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The Colorado Conditions, Meet ups and General Talk Thread

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

Colorado | OpenSnow

That shit looks like a repeat of last season.
 
#3,343 ·
I'm planning on going Friday and Saturday. They have decent snowmaking and grooming so usually, their WROD is just a touch better than other options open at that time. Certainly better than Keystone. Not to mention less crowds than anything open on the Epic Pass.

I was just up at Loveland and the top section of their WROD was pretty much a sheet of ice.
 
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Yeah, I am obviously expecting the WROD, but if the snow is consistent and I can get an edge in it and there are not too many people all over the place, it could, possibly, knock me out of this ridiculous state I am in right now.....:crazy2:

I have been stupidly checking the Copper webcams and they all seem to be down, except Superbee (which won't even be open). The manmade snow is obviously not my favorite... but I miss feeling the G-foces of a good carved turn on snow.

But if Copper is just Ice, I won't waste the gas.
 
#3,356 ·
Two guys got caught in an avalanche outside of Crested Butte. I believe it was yesterday. The size of the avalanche was classified as an R2 D1.5. Big enough to kill. From what I have heard is that they are okay. Would not be surprised to find out they got pretty beat up. Worth stating a simple fact in Colorado. There is an avalanche death recorded in every month of the year in this state. If there is enough snow to ride, there is enough to slide. So be thinking about avalanches whenever you are going for turns outside them ropes.

Glad that it was a close call. It would be nice if that is all we hear about this year.

Info on it is posted at the Crested Butte Avalanche Center's website and Facebook page.
 
#3,362 ·
There is some snow in the 12z GFS forecast. I just want some decent snow before my Dec 11th trip. I am kinda terrified im gonna be on WROD the whole time with my wife who has never snowboarded before. I just dont want a cluster fuck for her. Learning how to snowboard is not fun... learning how to snowboard on WROD with massive crowds would be even worse.
 
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#3,381 ·
That discussion on opensnow is interesting, particularly how it highlights our need for 100" in order to get on the goods here in CO.

Even when its good here it historically happens in "drips and drabs" (i believe Kill called it), they just don't stop.

So the longer it takes that 100" to start, the longer we are looking at before riding the "steep and deep".

Mid november with nothing good in sight is therefore plenty to "worry" about.

Certainly all is not lost.

A couple years ago we had 18 months of nothing.
 
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