Quick report
Road NF17 between Stewart Springs and Deadfall Meadows was passable to low-clearance 2WD vehicles, with just a couple of patches of ice in shady spots, otherwise dry. Started walking in hiking shoes from Deadfall Meadows trailhead (6500') at 930am. Patchy snow coverage, only a few inches deep at most. Ended up walking in shoes until 7500' above Middle Deadfall Lake where I transitioned to skinning. There was maybe only 6" of snow coverage here in flat areas, except on south aspects which were mostly dry. Steeper and shadier west and north aspects below 8000' above Middle Deadfall Lake had <1' of mostly faceted snow covered by a ski-breakable crust of varying thickness (thicker on the more solar aspects). I continued following the general path of the summer trail to the Mt. Eddy summit over the saddle where the Sisson-Callahan trail joins. Snow on and above the saddle was thin, patchy, and wind- and sun-affected. I managed to skin to about 8300' before the snow ran out. Hiked the rest of the way to the Mt. Eddy summit (9000') on the summer trail, which was mostly clear of snow. Most of the south face of Mt. Eddy is dry. Put on boot crampons at the summit and descended about 50' vertical down the northwest ridge of Mt. Eddy to take a look at the north face and dig a snow pit. Snow surfaces were a combination of either wind-packed cold-ish 4F snow or an icy crust where the surface snow had been blown away. The wind-packed snow probably would have skied OK, but the ice didn't look fun, so I returned to the summit and hiked back down the south face. Found a 30deg slope angle north aspect just west of the Sisson-Callahan saddle above the southernmost Upper Deadfall Lake which had 12-18" of soft faceted snow with barely any crust on top. This very short (200' vert) section skied surprisingly well, though I still hit a rock or two. After that, I picked my way back down to my transition point above Middle Deadfall Lake, transitioned back to hiking shoes, and hiked back out to Deadfall Meadows trailhead at 415pm.
Weather
Temperatures between 35F and 45F. Sunny skies, light/no winds at all elevations, except for the occasional breeze on the summit of Mt. Eddy.
Snowpack
Dug a pit at 8950' just below the northwest shoulder of Mt. Eddy. Aspect: NNE, slope angle: 20deg. Total snow depth 50 cm. 0-15 cm: near surface facets, 15-30cm: 1F, 30-35cm: P-to-K crust, 35-50cm: 4F. Couldn't do a proper CT because I couldn't get my Rutschblock cord to cut through the P-K layer. Shovel shears could sometimes separate the 4F layer from the crust, but it seemed pretty well bonded. Shovel shear of the entire column (after chopping my shovel blade through the crust) failed on the NSFs.