Comments: Great route. Lots more photos from a recent climb (July 2 2006) up at http://aster.colorado.edu/trips/kasparov/ Unfortunately we had weather rolling in so we skipped the Rook, Black Knight, and Sceptor. But we'd love to go back and hit them all in style.
When we went down the couloir there was plenty of soft snow, and we slid the whole way down.