft. I stopped about 200 feet before reaching the Bottomless Pit because there were many boulders in the couloir and it didn't seem necessary to ride through the mine field, after I had already gotten over 2,000 vertical on the line.

At 12:08pm I began my ascent back up deciding to try a different route out of the North face. I ascended up a different couloir and found a snow band across to the West which led me back up to the ridge several hundred feet below the Summit. The snow was mostly firm and boot packing went well. I reached the top of ridge at 3:00pm. The wind had grown more intense and was steady and relentless gusting about 40 miles an hour. The miles back across the ridge to Devil's Playground were a mix of riding, and walking, though I could have skinned, but didn't want to spend time on transitions. From Devil's Playground I traversed back across to the snow above the West side which I had approached from and got another ride in. I rode about 1,000 vertical feet down on decent snow which was firm and wind affected on the ridge, but grew very soft and slushy towards treeline. I transitioned to boots, regained the Devil's Playground trail and began the hike down. I walked back through the forrest until the Crags trail, and then the Crag's trailhead and down the road to the closure. I reached the closure where I was parked at 6:25pm. It was 14 hours round trip, 16.51 miles, and 7200 vertical feet.

Conclusion: snow is rough on entrance to any line you choose, though if it warms the snow could soften up perhaps. No line is contiguous from Summit to the Bottomless Pit, all lines have a cliff section, or are peppered with rocks near entrance off Summit. Do your homework and know what route you plan to ride so you can choose your entrance off Summit. Be prepared with an ice axe and crampons, maybe even some rope, harness, and rappel gear, etc.