Crossover path to Herdman

Attempt on Herdman from Crossover path. The wind was moderate to strong most of the afternoon around tree line into the alpine with a considerable amount of snow transport. The amount of snow and wind was higher than expected and variable. Visibility was pretty bad and all of that made travel difficult. We saw another group come down the Banana (NRC approach). They looked like they had a decent run down, but they also mentioned it was wind pressed. Those tracks were mostly blown out and buried by the time we went down. Coming from the top looked like a better approach today, albeit the lack of visibility. We didn't see many signs of reactivity except some shooting cracks near the top of the crossover. At that point it was snowing 3 to 4 cm per hour (around 2pm) The snow was nice below 2000m without much wind effect.