Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

**Shredhead** · 02-26-2013, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by KillWW

Currently snowing in Aspen. A little steeper than Vail, but nothing special.

I love Bearpaw/S1, Always soft.

**BDKeg** · 02-26-2013, 12:00 PM

a little refresher of snow today for most places, i like!

**montanaskier** · 02-26-2013, 01:43 PM

Snowing when I left Vail and snowed pretty good all the way to Boulder.

**WTF is dat** · 02-26-2013, 01:48 PM

been looking like summit county lately here in boulder at 6000 feet. few inches fresh this morning... I think we currently have more snow on the ground than the base of keystone has had all season

**MuchosPixels** · 02-26-2013, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by montanaskier

Snowing when I left Vail and snowed pretty good all the way to Boulder.

Im still in vail and its dumping above 10k ft and out back in BSB. Very nice day. The wind was whipping at times and it really buffed some slopes nicely and filled in the rough spots. It helped heal the mountain.

This storm has been real, much more than the overhyped dud of a storm last weekend.

**BDKeg** · 02-26-2013, 04:32 PM

apparently powderhorn has the sleeper pow day today.

From their site:
"STORM UPDATE:
19 inches since 5:00am this morning and still snowing."

**JaytaeMoney** · 02-26-2013, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Shredhead

I love Bearpaw/S1, Always soft.

knee deep in spots today

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 02-26-2013, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by JaytaeMoney

knee deep in spots today

Indeed. Absolutely puking while I was up there 10-1ish. With the wind there was way more than they were reporting and about as close to free refills as we ever get here. Quite a nice surprise for a Tuesday.

**grskier** · 02-26-2013, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by JaytaeMoney

knee deep in spots today

Stop talking about it

I love that area too. particularly if you are headed down to the gondi.

**Name Redacted** · 02-26-2013, 06:39 PM

Good day on VP. Knee deep pillow poppin and barely ever breaking through to our wonderful persistent weak layer. Light snow and high wind all day long.

**knumbskull** · 02-26-2013, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by BDKeg

apparently powderhorn has the sleeper pow day today.

From their site:
"STORM UPDATE:
19 inches since 5:00am this morning and still snowing."

Crazy! Heard it was really nice over there. 17" came in 5 hours. Over three inches an hour for 5 hours and still snowing at the end of the day from what I heard.

Sunlight has 1 inch on the webcam and aspen reported 3 inches.

**grrrr** · 02-26-2013, 09:25 PM

The forecast 1-3" at the house has turned into 15" and still snowing hard. I might just poach some turns in Staunton tomorrow.

**Bronic** · 02-27-2013, 02:14 AM

Originally Posted by knumbskull

Crazy! Heard it was really nice over there. 17" came in 5 hours. Over three inches an hour for 5 hours and still snowing at the end of the day from what I heard.

Holy refills

**Rideski** · 02-27-2013, 06:24 AM

Vail reporting 6 in 24 2 overnight. beav just 2, steamboat with 6 yesterday. WP saying 6 in 24, 3 overnight, thinking about heading there. Vail would be better but kinda had some work to do...

**bean** · 02-27-2013, 06:58 AM

And Loveland takes the angry inch award yet again.

**goldenboy** · 02-27-2013, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Bean

And Loveland takes the angry inch award yet again.

Yeah, well Crested Butte takes the angry trace award then. Again.

**montanaskier** · 02-27-2013, 08:46 AM

From the NWS:
APPEARS THAT THE PATTERN IS CHANGING FROM
WINTER TO SPRING WITH WARMER DAYS AHEAD.

sun and warm will be nice but hopefully it's short lived. This season and our summer will be made or broken with this spring. Lets hope it's cold and wet.

**Shredhead** · 02-27-2013, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by grskier

Stop talking about it

I love that area too. particularly if you are headed down to the gondi.

That's the beauty of it, it just doesn't matter. You guys don't know how good you got it. We used to wait an hour for the Bell Chair, 45 for 1A. Four lifts and an hour fifteen to the top of Highlands, but Steeplechase didn't open till noon anyhow.

**BDKeg** · 02-27-2013, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by montanaskier

From the NWS:
APPEARS THAT THE PATTERN IS CHANGING FROM
WINTER TO SPRING WITH WARMER DAYS AHEAD.

sun and warm will be nice but hopefully it's short lived. This season and our summer will be made or broken with this spring. Lets hope it's cold and wet.

deja vu from last year? lets hope not

**grskier** · 02-27-2013, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by Shredhead

That's the beauty of it, it just doesn't matter. You guys don't know how good you got it. We used to wait an hour for the Bell Chair, 45 for 1A. Four lifts and an hour fifteen to the top of Highlands, but Steeplechase didn't open till noon anyhow.

touche...

I'm looking forward to skiing around this weekend and saying hi to my favorite rocks that I've been hitting.

**rmnpsplitter** · 02-27-2013, 10:40 AM

I'd say we got 2-4" and maybe 6" in wind deposited spots. Mixed bag of everything out there from sun crust, pow and wind slab. Super variable snow. Few shots from dawn patrol this morning. Unfortunately my phone got cold and died right after so no riding shots.

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**JaytaeMoney** · 02-27-2013, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by BDKeg

deja vu from last year? lets hope not

Last March was absolutely awful. 6" for the entire month at the water plant in Aspen (not really near the resorts but they keep immaculate records) which is the lowest since they started keeping track in 1934. And all of that fell on March 1st and 2nd.

Ajax has had 31" in the past week, which is awesome.

**grskier** · 02-27-2013, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by JaytaeMoney

Last March was absolutely awful. 6" for the entire month at the water plant in Aspen (not really near the resorts but they keep immaculate records) which is the lowest since they started keeping track in 1934. And all of that fell on March 1st and 2nd.

Ajax has had 31" in the past week, which is awesome.

Other than a storm about this time last year, just before March it was crazy dry, and warm through the end of the season. Then I think we got most of our spring water from one storm around closing day. If we cold have a regular March, we'd be way ahead of last year for runoff.

**The SnowShow** · 02-27-2013, 12:52 PM

Not a bad morning in Blue Sky...knee deep in trees...even some waist deep on Iron Mask. On the lift with a guy with the worst Boston accent ever...I want to shoot myself

**funkendrenchman** · 02-27-2013, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by JaytaeMoney

Last March was absolutely awful. 6" for the entire month at the water plant in Aspen (not really near the resorts but they keep immaculate records) which is the lowest since they started keeping track in 1934. And all of that fell on March 1st and 2nd.

Ajax has had 31" in the past week, which is awesome.

The mountains barely got more snow than town. And it was 55 degrees for half the month.