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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.
 
#2,926 ·
Fuck. My idea that A-Basin wouldn't be that crowded today... not exactly accurate. Everyone in the fucking state had the same idea. Sitting in the parking lot that is Highway 6 right now. It's backed up for miles to try to get into the Basin. I'd bail if I hadn't already bought my lift ticket online.
 
#2,928 ·
Well, that was a $49 donation to A-Basin. Biggest shit show ever. Highway 6 is literally lined with hundreds of people trying to hitch hike up from Keystone. Hell, it doesn'T even look like they got shit for snow. It's been 4 years since I went to one of the resorts on one of the big passes and it'll probably take me at least that long again to forgetc how much it sucka. God bless y'all who actually deal with that shit on a regular basis. I'd pull a killclimbz and go 100% backcountry before I'd do it. Gonna head back home, grab the split and find some grassy hills in Evergreen to get my fix.
 
#2,929 ·
I got there at 820. I was 8 or 9th person On the back side. The snow was awesome back there. That was the busiest I had ever seen the parking lot, the lift lines were no where near as bad as the highway line. It was one car per person basically. rode a couple hours and bailed. boot deep very heavy snow.
 
#2,933 ·
With catching a ride, taking a bus, and hitch hiking still made it there by about 9:15. Snow wasn't the best but it's mid May I've ridden worse there. Had fun jumping off some things finally scouted this one rock I wanted to hit, but due to so many fucktards being there the landing got killed after my scouting mission that I had to pull out.

Have to say I was surprised at the number of people going up there. Rode the lift with a whole lot of fucking morons. Also saw a lot of passes getting pulled for ducking ropes or my favorite the idiot that hiked up Upper East Wall when it was closed. Patrol reamed him and his buddy a new ass.
 
#2,934 ·
95% of that crowd was from Denver area.... I saw three of those retards get reamed by the patrol. Apparently they only had 8 patrollers working today. Felt bad for those guys....

To me Denver area is east of Idaho springs, co springs and north to Fort Collins/boulder.
 
#2,940 ·
Nice pics, Argo. They understate the ridiculous mismatch between resort ski season and meteorological ski season.

I had a 3-day weekend and didn't make it out to do anything.:sad:

I did order a new beacon on sale online, though.. will be here in a few days.
hoping to get out either May 17th or 18th somewhere, maybe Sherman ???
 
#2,944 ·
Evidently the strongest El Nino since the winter of '97-98 may be forming.

Strongest El Nino in 17 years brewing: Oregon weather watch | OregonLive.com

Going back and looking at SNOTEL data from that winter, looks like the Front Range and Summit County did pretty decent coming in at 90-109% of average throughout the season. The rest of the state didn't fair as well.

Nothing set in stone, but maybe an early indicator.
 
#2,946 ·
What isn't represented by that Winter of 97-98 is almost all of that snow came after the first two weeks of April. January was a great month, February had a couple of storms, and March was a donut from what I remember. The ski areas closed and then it nuked snow. 97-98 was a horrible season. The only saving grace it was the year the pass wars started and that saved a lot of ski area's bacon.
 
#2,945 ·
Well it was easily more than 7 inches up there. FINALLY got to hit that one fucking rock I've wanted to hit, got it twice packed down the lip perfectly had it all set for round three and some fucking jabroni hits it and just explodes the landing. I couldn't help but laugh as it was clear with the way he hit it that he had no clue there were three rocks on the other side you had to clear over as well as a tree to avoid.
 
#2,948 ·
Vail pass has been stable in the am up to today. I went out there early before work and did A run. Nice snow and no slide activity. This was south side of highway, north/northeast facing areas

Buffalo was nice and safe early this week according to a few guys I work with. They went up, dug a pit, rode down silver and had zero reservations or second thoughts about it
 
#2,953 · (Edited)
It is a question you should ask yourself. We don't always get away with it. You should be able to recognize that.

What are you looking for this time of year in terks of stability clues? What can a pit tell you? (Not much)

I am sure the Silver was fine Wednesday. I probably would have done it too. Since Wednesday, it has received another 7+" of snow. Conditions are not the same.

Sure I have gotten away with it. Even this year. It doesn't happen as much as it did 14 years ago either. We also now talk about and what we did wrong and what would have been better. Doing that will certainly help you have a long and enjoyable time outside of the boundary ropes.
 
#2,955 ·
Huge wet slide cycle going on yesterday and I am sure it is not done. Reports from Rocky mountain national park and the 10mile range. I saw plenty of it first hand at Bert. I am guessing it is all the new snow shedding off. What didn't go yesterday is probably sloughing off today. At times it is going rather big. Postage stamp went wall to wall with a four to five foot crown. I don't know if it was skier triggered or not. Hell of a scare if it was. I don't think I have ever seen it go that wide.

It also wrecked Corner Pocket. Not sure I will get that line done this season. Bummer.

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