Everyone keeps saying the upsloper shit about storms and yet Breck has seriously been getting it this year. That 9 inches on Monday was a little weird. Either way glad snow is coming in.
Staying in frisco Friday and Saturday.. Kinda waiting to see how the snow comes in and who now much snow everyone gets before we decide where we're going.. Hit me up whoever is up enjoying the weekend
I wanna buy into this storm. I want to believe that it's going to deliver for the mountains. But anytime it's a big upslope event I get nervous. I've been burned too many times waking up to 2+ feet in Evergreen just to see a 2" report at Loveland.
I'm cautiously optimistic but it won't shock me if that exact scenario happens again.
I'm heading up early tomorrow.... as it looks like tomorrow is supposed to be the day:dunno: Gonna crash in Breck and ride Sunday am and bolt early to beat traffic.
With the way this forecast has changed it wouldn't surprise me if it was dud or if it dumped. Guess we'll see.
Just checked the Keystone webcams and it doesn't look like its doing dick yet.
Joel updated ~20 minutes ago:
1-2 feet is possible for the mountains along the divide, 2+ feet is likely for the foothills east of the divide, and Denver metro should hit double digits with the highest totals south and west of the city.
Tomorrow should be a good storm day - meaning free refills, but little to no visibility and the good terrain staying closed.
My money is on Sunday. Bluebird pow day. Hell, it may be Monday before the really fun terrain opens depending on how much control work gets done Sunday AM. The recent in-bounds avy taking a group for a ride probably has all the ski patrols doing some re-evaluating.
I'd be ok with a good day of riding in pounding snow tomorrow and then some blue bird pow laps Sunday AM. I'm planning on leaving Denver at 5:30 am to beat the crowd... not to worried about the snow as my WRX (with 4 snows) is really good in the snow.
Light snow in keystone.. Nothing spectacular. Supposedly already 4in since last night. Waiting for lifts to open but I'm betting tomorrow is where the money is..
I don't think you're gonna miss much, buddy. Looks like a classic upsloper. Snowing like a mad man here in Evergreen and just clouds and fog at Loveland.
I still hold out hope when they're talking about good snow for the slopes, but when it's an upsloper, we pretty much know what we're gonna get 90% of the time - feet in the foothills and butthurt on the slopes. :laugh:
Looks like it's over. Forecasters are back tracking with every new run. They went from 11-17" for us here in Evergreen as of 8am this morning to 6-10" now. There's about 8" on the ground and it looks like it's clearing up.
Loveland snow stake is showing right at 6". Hopefully they can squeeze out a few more and make for a good day tomorrow.
Gotta be honest, I'm starting to lose faith in Joel. Dude has been off BAD this year. Really bad. By and large, NOAA has been kicking his ass in terms of nailing down snow totals.
Gotta be honest, I'm starting to lose faith in Joel. Dude has been off BAD this year. Really bad. By and large, NOAA has been kicking his ass in terms of nailing down snow totals.
Blame Ullr not Joel. The man provides a great and unique service. No where else can you get semi-long term forecast written in paragraph form like you can get from his website. And there is no arguing that the guy works hard, yesterday there were three updates. NOAA is great resource as well but it is somewhat limited in respect to details, mountain specific forecasts, and long term weather pattern/ jet stream information.
I gave up too soon. It's been puking all day here. Not sure how much we have, but it's a lot. Loveland snow stake closing in on 8". Tomorrow still has a chance to be really good.
Linville, you have been a "glass half empty" kind of guy all this season. It's not turning out half as bad your posts would make you believe. I missed out on today but tomorrow should be a pretty good morning.
A log of my half glass empty attitude this year comes from my lack of time to ride. Damn it, I need some good days! Between work and school I'm swamped and can't get up much this season. Tomorrow's gonna be a good day.
I checked the webcams today and strangely enough even that shit hole on the other side of Berthoud wasn't crowded either. I think the snow not the Snow Ball festival kept a lot of the Denverites away today.
Im on the fence about heading up tomorrow...I have a feeling everyone who didnt go today will be going up tomorrow searching for leftovers. This is exactly why weekday snow > weekend snow.
edit: can't be any worse than the "pow" weekdays lately. I'm as sick of fair weather CO skiers as I am of Texans.
*I know its all good for the industry, but I go on days when it sucks so that I can ride hard all day when its good. I know tons of pussy ass wankers who are all about showing up for 2 hours on 5 good days a season just to track shit out. These types can go straight fuck themselves.
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