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The Colorado Conditions, Meet ups and General Talk Thread

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#1 ·
I know it's early, but damn, we need some snow.

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That shit looks like a repeat of last season.
 
#774 ·
It started dumping around 5am this morning. There was 5-6" on my patio when we went to the mountain. It's still just puking snow.... Tomorrow is probably a good sick day if yo have it. I rode for 2 hours and drove to summit/frisco, snows coming down there too. I'm just got back home and you can literally watch it piling up on my BBQ pit and hand rail. It's pretty wet snow so first 2 hours tomorrow will be where its at unless the temps drop significantly
 
#778 ·
Fantastic day today:bowdown: Good snow at Vail to start the day (much more than reported). Snowed off and on all morning and then fucking puked from ~11:30 until 3 ish. Fresh refills all afternoon.



Coming home took 3 1/2 hours. Vail pass closed at ~2pm (didn't open till 7:23). We said fuck it at 3:45 and went down to Leadville and back up to Copper to bypass the closure. A tandem semi was broke down just before the tunnel which caused weekend like back ups.

Great day and the good snow made up for long drive home. Today was solidly one of my favorite days of the season. Snow was a bit wet so tomorrow might be icy as fuck if it gets really cold tonight.
 
#781 ·
I was at keystone today. It was coming down hard around 1ish. I went down tiger run and then a second time. My tracks were covered for the second run. NEATO! I was doin my frontside tree rounds.

It was dumping hard. Visibility was around 0. Tracks were not visible at one point because they were getting instantly covered. It was a little difficult, but nice and soft. It was a white out blizzard.

I-70 was shut down for a bit... I left for work early and still got there late. Thankfully I don't have to go on I-70. I-70 sux and caused my commute to take longer.
 
#785 ·
From the CAIC
Special Advisory Statement in Effect through 03/23/2013 5:00 PM

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center has issued a Special Advisory Statement for the Steamboat, Vail & Summit County, Sawatch, Front Range, and Aspen zones. Up to a foot of new snow and significant wind drifting have stressed the existing snowpack and produced dangerous avalanche conditions. Backcountry travelers should use extra caution. Large and destructive human-triggered avalanches are likely.
Just a heads up for any of you thinking about doing sidecountry shots.. Probably not a good weekend for that type of terrain. Especially stuff like East Vail with high consequence terrain.

Play smart if you go outside of the ropes this weekend.
 
#793 ·
I'm thinking about trying to squeeze one last trip out west(probaly Vail/BC) and come the last week of the season, April 6-13. I know no-one has a time machine or can predict the weather that far out, but historically is this last week normally a good time or has the weather gotten too warm and the snow is crap and dirt spots are showing thru? Trip will probaly cost me about $1k so before I just want to make sure It would be worth my hard earned money. While I would love powder as long as the snowpack is still holding well and the ground isnt showing I could justify the trip.

TIA
 
#794 ·
Well 2 years ago was epic and Loveland and Abasin went to 4th of July (roughly). Last year was shit and they pretty much closed the first week of May.

Only other thing to consider is that in this part of the year we are almost to the point where the mountains will have afternoon storms every day. The chances of you hitting some fresh are probably better than in Oct-Feb.

We get pounded in march and april.

You could get skunked, but shit will be open. Also consider higher elevations like Abasin and Loveland, I've heard some recent horror stories of BC melting out fast already (its relatively lower).
 
#800 ·
No way to know for sure. If the weather keeps up like it is now.... conditions will be great. If it gets warm it will be spring skiing (icy in the am and mashed potatoes in the pm). Get a magic 8 ball... it will be just as accurate as any of us at predicting the conditions.
 
#801 ·
Backside of vail was closed already b tis time last year. It's full on open and deep right now. Not forecasted to have high temps this week and it's been snowing for 3 days. Another storm heading this way wed/fri.... BC just has not gotten the same snow and was thin a month ago.....
 
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