johnnash
New member
This was our 3rd full day skiing Breck. Weather conditions last 2 days have been miserable (Sunday it was the temp, yesterday it was gale-force winds, which closed a lot of lifts and created huge lift lines), but surface conditions have been good. Today, the surfaces were showing the effects of yesterday's winds, with a lot of scouring and wind-affected snow. But still, conditions in most places were fine, especially runs surrounded by trees, like those off the 6 Chair. Unfortunately, the Imperial Bowl has been closed, due to a slide. There was a lot of chatter on TGR about this, with people claiming to have inside connections disagreeing about whether it was triggered or not. Well, MY inside source (I rode up the lift with the son of a patrol) says it was not triggered. In all in the last few days, there have been 4 in-bounds slides, 2 triggered and 2 not. No one hurt. I took one of the pix below when there was good light, but the 6 Chair was not open, so I had to take it from Peak 9, and the Bowl is pretty distant. Still, you can see the slide line near the top of the peak, and the debris field below. It took out a good part of the Bowl. And the wind has scoured some of the Bowl that wasn't affected by the avi. So, I wonder when they'll be able to re-open. Probably not until quite a bit more snow. The other picture was taken from the hut at the top of the 6 chair and bottom of Imperial, after they opened the 6 chair. The light was bad, and I just had my cell phone so the quality sucks, but you can get a better view of the debris field a least. The last picture shows a neighboring peak that got the snow completly scoured off. Fortunately, nothing in Breck was that bad!
