No love for the San Juans

Hearing all these snow totals from berthod and Loveland and Vail is starting to drive me crazy(happens every year). Snow is still very thin in the western san Juans. Last storm had some localized heavy snow but telluride eked out 14 inches during the week. Looks like we are going to be high and dry for at least another week. Toured up by San Barnardo yesterday and was surprised with the lack of snow. Maybe 18inches(good turns on a supportable base). In reality I would not touch the front range or I 70 areas with a ten foot pole but id love some of there snow. Let it fuckin snow dammit.
that is all
deeppo

I know it is such a bummer over here on the Western Slope. I have been down to summit county the last two weekends, one for ice climbing, the other for a cross country ski race and see all of the snow they have. Once I get back to Crested Butte where I have a pass all I see is a couple inches of snow and 4 runs open.

get ready......it's comin

just spent a week in the SanJunas. skied some suuuppper deep tree shots off red Mtn Pass (TR coming). Try the pass, its game on.

Silverton was thin though but should be much better after the Monday storm and even better with this weeknds storm.

Check the forecast for the week coming.

There is a lot of love for the San Juans.

What season are you comparing things to? OK so far.

Lots of snow bad snowpack. Inbound slide on Genevieve(sp?). I dont know that exact details but I heard that it buried one person up to there waste and another up to there shoulders. This was last sunday.
Some pics from skiing the North side of town today!

40" in Silverton....WOW

I've stopped believing Silverton... no matter which storm it is, they always end up with more than anyone else.

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Originally Posted by smmokan

I've stopped believing Silverton... no matter which storm it is, they always end up with more than anyone else.

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location, location, location.

I bet if you mesured the snow in revalation bowl we would have got way more then reported. Telluride almost always under reports. On tuesday they reported 7 inches but there was well over a foot on most of the mountain
I dont have enough experience with silverton but they average probably 40 percent more then tride
deeppo

Well we managed to scrape a few inches hear and there but the 15 day forecast is not good. Looks like it will be bc time. After last year and december I almost forgot about bumps
Deeppo

Silverton update:
Just skied Fri, Sat, Sun. Lots of folks up for the last weekend of unguided. Pretty good skiing, but the mountain is now mostly tracked out. Rope dee dope chutes have about one day of snow left, then you'll have to hike to Billboard to get fresh snow, although it is still good up that high and they were blasting most of the super high terrain. Bottom line- wait until they get another 12+ inches unless you really want to hike and ski the top of the mountain.