Mount Hood Eliot Glacier crossing to Snowdome?

Any recent solid beta or even just baseless speculation on the condition of the Eliot Glacier crossing to ski Snowdome?

In this picture (from July 2 of 2012), would be heading kind of straight up the lower section then angling to the right:



(And no, we're not interested in trying to cross lower through all the really nasty kitty litter via those various informal routes that now substitute for the fairly decent use trail that went through there prior to the November 2006 storm.)