Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[cmsummit]

We had a snow squall warning earlier in the season here. It's currently apocalyptic out there.

[wkd-rdr]

And then it stopped snowing.

Like a switch

[summit]

Where are you that it stopped snowing? The only thing that is stopped is traffic.

[blackalps]

Yesterday at Copper was good. Very few people, lots of snow. First day on Tucker since they put in the new lift. Way different than it used to be, not as good with all the bumps. Still pretty good though. Especially on a sleeper pow day.

[wkd-rdr]

Where are you that it stopped snowing? The only thing that is stopped is traffic.

Vail. It shut off in a matter of minutes.

[bamboocoreONLY]

We had a snow squall warning earlier in the season here. It's currently apocalyptic out there.

Complete reset on the mtn! Tbar opened a bit late but nice n surfy wind pow.

[matoco]

Drive was definitely gnarly this am, one of the worse whiteouts I can remember driving in. Breck seemed pretty deserted in the morning and was deep in spots. Combination of new snow and wind filled in everything and fresh tracks were abundant. Scored the first seat on 6 chair, did not disappoint.

[The SnowShow]

Expanded cat skiing into Dry Gulch approved:

[wkd-rdr]

Pic from Aspen

[Leshphilling77]

Snow squall was gnar driving no joke. But worth it silverthorne to copper. Very good out today. Lapped lots of areas I usually don’t ski a lot and they were bottomless and deep.

[blackalps]

Expanded cat skiing into Dry Gulch approved:

interesting. so is their plan that you skin up the road into Dry Gulch and get picked up? or will there be some way to get there from Lift 8?

[doebedoe]

My understanding is that it’ll pick up off Awesome. No skinning.

[rocca]

interesting. so is their plan that you skin up the road into Dry Gulch and get picked up? or will there be some way to get there from Lift 8?

Can't be, the most southern cat route ends at the currentish rope line north of 8. The easy groomer ("awesome") is pretty close to that point and would be a logical spot to be picked up. Interesting that the northern portion of the project area is outside of their current permit. I'm curious to see if they will move the gate up to that spot (I seem to remember them having a gate there in the past?), leave it where it is (lower), or get rid of it altogether. Either way, that area will be different going forward.

[blackalps]

oh, I forgot about that spot. Haven't skied Loveland in a while. interesting. when are they supposedly going to start this? next season?

[cravenmorhead]

Huh. I had a fun day off Hagar last year. I think there may still be an ice axe up there with my name on it. I haven't paid a lot of attention; how late in the year will they get to run the cat op?

[Danno]

Silverton is riding excellent.
Hawkgt and I gutted Mandatory top to bottom, what a treat!
Other first time runs included Sunset, Rope Dope 2, Meatball, Bonita Basin, Raff Cliffs, Tea Bag Squeezer, and Chainsaw.

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Good stuff. And welcome back.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Wind is doing wind stuff:



I was meadow skipping with dog, but jumped on some nice little test slopes on the way up. Wind slab from last couple days is very poorly bonded in places. This was below tree line.

[skiracer88_00]

Expanded cat skiing into Dry Gulch approved:

This is weird, so their cat terrain encompasses the low angle bowls in the "potential compaction area" despite the fact that they are doing avy mitigation on the steeper terrain higher up on the ridge? Or am I mis-reading this?

If so, this cat skiing operation seems pretty lame.

[skaredshtles]

I was meadow skipping with dog, but jumped on some nice little test slopes on the way up. Wind slab from last couple days is very poorly bonded in places. This was below tree line.

From CAIC this morning - Peak 1:

[turbomike15]

From CAIC this morning - Peak 1:

IB looks gtg

[The SnowShow]

This is weird, so their cat terrain encompasses the low angle bowls in the "potential compaction area" despite the fact that they are doing avy mitigation on the steeper terrain higher up on the ridge? Or am I mis-reading this?

If so, this cat skiing operation seems pretty lame.

I missed that. I was assuming the operation included drops off the Divide. If not, that is lame.

[skiracer88_00]

I missed that. I was assuming the operation included drops off the Divide. If not, that is lame.

The location of the cat road and two drop off points don’t seem to indicate that, but who knows...


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[skiingislife]

This is weird, so their cat terrain encompasses the low angle bowls in the "potential compaction area" despite the fact that they are doing avy mitigation on the steeper terrain higher up on the ridge? Or am I mis-reading this?

If so, this cat skiing operation seems pretty lame.

<500' of <25˚ windpack surrounded by much better skiing/riding. Sounds par for the course.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

<500' of <25˚ windpack surrounded by much better skiing/riding. Sounds par for the course.

Sounds like they're trying to compete with Keystone's epic catskiing.

[CLsurf]

Eldora could glade salto better and those trees would be prime.