Beautiful pictures. Out of curiosity: there seem to be some skiable "patches", any reason not to ski a little?
We considered it, but decided not to for a few reasons. It would've been only about ~1k feet of skiable descent for a 5.2k climb. One of my partners is a Baker guide and hadn't gotten a solid refreeze all week, so we figured we'd have to be skiing down between 7 to 9 am to get decent snow. That would've been tricky, since we didn't roll into Washington Pass until midnight Friday night and most groups take 7-10 hours on the up (we ended up around 7.5-8).
But also, part of the route looked like this: