Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[rmnpsplitter]

^^^ I should be up there with a small group in the morning. Look for the guys with the bright blue and red Freeride Systems jackets.

Will be up there as well. Have a few buddies coming up from the shitty so I'm not expecting a super early start. Lay down a nice skin track for me! Black jacket on a venture split.

[garuda]

Are there any snotel sites with 24hr snow accumulation? All the summit sites on caic are only depth and swe. Am I missing something? Nwac is pretty slick with telemetry, any links buried in this massive thread?

here you go http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/

[ASmileyFace]

NOAA going all in on the San Juans. 37-52 (!!!!) inches predicted for wolf creek over 48 hours. Insane.

Can't believe I have to do real life shit tomorrow. Enjoy the goods folks.

[GPP33]

Forecast looks good, forecast doesn't look good...either way, the real question is: Will this be the weekend where the entire state of the front range gives up, or will they persist driving 4-6 hours one direction Denver to Silverthorne for 3 hours "powder" skiing...?

I mean seriously though...I gave up a long time ago. Maybe I'm not dedicated? Maybe this should be in the I70 bitch thread.

Sorry not sorry.

So why are you still here cunting up this thread? You don't ski, you don't get stoked about powder, I feel sorry for you. It doesn't take a genius to figure out how to miss the morning traffic and ski powder all day long, I was almost there about 5 years ago but changed my attitude. Stop being so lazy or go kill the vibe of some other thread.

Back on track, easy drive up, all day powder and lots of sick first tracks. No pics, low visibility and having too much fun. Lines were a little long but the singles moved quick all day. The drive home was interesting with traffic starting at Idaho spring where it normally ends. Once on the flat land you got around everyone who really can't drive in the snow. If you haven't gotten yours there's still a few days left. I love Colorado.

[Muggydude]

Breck skied great this morning. Grabbed the first chair, skied through lunch and heading back down now. Upper stuff by T bar and over to imperial were all nice. Few fresh tracks, but even the more cut up stuff had good shin deep lines. Only caveat was the line lengths, why I normally don't ski here- but it does seem like they got pretty close to what they reported inches wise the part couple days. Nice day to ski!

[linvillegorge]

Considering what was forecasted, this one was a bust for most areas. Maybe it'll deliver for the San Juans. They're still calling for more for most mountains through today and tonight, but this thing looks over with to me. Hopefully tonight will end up panning out.

[pfluffenmeister]

who's going to wolfie tomorrow?


I'm thinking of heading down before the ass-crack of dawn for a Monday/Tuesday powder cleansing.
Trip should only be ~4.5hrs each way.

[SKIP IN7RO]

who's going to wolfie tomorrow?

I'll be there. 4.5 hrs might be possible, but if it keeps snowing the way it is right now, South Fork will have around 2 feet in the morning. Drive safe.

[smmokan]

The storm definitely delivered for Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park... easily 15" of blower on top of a solid (and not icy) base. Holy shit was it cold up there today once you stopped skinning.

[SKIP IN7RO]

^^Nice!

[FiveLarge]

Nice pics, Steve. Thanks for sharing and the report!

[rmnpsplitter]

The storm definitely delivered for Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park... easily 15" of blower on top of a solid (and not icy) base. Holy shit was it cold up there today once you stopped skinning.

Will second that. Although that was a pretty busy day by HV standards. Still amazing turns.

[pfluffenmeister]

I'll be there. 4.5 hrs might be possible, but if it keeps snowing the way it is right now, South Fork will have around 2 feet in the morning. Drive safe.

thanks.
look for neon yellow jacket and some 191 Lhasa Fats.


i've got change.

[GPP33]

The storm definitely delivered for Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park... easily 15" of blower on top of a solid (and not icy) base. Holy shit was it cold up there today once you stopped skinning.

I knew I should have gone up there today. Nice work.

[JaytaeMoney]

but this thing looks over with to me.

not from where i'm standing... don't quit your day job

[trogdortheburninator]

I may have been a bit spoiled last week:


, but I thought today was just pretty good in rmnp:


I probably need to recalibrate my bar...

[Wildman]

No need to recalibrate. it was just that good today..

[rmnpsplitter]

I may have been a bit spoiled last week:


, but I thought today was just pretty good in rmnp:


I probably need to recalibrate my bar...

Nice, was it busy up in the bear lake area?

[bobsdesk]

Back on track, easy drive up, all day powder and lots of sick first tracks. No pics, low visibility and having too much fun. Lines were a little long but the singles moved quick all day. The drive home was interesting with traffic starting at Idaho spring where it normally ends. Once on the flat land you got around everyone who really can't drive in the snow. If you haven't gotten yours there's still a few days left. I love Colorado.

Pics or it didn't happen

[trogdortheburninator]

Nice, was it busy up in the bear lake area?

Ran a lap through the flattop trees/rock garden, with just a few tracks, and no people, but remarkably thin base in there for late Feb. Seemed much worse than when I skied terrain park the day before leaving on vacation.

Whole lotta folks (~10) on flattop putting lines every which direction. My little secret stash was thankfully still hidden behind a rib of rocks when I arrived around 1 PM. 3 laps later and nobody had caught on. Heard that terrain park was fairly tracked out.

I assumed that HV would be a total gong show, but sounds like it was pretty darn good. Some friends skied it sat and said it was already skiing great, but they are less snow-snobbish than me...

[grskier]

We're doing surprisingly well for a SW storm... I'm stoked.

[ASmileyFace]

People who made to wolf creek today please, please post pictures. I won't be able to make it out there this week and I want to live vicariously through you guys.

[mdblows]

I assumed that HV would be a total gong show, but sounds like it was pretty darn good. Some friends skied it sat and said it was already skiing great, but they are less snow-snobbish than me...

Gong show confirmed. Several groups of 8-10 people all over the place, stopping in the skin track, etc.

[PowTron]

People who made to wolf creek today please, please post pictures. I won't be able to make it out there this week and I want to live vicariously through you guys.

I'll be there tomorrow...if I dare stop for photos I'll post.

[ASmileyFace]

From the Telluride snowstake cam at 4pm now that power is back on in the town.



Crazy storm for the SW. We needed this one.