If you know when to stop, that's great. Good luck and be safe.
I've never been up there, but when you first proposed this trip, I looked at SP's page on Peale and read:
"Late spring and early summer will require an ice axe and crampons for ascent and safety. The main route ascends a couloir for 1300 ft that retains snow into summer months. The conditions of this couloir vary from year-to-year and day-to-day during early late spring and early summer."
Perhaps that is just a throw-away statement. Maybe the couloir route isn't necessary; but I got the impression that this wasn't a "gimme" summit in snow.
But then I think of my 2nd snow climb when I was 16. The route was supposed to require axe and crampons, and I had a ski pole and wore blue jeans. I passed a roped group on descent. I had a $25 sewn-through down bag, put my down jacket over me when I went to bed, and still froze at night. And I was very, very, very, very lucky.
Consider this picture:
http://www.summitpost.org/image/117272/ ... cts-a.html
and what is happening on Hood right now.