Funny how washington climbers without fail head for the SGH since it's the only decent Hood route in Nelson/Potterfield Now with Yocum in the new edition that will be the only other route WA's do now.
As for skis, I skied the old chute that day, it wasn't worth it . I got up there too early, got bored waiting for the sun to finally do some work, so it was a bulletproof affair with atrocious runout. Bringing skis to the saddle at least, however, is mandatory. Nice work.