Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[hawkgt]

Last few laps at dora where dumping, warm storm start, fucked roads down to 93. Upslope

[stfu&gbtw]

Went straight to snow at WP this afternoon. Didn't help. Snow conditions sucked. Lots of refrozen breakable crust. Finally just ducked the rope to poach the trees south of Zephyr, which were pretty good. Man, I fucking hate WP/MJ, but I'll plan to see you guys on the 14th.

[simple]

Sorry about the Monday powder day desk jockeys.

[Danno]

At close to $100 to ski Vail or Breck or Keystone? Not exactly a benefit for most of us.

Yeah, I think CBMR passholders got screwed on this one.

[Danno]

WP snowstake is looking good.

Can't believe that Eldo STILL doesn't have a snowstake cam. But I shouldn't be surprised.

Wish I could get out tmw, this week is my last week of being completely chained to a desk, I should have more freedom starting next week. Come on spring storms!

[Foggy_Goggles]

Sorry about the Monday powder day desk jockeys.

I feel like this is my first weekday pow skiing of the year. Work can get fucked 'till about noon. I think the lift line will be packed with overworked locals. Spring Break !!!

[wolfelot]

Oooooof the FOMO in this desk jockey is strong today. WP drake shows almost a foot.

[Underoos]

If anyone skiing the Jane this morning finds a 4 year old wearing a cape and wallowing in the snow, please deposit him at C lot as I have likely ditched him.

Lunch Cock bloodies at 1030.

[Underoos]

829am. C lot full.

[Danno]

Damn. Monday is the new Saturday. At least on a pow day.

[Name Redacted]

Damn. Monday is the new Saturday. At least on a pow day.

Brace yourself for it to be....."Ikonic™"

[skiracer88_00]

At close to $100 to ski Vail or Breck or Keystone? Not exactly a benefit for most of us. Other Epic resorts that might have appeal, like Telluride, have 0 benefits for CBMR pass holders. Besides, the storms that miss CBMR but do hit Summit cty or Vail are usually big storms in Irwin, so I might as well ski backcountry.



Very possible, and to be sure, many of the complaints I listed are the general consensus, not necessarily mine. I just hope that your 10-20% shows up on random mid week days in January when it's dead, not on weekends, holidays, and pow days when we already have crowds. Or at least the CB version of them.



I don't know. Other than an increase in the number of beers, burgers, and management fees (since CBMR doesn't own any hotels), I actually think they'll sell fewer passes. Plenty of locals only ski ~10 days a year, so why not get an Epic pass, mix things up with a weekend or 2 in Telluride, maybe ski Breck when your kid has a hockey game up there, maybe a big trip to Whistler, etc. Who knows, maybe the deal included cash from Vail, that's the only way the deal would actually make any sense.

I believe that vail resorts pays each partner resort on a per skier day basis. For example, I think it has been tossed around that A-Basin gets $10 per skier day on a VR pass. I would assume that they have a similar deal with CB and Telluride. I think almost everyone would have preferred they went with MC/IKON, but To be honest, they probably needed to do something to keep themselves from going under. I doubt that CB turns much, if any profit considering how few people ski there. I doubt the extremes will see a huge uptick in traffic. The additional traffic will likely mostly be confined to red lady, silver queen and paradise.

[hawkgt]

don't tell anyone...... I had fun at eldora this morning

[Danno]

don't tell anyone...... I had fun at eldora this morning

[hawkgt]

placer was $$

[hatchgreenchile]

That looks fun.
End of week storm looks quite......wet.

[Underoos]

It was fun to kick back and watch everyone race around today. Lots of whooping and smiling faces out there.
This guy got first tracks on Shoo Fly and took his first trip up the C chair.





No one showed up for bloodies.

[hawkgt]

^^^ nice!!! working on the spread eagles early

[Danno]

Yeah little underoos!

[bamboocoreONLY]

noticed that someone skied one of the sisters next to the tunnel driving back home from berthoud today, aren’t these lines illegal? Maybe I’ve been mistaken all these years.


Berthoud was splendid but I can tell what a low snow year does, busiest I’ve ever seen the summit lot on a Monday. Here’s my lady rippin!

[simple]

Skiing the sisters avalanche paths before June is illegal. I've seen lots of tracks down them lately from snowboards. Someone is going to get busted or maybe even killed soon.

[cravenmorhead]

Good times at Beaver Creek yesterday. Base was a little crunchy but with 7"+ on top it didn't matter much.

I saw the same line on the sisters. Dumb move.

[adrenalated]

Correct, the Seven Sisters are a permanent USFS closure. Pretty sure the closure dates are Nov 15 to May 30. Sometimes they still hold snow in June but usually they're melted out by then.
Loveland and CDOT do both watch them and will call the Sheriff if they catch someone. Unsure what the penalty is - I think a hefty fine - and Loveland will pull passes.

[Name Redacted]

Ya know, there's a lot of things that are illegal in this world that still get done.
I rode them a long time ago, but I don't know if it was illegal then, seems like it was just out of bounds, so we cut the rope. I was just following some friends who worked there.

[zartagen]

2" report, more like 8" out the gates. Mmmm, sleeper day.