We outline the recent in situ radio observations obtained by Ulysses during its second fast latitude scan near the 2001 solar maximum. From ∼ 72° N, Ulysses was embedded in a continuous fast wind associated with a northern polar coronal hole. During that period, we enlight the variation of the electron density and thermal temperature with the heliocentric distance and latitude, obtained with the quasi‐thermal noise spectroscopy method. Since the scaled mass flux is observed roughly constant, we derive the profile of the electron thermal temperature, assuming a simple power‐law model. Indeed, we find that the electron density varies asR−2.0±0.1while the thermal temperature varies asR−0.7±0.1, in good agreement with the results obtained in polar coronal holes in 1995 near solar minimum. © 2003 American Institute of Physics