teleport me to tride! their snowstake is completely buried
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teleport me to tride! their snowstake is completely buried
Loving all this moisture in Denver
So moist and wet.Quote:
Originally Posted by WTF is dat
Silverton and them have had a great past 7 days down thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Summit
is there a specific CO bc thread anywhere? if not, how's the snowpack over 11k' looking? was thinking about heading out in May to take my wife up an easier 14er (Quandary E ridge or something, maybe Elbert), what are the odds that'll be more-or-less continuously in over say the 1st week of May? or could you point me to the appropriate thread if not this one
This is the Colorado everything thread. You're in the right place. But I got nothing for you.
Decent snow up high at winter park today.
Use 14ers.com to figure out snow conditions on those easier 14ers. People post a lot of good beta there.
exactly what I needed tyQuote:
Originally Posted by simple
Depends on if it snows a bunch in April, or if it gets warm and sunny. We lost a lot of snow in March and honestly coverage in the alpine wasn't spectacular to begin with this year thanks to wind. It's really the wetter storms with less wind in March/April that make or break our spring season in the alpine.Quote:
Originally Posted by mbillie1
That said, the base of our snowpack is as strong as I've seen it in 10 years of BC skiing here. So we got that going for us.
Feel free to PM me for beta as your trip gets closer.
thanks man! I will definitely take you up on that.
Well, the bc can wait. Inbounds was fun today. Nice to see winter again.
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Skied silver today at noon...hottest hike of the year for me. Almost took my pants off.
Snow was super wind-affected and grabby but it sort of help that it had been skied by 10 (?) people before us. Props to that crew for not sleeping in until 730am! What happens on a Saturday now...are there 50 people on Buffalo?
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Originally Posted by mbillie1
You'll do fine. Snow pack is still really good. My general take is that the big wind events moved most of that snow into the usual loaded lines and off of the ephemeral lines. So if you're skiing something that's usually good, it will prob be good to great. If you're skiing something that's usually rocky (e.g. Bierstadt) it might be awful. We're in a decent wet pattern right now, so that could all change and you'd have your pick of every low angle teener you can imagine by may. I don't see it getting truly bad by may in any scenario.
thanks man! any other low angle 14ers of note I should be considering? was thinking quandary just because I've skied it so it's easy logistically but always open to advice... sorry all for the temporary thread hijackQuote:
Originally Posted by trogdortheburninator
Big upslope event looms it seems
^^^ need it bad, super dry down on the flat in march, this weeks rain has been a blessing. upslope FTMFW!!!
I think Quandary is a great choice. If we start getting the uplslope cycles, check out bierstadt. For a notch harder, but still pretty moderate, the tuning forks on Torreys or the SE face on Democrat could be good.Quote:
Originally Posted by mbillie1
Biggest dud of the year. bluebird skies and a trace of snow with this winter storm warning.
Dumping graupel/wet snow at Breck. Now lifts are on a lightning hold.
It was raining at the Eldora base today. They may have reported 4" in 24, but it was 0" in 24 by 1030am.
fuck!
Rain in Keystone last night
Graupel ever since but not a lot... lots of wind
Drove to DIA and back today. Heavy graupel in Summit and snow to almost Golden down and back. Hammered on Vail Pass until I got below 9k where it was raining in Vail.
Well that was an April Fool's Front Range Upslope - 1" at Eldora