...And I also think OCR14a and FJINCO did bill more in april and had to do some shoveling...
Ya, and actually, it was not April, or even May, but
June....the 19th (
here's my page for that event).
Although things can vary widely from year to year, depending on weather conditions, etc, I can almost guarantee that Bill Moore Lake is impassable right now.
When we went in June last year, it was just getting to the 'possible' point, but was still not passable without a lot of work. We had to do a lot of shoveling and winching to get to the lake.
Even if everyone had their own winch, we still would have had to shovel a lot at some points where the snow drifts caused slanted slopes 4-5' high right over the trail from one side to the other....we cut through them with a tiny shovel too (kind of embarrassing that we both forgot to bring real shovels that time, but we got the job done).
Right now, after all of the snow we've had in recent weeks/months, even though we've had some very recent melty weather, I don't think I'd even want to spend the ga$ to get there and check.
If someone else goes up there to scout it out though, and it's not too crazy, I might be up for a snow bashing day.....just be prepared....we were on the trail for 8 or 9 hours....so, if it's anything worse than when we were there, plan on getting there early and not getting back off trail till after dark (I mean...that is, if you intend to do what we did....which was, agree that we're just going to get to the lake, no matter how long it takes).