This picture is from about 9,000 feet on the N-NE face of Steam Mill Peak. There was about 35 cm of soft snow bonded well to a melt-freeze crust. The surface of the snow was damp, but if you kept going along the ridge and switched aspects to due north the snow was still dry at about 4 pm. I would expect that the snow stayed dry through the rest of the day on N maybe even NW facing slopes above around 7,500 ft.