Anyone know how the winds the past few days affected anything?
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Anyone know how the winds the past few days affected anything?
Anyone make it up there today. Thinking of heading up for a few laps in the morning is there's still some goodness to be found.
Past 3 days have been really nice and there is some more left to be had. I spent thursday and friday on HHA and the continental divide which was great but is probably pretty tracked out now unless your trying to get gnarly. Today i was in the current creek area and by the end of the day it had a few tracks but not many. Lots of the south facing slopes got a little heavy by the end of the day cause of the sun but in the trees and on north/east aspects the snow is still great, and there should be some more snow coming in tonight also. Early next week looks good.
Soooo I'm a gaper and left my skis up there today, if anyone found some hit me up and I'll trade you a bunch or beer!!!
SterlingSpikeDancer is going to take a look in the am (thanks buddy!) but if anyone stumbled over them today please contact me they're my only sticks!!
Found some good snow in Current Creek yesterday. It snowed fairly hard the whole time we were out though the winds were picking up pretty well above treeline around lunchtime when we took off. I would imagine that the next couple of days will be pretty nice on leeward aspects below treeline. No pics cuz the light was so flat all day, but I can assure you that there were plenty pockets that one could easily milk for faceshots.
Video from this past weekend. Was really fun. Sorry for the shitty quality im still trying to figure out the best way to compress the video and make the quality better.
I also don't know how to embed videos so here is the url if your interested, the video is two runs, first a line off hollywood cliff and then skiers left X chute:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_DO5E4f6LE"]YouTube - Berthoud Pass[/nomedia].
Im using a contour and if anyone has any hints as to the best system for making edits and compressing the video i would appreciate the help. Thanks!
Dolson's Vid
Put all the letters after the "=" sign in the youtube address in between "youtube" "/youtube" tags. Your letters are "q_DO5E4f6LE"
A little late to the party, but 110s area was nice Sunday afternoon. Little crusty underneath on the S facing upper 110s but much softer on the SE and E facing aspects off the nose.
Now I just gotta figure out how to make it look steeper - tilting the camera isn't an option when shooting down slope.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/...e7f9b38e_z.jpg
Contour has a battery latch issue which makes it hard to upload or charge it.... So the GoPro is gone? Fuck man.....I hit that triple rock pillow line on Friday and took it like 40 feet to flat and my contour went for a ride. I didnt think there was a chance in hell i would find it but thank god it appeared after 20 minutes of shoveling out my bomb hole! haha
haha that one guy did warn you about the flat spot tho... :wink:
but no I didn't lose the gopro, luckily it was on a traverse so I was able to see it and recover it.
So, how's it looking after the last couple days' high temps? Considering going up tomorrow.
BigKuba I am planning on being up there tomorrow too. Solo at this point so would be down to meet up with anyone. Not sure if I want to leave before the I-70 traffic or late and after it dies down. But regardless will be up there, black mountain hardwear softshell pants and a black softshell jacket, Solomon Rockers/Dukes in a silver jet with a change for a nickel sticker on the pod. oh and hauntingly deep brown eyes
It is totally tracked out, I wouldn't bother. It's going to be a total shitshow especially with it being a holiday weekend. Do yourself a favor and watch football all weekend.
Totally forgot that it's a holiday weekend. My previous job had a tight grip on my balls and ski schedule but was image-conscious enough to give MLK Day off. This year, it completely flew over my head.
Don't have TV else I'd be watching football and getting drunk on the couch... which is exactly why I don't have TV.
If we ski tomorrow, it will be after the I-70 morning traffic.
Anyone know in particular where the slide activity was? From CAIC:
"On Thursday there was a human triggered avalanche on a southeast facing slope near treeline on Berthoud Pass. The side was about a foot deep and less than 100 feet wide. Avalanche workers in the area also triggered avalanches with explosives on northeast and east facing above treeline slopes. These avalanches are wind slabs running on buried surface hoar."
well I dont know if I can change my eye color by tomorrow. But I'll probably still be up there even if it is tracked out a bit there will be less crowds then breck
Dane, love the vid, that was a great line. Where/what run was that?
First run i think is called lift gully? The pitch right next to that big cliff band on the other side of the road from the parking lot. Second clip is in current creek on the skiers left X chute of XYZ. Hard to explain since i really dont know the zones all that well but we will have to ski soon and share the goodies...
Skied a few runs in HHF and Floral Park today. 3-4" new, Floral was quite nice and reasonably soft underneath, HHF wasn't quite as good.
Heading up tomorrow be ther from about 10 till 3 ask for change if you like.
I may head up late too. Looking to ski with someone. Blue Honda CRV grey jacket and helmet. Ask for change.
Out early today. Very busy when we wrapped things, but damn I was pleasantly surprised at the snow conditions. 6inches of blown in pow, nice temps and just a whisp of wind.
I seriously gotta find someone to tour with tomorrow. It's gonna be great. Anyone heading up from north or broomfield area? I can drive. Cameron Pass was great today BTW.
Soylent - where'd you ski at CP today? Much new snow? We were there yesterday and good ski conditions were somewhat "elusive."
We skied Tasters Choice a bunch. It was fun! Blown in nicely. Not much new. 3ish?
Looking at the forecast it seems like tuesday could be really good up there. Im planning on going for sure. However, looking at the Doppler on NOAA i dont see how they are expecting 6 to 10 inches today but i hope their right!
Big changes in Temperature + major windloading = keep your eyes open.
^^Ummm....yeah. It was windy today. Pass closed around 11:30.
I didn't realize I was chatting with mags at the CC lot until I noticed the bros. We didn't get off the pass until around 1PM, it was puking snow up there.
We skied two runs up in CC and although I couldn't see shit because of the blowing snow, the turns felt great. Our skin track had completely disappeared after our first run as well as any tracks from the days before. Tomorrow is going to be good, but too bad I have class from 9-4. Stay safe up there.
Yeah I heard about missing boarder also. I was one of the last to leave the main parking lot. Only 2 or 3 cars left after my car and 2 others left about the same time. Hope the boarder is ok. CDOT was being super cool about getting us out of there. They are good peeps. Hope I can go up again tomorrow when it opens.