Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

**SkiBall** · 02-14-2020, 08:00 PM

They have not been very forthcoming with the details which has made for a bit of confusion cuz we know something happened and they are not being forthcoming. Rumors swirling. Blue sky closed again today. Sad news regardless.

**Dee Hubbs** · 02-14-2020, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by SkiBall

They have not been very forthcoming with the details which has made for a bit of confusion cuz we know something happened and they are not being forthcoming. Rumors swirling. Blue sky closed again today. Sad news regardless.

Blue sky was open around 12:30 onwards today.

**Lightning1911** · 02-14-2020, 09:33 PM

Bummer for the guy in Vail.

Did a Backcountry tour in my neighborhood this afternoon.
Shit snow, rock hard wind crust over storm slab.
That scary moderate is right... I couldn't get it to move at all, anywhere... But digging thru the crust revealed a huge storm slab on top of facets.

If it goes, it'll go big.

**SkiBall** · 02-14-2020, 09:38 PM

I raked the roof this weekend. It came down a lot easier than some years.

**The SnowShow** · 02-15-2020, 11:57 AM

Damn, that Steamboat forecast looks amazing. 24” Sun-Mon.

**dcpnz** · 02-15-2020, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by beece

My kid lost a ski in the terrain park at Eldora yesterday, Friday the 14th. ]

How does that happen?
Theres got to be a story here....Or should we be worried and ask is your kid OK?

**Jellybeans1000** · 02-15-2020, 09:28 PM

https://longrangesnowcenter.net/2020...term-16th-feb/

My final long range snowfall forecast for the season. Decent pattern for Colorado going forward with snow in the short term, and then potentially some more heavy falls for Sunday week and beyond.

**Kinnikinnick** · 02-16-2020, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by simple

I'm gonna guess Gary Fondl is one

Shot in the dark, bit isnt that Fastfred?

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**smmokan** · 02-16-2020, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by Kinnikinnick

Shot in the dark, bit isnt that Fastfred?

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It all makes sense now...

**fastfred** · 02-16-2020, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Kinnikinnick

Shot in the dark, bit isnt that Fastfred?

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No. Not at all.
I could say alot but it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes

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**Rideski** · 02-16-2020, 09:44 AM

I’m here to observe the momentous occasion of Fred biting his tongue.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 02-16-2020, 09:44 AM

Some of the instagram stars are nailing full on slide terrain and it looks like premo pow. People going to push it after seeing that.

This is the extent of my social media so luckily it doesn't affect my decision making. That said, I challenge those clowns to rationalize there choices and explain why they are right and the avalanche forecasters are wrong.

If you are just going for it and that is a risk you are willing to take...own it. Using your education, knowledge and experience to get closer and closer to the edge is a strategy that has proven the fair in the last few month.

I ain't trying to preach but lucky can and does run out. The morgue has plenty of proof.

Stay safe!

**bamboocoreONLY** · 02-16-2020, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

This is the extent of my social media so luckily it doesn't affect my decision making. That said, I challenge those clowns to rationalize there choices and explain why they are right and the avalanche forecasters are wrong.

If you are just going for it and that is a risk you are willing to take...own it. Using your education, knowledge and experience to get closer and closer to the edge is a strategy that has proven the fair in the last few month.

I ain't trying to preach but lucky can and does run out. The morgue has plenty of proof.

Stay safe!

I mean heck, ever been out in Irwin? Some ballsy ass dudes out there just ski cutting and paracord-ing sketch terrain all the time haha

**Kinnikinnick** · 02-16-2020, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by fastfred

No. Not at all.
I could say alot but it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes

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Heh,

So is it the drywall dust = dainbramage that youd say a lot about or...?

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**summit** · 02-16-2020, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by galibier_numero_un

I wouldn't be surprised if one of them is Fritz Sperry - at least a Facebook star in the Colorado Backcountry Ski group.

I'm not impressed with the example he sets for impressionable people.

... Thom

Yea a lot of us are the opposite of impressed with that guy. Especially those of us who have skied with him. I told him what I thought. He blocked me. He is more arrogant than he used to be and unable to take criticism. He IS the human factor.

**MakersTeleMark** · 02-16-2020, 04:31 PM

Prelim:
https://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/a...=744&accfm=rep

**simple** · 02-16-2020, 05:47 PM

2 dead snow bikers. Ugh

Presidents day weekend warning signs

**MakersTeleMark** · 02-16-2020, 06:06 PM

Very deep burial.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

**Leshphilling77** · 02-16-2020, 06:35 PM

Damn that picture is crazy. Shitty situation

**Lightning1911** · 02-16-2020, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

Very deep burial.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Whoa

**Leshphilling77** · 02-17-2020, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by Summit

Yea a lot of us are the opposite of impressed with that guy. Especially those of us who have skied with him. I told him what I thought. He blocked me. He is more arrogant than he used to be and unable to take criticism. He IS the human factor.

Quite the post last night

Will be at the basin today, worried the ikon crowds may be a bit heavy since the basin was blacked out the past two days but they don’t really ski the good stuff, right?