@IdEaMaNi: On Saturday, we hiked to trail camp, we had a clear blue sky all the way. However on Sunday, it was cloudy and when we were 3/4 up the chute, it started to snow pretty intensely. When we made it to trail crest, there was already half an inch of snow and the weather was getting worse, so we turned around and didn't summit.
The hike from the trail head all the way to trail camp is not technical. We were very happy with microspikes and trekking poles. For the chute, we were expecting the trail to have switchbacks, but it was going straight up. That section is comparable to a steep blue ski slope. Here, you really need an ice axe and crampons. We used the MSR Lightning Ascent snowshoes instead of crampons and had very good traction all along the chute whether on ice or powder.
