Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

**Shredhead** · 12-26-2017, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by glademaster

That's all it takes to get you guys excited? 3 storms totaling like 14 inches of snow and 0.8 inches of water over 5 days "gets the stoke up?!" Wake me up when we have another 4 or 5 inches of SWE on the ground. I think that will likely be January 2019 at this point.

The skiing was good yesterday. I’m first chair on 1A everyday, if you actually ever feel like skiing.

Bring your A game and a better attitude.

**skiracer88_00** · 12-26-2017, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by glademaster

That's all it takes to get you guys excited? 3 storms totaling like 14 inches of snow and 0.8 inches of water over 5 days "gets the stoke up?!" Wake me up when we have another 4 or 5 inches of SWE on the ground. I think that will likely be January 2019 at this point.

The skiing is superb right now. Have fun in Denver or wherever you are. It’s amazing how many will bring the anti-stoke no matter what the weather is doing. Go up and ski and quit being such a prude. You will have a much happier life that way.

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**JaytaeMoney** · 12-26-2017, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by glademaster

That's all it takes to get you guys excited? 3 storms totaling like 14 inches of snow and 0.8 inches of water over 5 days "gets the stoke up?!" Wake me up when we have another 4 or 5 inches of SWE on the ground. I think that will likely be January 2019 at this point.

Skiing is fun, you should try it some time

**Danno** · 12-26-2017, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by wolfelot

I’m glad others got the snow. The FOMO has been burning strong in this me the past two days.

no shit. Except it's not really FOMO when you in fact are just MO.

**SkiLyft** · 12-26-2017, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by Fritz

We need more pics of this and less from Epics.

Pics! Pics! Pics! Trying to justify the drive!

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**ffmedic84** · 12-26-2017, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by glademaster

That's all it takes to get you guys excited? 3 storms totaling like 14 inches of snow and 0.8 inches of water over 5 days "gets the stoke up?!" Wake me up when we have another 4 or 5 inches of SWE on the ground. I think that will likely be January 2019 at this point.

No. Rope drops, knee to chest deep powder and winter finally delivering gets the "stoke up".

**jvskinn** · 12-26-2017, 09:43 AM

Drove up I-70 last night around 8pm coming from sunny Ft Myers, FL. Loveland is going to be really great today, wind was moving a lot of snow around. Hopefully some of you guys are out there enjoying it!

**GPP33** · 12-26-2017, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by glademaster

That's all it takes to get you guys excited? 3 storms totaling like 14 inches of snow and 0.8 inches of water over 5 days "gets the stoke up?!" Wake me up when we have another 4 or 5 inches of SWE on the ground. I think that will likely be January 2019 at this point.

More like twice that in the past 7 days. That's cool though, one less person on the roads/slopes works for me. It sucks up there, you should really stay home for the whole year.

**Shredhead** · 12-26-2017, 09:53 AM

All by my lonesome.

**Fritz** · 12-26-2017, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by glademaster

That's all it takes to get you guys excited? 3 storms totaling like 14 inches of snow and 0.8 inches of water over 5 days "gets the stoke up?!" Wake me up when we have another 4 or 5 inches of SWE on the ground. I think that will likely be January 2019 at this point.

Wut

**grskier** · 12-26-2017, 10:26 AM

Well, good skiing to be had but I'm ready for a central storm track with under 80 mph winds.

**Telemarketeer** · 12-26-2017, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by grskier

Well, good skiing to be had but I'm ready for a central storm track with under 80 mph winds.

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**grskier** · 12-26-2017, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by ULLRismyco-pilot

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Yeah.. I know.

Upper mountain on Snowmass is HAMMERED. Sopris lost most of it's snow during the last storm.

**goldenboy** · 12-26-2017, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by grskier

Yeah.. I know.

Upper mountain on Snowmass is HAMMERED. Sopris lost most of it's snow during the last storm.

