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Skiing - Telescope - Camping

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I have found the perfect place for astronomy in my vicinity.
It s 2 hours away by car, probably has the darkest skies in the entirety of Romania and has sub ½arcsecond seeing
(which is the standard for any mountain range outside of Europe, but whatever)
The place is called the Godeanu Mountain.
But there are two problems:
>bears
>winds
and if i think about it the place must be under lots of snow right now
I would like to camp there, possibly in the winter because of better astronomical seeing.
How would you go about achieving such a thing, is camping in winter in such a place a death trap?
My biggest concern are the strong winds, because it will make the mount wobble and there are no pine bushes to use as shelter. Are there any rules for finding shelter around mountain tops, like the shape of the terrain creating spots without wind?