Here’s an update on the trail con­di­tions in and around Black Moun­tain, as well as the Cypress to Holly­burn sec­tion, from Knee Knacker vet­eran Darren Lauscher (9-time finisher):

Just wanted to pass on a trail update about Black Mtn. A group of us did it last Sunday and the snow level is rapidly decreas­ing. Snow from fur­ther in the tree line at the bluff onwards to halfway down into the bowl. The only area of con­cern is the scree slope and boul­der field as some­one has flagged it as a straight line up both fields as opposed to the trail which is a zig zag. The boul­der field one is par­tic­u­larly nasty now at the top of it because of this wear on it. Oth­er­wise the Cypress to Holly­burn is pretty good with some snow but rapidly clear­ing, still very knarly. Some­one has been work­ing on dif­fer­ent parts of the chute so its pretty decent. Haven’t encoun­tered any blow downs to crawl over yet and don’t expect to.