Kind of surprising. The max gust I can find on any of the remote stations on this side of the Elks was 40 yesterday. Not exactly dead calm, but not exactly hammering either.

**grskier** · 12-26-2017, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by goldenboy

Kind of surprising. The max gust I can find on any of the remote stations on this side of the Elks was 40 yesterday. Not exactly dead calm, but not exactly hammering either.

81 mph the other night on one of the Aspen/Snowmass mountains.

**cmsummit** · 12-26-2017, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by glademaster

That's all it takes to get you guys excited? 3 storms totaling like 14 inches of snow and 0.8 inches of water over 5 days "gets the stoke up?!" Wake me up when we have another 4 or 5 inches of SWE on the ground. I think that will likely be January 2019 at this point.

ABasin has received 35" in 5 days.

I guess you didn't get the memo.

**Kevo** · 12-26-2017, 10:50 PM

A basin skied great again today. Caught some rope drops for terrain that was open yesterday and had blown in/filled in nicely overnight.

Also, saw some slide debris coming back over LL pass on the way home.

**CLsurf** · 12-27-2017, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by Kevo

A basin skied great again today. Caught some rope drops for terrain that was open yesterday and had blown in/filled in nicely overnight.

Also, saw some slide debris coming back over LL pass on the way home.

Agreed, Abasin was great yesterday. Caught Pali rope drop and got out front early to find fresh tracks from the wind-fill all the way down.

**horizon** · 12-27-2017, 10:13 PM

I know someone said fewer photos from Epic resorts...but the opening of Chair 6 today at Breck was good:

horizon jr:

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me (on the third run, we didn't stop to take photos on the first when there were no other tracks):

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**cmsummit** · 12-27-2017, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by horizon

I know someone said fewer photos from Epic resorts...but the opening of Chair 6 today at Breck was good

Yeah, it was pretty good. I was surprised to see that traversing over into Horseshoe/Contest Bowl was fair game as well.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 12-29-2017, 07:53 AM

The last storm was for real. If you didn't ski Christmas, thats on you. But really, my attitude is starting to suffer. The BC is not so good, the wind has blown for 10 days straight, just enough snow around to but a damper on the down valley activities. And now it is mud season at New Years. Snow was melting at is was 45deg at 8500 yesterday. I guess I'll go XC once again and go kite on the lake...if its frozen.

**Underoos** · 12-29-2017, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

The last storm was for real. If you didn't ski Christmas, thats on you. But really, my attitude is starting to suffer. The BC is not so good, the wind has blown for 10 days straight, just enough snow around to but a damper on the down valley activities. And now it is mud season at New Years. Snow was melting at is was 45deg at 8500 yesterday. I guess I'll go XC once again and go kite on the lake...if its frozen.

Mud season is a bit of a stretch, I think, but yeah it was warm yesterday.

Good weather for staying home and getting drunk.

Weekly C lot festivities kick off next week. Every Thursday. Unless it’s crappy weather, then we’ll be in Pep’s.

**Shredhead** · 12-29-2017, 08:42 AM

Get out early, Rip some groomers until it gets crowded, then do something else.
No wind over here.

**Danno** · 12-29-2017, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by Underoos

Weekly C lot festivities kick off next week. Every Thursday. Unless it’s crappy weather, then we’ll be in Pep’s.

I can confirm that Underoos and his crew have a good thing going on Thursdays. Alas, this year is fucked for me, it might be April before I can take a random Thursday off.

**Name Redacted** · 12-29-2017, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

The last storm was for real. If you didn't ski Christmas, thats on you. But really, my attitude is starting to suffer. The BC is not so good, the wind has blown for 10 days straight, just enough snow around to but a damper on the down valley activities. And now it is mud season at New Years. Snow was melting at is was 45deg at 8500 yesterday. I guess I'll go XC once again and go kite on the lake...if its frozen.

Man, here I was pretty happy with the skiing the last week. Amazing how someone else could have such an polar opposite view on things.