Observe the excellent cornice, dropping into semi-steeps. If you like air, this is a great place to be in late June. The runs here were between 30 and 50 degrees, I'd say black to double-black to oh-hell-no-oh-hell-why-not.
For scale, see the little skier dead center in the photo along the midslope traverse. This was also an excellent cornice drop. Summer ski conditions generally make for very stable snow, even cornices. Did not seen anyone whacking their pole. Wet slides are really your only danger, but it never got that hot when I was there.
From the top, you can see the rollover of about 40 degrees and the poma tower. They had 2 pomas run by a remote generator. The ski office was a Winnebago. My kind of establishment.
Down low the terrain mellowed slightly, if you don't mind high-speed boulder dodging. One of the entrances to the bowl was the thin ribbon of snow you see at the top left of the photo. About 20 feet wide, corn snow, with rocks sticking up. Above, the ribbon connected to a snowfield near a hairpin turn where my car was parked, so this was the morning and post-lunch entrance to the facility. The ribbon dumped down into some very corny untouched snow. See the fresh, wide schusses in the snowfield above the poma tower. Them's mine. All mine! Uuu Ah Ha Ha Ha!
Winter starts in 6 months. Better get in shape.Later,
CT
