Right now it varies from chute to chute. I had a friend fall on a shoot and it was pure ice, my line was pretty fun until I dropped a 20 footer to flat/hard snow, and another friend take the 3rd or 4th chute skiers right in and had one of the best runs of his life. Avy danger isn't high but I managed so set a good slough off. I went up from grizzly and I definitely wouldn't recommend boot packing. Skin or snowshoe for sure.