any bert beta?

**Rontele** · 12-27-2006, 06:14 PM

anyone been up there in the past couple of days? woolbury and I are considering going up there, but figure it is windblasted like the rest of the FR right now...

any insight would be appreciated.

**cmsummit** · 12-27-2006, 06:37 PM

I was up there yesterday and yes, it's wind-blasted.

We did two runs off the East side down through Mines Trees skier's right of the cliffs and skiers left of Mines #1 & #2. We stayed in the thick of the trees and on the ridge the whole time. We found some good powder in the thicker trees where it didn't get wind hammered. No problem getting out of there down 7 mile traverse.
2nd run down through these trees we ventured a little further skier's left into the steep chutes through the trees, but not all the way out to the cliffs. Sketchy snowpack in these thinner trees where the wind has prevented the snowpack from building and TG has turned the snowpack to shit. Basically found 6"-12" of windbuffed powder on top of 3' of facets. Set off a couple of releases that ran to ground.

Also did a run down through the 90's and that was pretty hammered, both by wind and skier traffic.

**Rontele** · 12-27-2006, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by cmsummit

I was up there yesterday and yes, it's wind-blasted.

We did two runs off the East side down through Mines Trees skier's right of the cliffs and skiers left of Mines #1 & #2. We stayed in the thick of the trees and on the ridge the whole time. We found some good powder in the thicker trees where it didn't get wind hammered. No problem getting out of there down 7 mile traverse.
2nd run down through these trees we ventured a little further skier's left into the steep chutes through the trees, but not all the way out to the cliffs. Sketchy snowpack in these thinner trees where the wind has prevented the snowpack from building and TG has turned the snowpack to shit. Basically found 6"-12" of windbuffed powder on top of 3' of facets. Set off a couple of releases that ran to ground.

Also did a run down through the 90's and that was pretty hammered, both by wind and skier traffic.

Thanks for betage!