Looked down it on Saturday. Pretty thin this year. Could def still do some skiing though.

You skied down past us. Its getting quite good quite quickly. Snow was a little better yesterday eve, but today was still great.

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We had great conditions on SE at 10 AM in RMNP yesterday. Overnight freeze was not super deep, so it seemed like a pretty narrow window to me. If we see similar temps set in again soon, that is...

Its been feeling well above average in Summit. Good stability on solar aspects that were likely dry before the early Nov storms, then got enough depth quickly. Still not pushing things too much with...

Glad to hear that bed surface delivered! It seemed like it had some potential.

Skied dragons tail this morning. Below TL, super dense for the most part. Only the the N-ist of slopes were cold. Above TL, exposed east facing (i.e. bananas) was getting wind jacked. The S facing...

Obvious dust in 10 mile range.

Good heavy snow tonight at 11k, great snow at 12k.

Its pretty striking how quickly the low elevations are melting, but I bet up high and north there will be plenty of good skiing through May. There's not much way to build low elevation base this time...

Pretty outstanding skiing this past weekend around Summit. Seems like many of the classics have good coverage right now, while the more fickle lines are thin and interesting. Most of the avalanche...

Maybe by May...

55 cm new near berthoud at 7pm. Almost forgot how much I love powder skiing.

I think Quandary is a great choice. If we start getting the uplslope cycles, check out bierstadt. For a notch harder, but still pretty moderate, the tuning forks on Torreys or the SE face on Democrat...

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You'll do fine. Snow pack is still really good. My general take is that the big wind events moved most of that snow...

I thought it was powder skiing season

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High and shady is good.

I was right there yesterday morning. After not skiing rmnp all year, we botched the summer trail skin track a bit to get there. PLace is basically unrecognizable for january. Snow was fantastic...

Solid brookie!

Found phenomenal coverage and mostly great ski conditions all week in the sangres. General trend is little snow below 11k, amazing from 12k up. Skied little bear, ellingwood, Blanca, Humboldt,...

Also skied it 2 years ago in April. Just takes some good upsloping. Fun line. 2500'. Cold snow lasts well on skiers left. Both times hit a few rocks while staying out of the sun.

For an FYI, the direct line on emperor was in cleanly on saturday. It wont stay in too long if it gets warm. Maybe a few days before there are a few feet of down climbing or you have to take the less...

1:43 do decide between a left and right turn?

no ice on DW. Just deep snow and rock cruxes. Hopefully it snows another 10 ft and it can go clean.

Found excellent conditions in Flying Dutchman, decent in Dreamweaver on Saturday. Not sure what the recipe is for dreamweaver to be all-time. I suspect epic May is the only answer.

Is the obs gone - link dead and nothing recent in table? Anybody want to summarize?

Saw the mention in the daily. 6-10'... jeez

I was more referring to if you get to the top right after another party, communicate some sort of strategy with them. e.g. all ski together to safe zones, or 1 team takes it all the way through the...

DT from the top. Always from the top unless you are going to drop from below the tower. If there is fresh snow, the choke and the pocket below the upper crux rocks will slough pretty big. Also, on...

I'd have to say that was one of the more fun Februaries I can remember. Couple amazing storms, solid base, stable alpine, great weather. The only truly bad snow all month was on s. facing terrain...

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Everywhere except here:
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My pics above were from rocky and nearby. There is a nice base right now, where nice base = a thick 1f to 4f slab over facets below TL. Upside is you dont hit many rocks. Lots of storm snow...

Today was good:
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Yesterday was better:
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Pretty okay weekend.
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A little stoke from a short tour yesterday morning:
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To reiterate how nice the AM was:
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measured 65 cm in the bowl at HV before we left at 9AM. Very dense. Fun, but it was actually better skiing yesterday evening.

Everything I heard was pow and windless this weekend. My personal testing confirmed. Unbutthurt continues.

Seeing the obs for that slide at loveland last week did reinforce my tour plan for saturday to avoid N. Facing terrain regardless if it might harbor better snow. It will remain a relevant data point...

The wind hammering in the windian peaks wasn't restricted to N facing. S facing was blasted firm and skied very well. A little bit of SE allowed occasional soft snow to intersperse, but there was...

Ran a lap through the flattop trees/rock garden, with just a few tracks, and no people, but remarkably thin base in there for late Feb. Seemed much worse than when I skied terrain park the day...

I may have been a bit spoiled last week:
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, but I thought today was just pretty good in rmnp:
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I probably need to recalibrate my bar...

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Yup. Skiers left of the gully.

I was speculating it might have to do with the warm chinook winds. A friend said Berthoud had minimal wind effect. Bear lake is quite a bit further down from the divide, so more time for winds to...

The forecast yesterday showed a lull in the winds for a few hrs, but rest assured they were back and raging this morning.

Not saying the skiing is all bad. Just only good in isolated areas, and...

The wind did a real number on snow in RMNP. We stayed below treeline this morning, even in dense trees from N all the way around to SE was heavily wind affected. Due east and low elevation seemed...

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Frontrange this morning
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Somewhat dust on crust, but still very good. 6-12" across the board.

Abasin was very good this morning for the pre-opening race. Made the 30 min longer race commute worth it. Sooo good. Sad to go to work :(

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Just bad skiing everywhere. Total letdown.