I'm leaving the state for a while. No doubt I'll be missing some good storms. Enjoy it!!

Unfortunately my travel plans were to drive over Wolf Creek Pass tomorrow enroute to Arizona, but now its...

Warm as Florida, and windy as Wyoming today!!! Sticky slush everywhere below treeline. Then around noon the winds picked up and it got kinda crazy. We observed over a dozen trees blow down into...

Wow, it's really amazing what 5" will do to 2 week old crust! Really fun day today in Summit. Even a little pow is waaaay better then no pow at all!!!

The real question is: will this storm come in late enough tomorrow night, or will it come in before the sun sets and rain on us. Cause that would really really suck.

You could say that again. This morning was fuckin great!! Who knew dust on crust could be so fun?

Get after it tomorrow, as we've got some warmth coming that should ruin anything south facing.

Hehehe, I don't think things are going to stabilize for awhile!!!

In other news, today I had some ridiculously good turns above treeline at a certain flat, beater-filled, under-appriciated summit...

Steeps at the Beav were $$$ this money!!!!

I for one and stoked on the wetter snow. We need something to stick and make some kind of a base. Seems like a lot of the meager snow we've gotten this...

Holy wind transport!!!! Huge cornices up in the alpine this morning that were growing as the day went on. Wind drifts up high were 2-3 feet and suuuuuper touchy. Saw some drifts even below...

The rumors are true, it did snow at Keystone today. 1" overnight, then another 2-3" in the afternoon. Tomorrow may be the best day of the season, but that's not saying much...

Suprise snow this afternoon. A solid half-trace!! Just enough to fill the grooves in the corduroy.

:rolleyes2

So much for the 4-8 NOAA was calling for last night. What a season...

Your banner picture at Summit Snow Info isn't even in Summit County. Not only that, but you don't even have info from the weather stations near that place!!! ;)

I do like the site. Lots of info...

Nice NW flow going on right now! Should be a fun day in-bounds tomorrow.

Gotta stay positive...

Sick cowboy powder at keystone today. Nothing beats 2" on a groomer!!!

:rolleyes2

Dude, I don't know what your talking about. Ski Cooper opened yesterday with 100% of terrain, and the snow is all-natural. Go get sum!!!!

Agreed. Incredibly touchy snowpack out there. Too deep for mellow lines, too reactive for anything steeper!!

Be safe!!!!!

2 inches of so in Leadville. That's on top of another inch from yesterday.

Far cry from the forecasts. But I'll be there's a decent amount of accumulation going on up high.

^^^ :eek::eek:

Where, praytell, is that?!?

This is shaping up rather well!!



Tonight: Snow, mainly after 11pm. Low around 1. Wind chill values between -5 and -15. South wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total...

Is this really anything new for the CO high country?!?! Sounds like the start to every season...;)

Beautiful day today up in the mountains. Life is good!

Pretty fucking $$$$ up on Monarch today. Total fluff. Going back for seconds tomorrow!!!!!

Pssssst...

It was puking above 12K today in the sawatch. 1"/hour status, with full-on winter storm winds. Not much is skiable, but what is skiable is gooooooooood skiing...

Fuckin cold today in the Ville! 24 degrees right now in the "heat of the day"!!!

Woke up to half an inch or so in town. The Sawatch have been socked in all day. Gotta be upwards of a foot up...

Snowing lightly in the Ville. Havn't seen the Sawatch all day. So glad to experience winter again!!!!

Looks like good potential for continued moist air in the next week. Lots of water vapor...

From NWS:

A MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL AFFECT THE REGION STARTING THURSDAY MORNING AND LASTING INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 4 AND 12 INCHES IN THE LOWER VALLEYS......

Well, I'm stoked now!!!!!!

Almost time? Um, here in the Sawatch, we've been skiing big shit for the last month. Skiing the Star Mountain chutes in February?!? Yep, it got done...

Now if only it would warm enough for a...

^^^^Very hard pack. They didn't get much at all out of this week's storm.

So much for snow. Sunny here in Leadvegas.

Nice weather for ski jouring, though. 6 foot jumps down mainstreet, gotta love it!

Finally a seasonably cold day here at 10,000'. Only in the mid-twenties right now. Ahhhh, the cold breeze feels good!

Hehehehehe, yes, a nice day on the front range is certainly better then a wet day skiing. Oh wait...:rolleyes2

Found 6-8" of fresh up near Indy today. Overnight, 5-6" of fluff fell, then throughout the day, a couple more inches of wet slop fell on top. Should turn back into fluff once the sun sets....

Agreed. I've been seeing some really nice pits lately. Definitely the plus side to all the warmth and sunshine (that, and the goggle tan is coming in early this year!).

Jeez, a bunch of whiner's on here!

I've been skiing great pow all week. Hell, all season, really. Today, I lost count of the faceshots.

You just gotta be willing to walk around and look for...

You just never noticed in the past. FYI, even at Monarch, this year has been dry. Remember last year, when Monarch got 480"? (oh wait, you probably don't, because no one was here skiing it...) And...

Got out into the central Sawatch yesterday to do some tree skiing. N facing trees were the tits, while all other aspects had crusts burried at various depths, from a foot down to 3 inches. But...

Bluebird in Leadville as well. But it's still early!!!

This year has been quite unpredictible. Not the obvious pacific cold-fronts that you watch come in for days. The deepest day I had all...

Well, Monarch definitely juiced the shit out of this storm. Yesterday was good, but today was unreal. The 16" in 48 they reported this morning was spot on, for the main mountain. Mirkwood was...

An inch here and there, multi-colored tall-tees, and flat-bills.

Why on God's green Earth would you drive from Vancover to ski at Keystone?!? So many better places in between...

It was in the 50's today in Leadville!

Had a good day yesterday at Monarch. Only 4" or so around the main mountain, but the wind was blowing everything into the trees in Mirkwood, and there was easily a foot in there. Regardless of...

Almost a half inch of nice, wet snow here. Right around 31 degrees. Like others have said, I hope we get a day of this wet stuff to cover up the old snow, then it cools off and the fluff begins to...

oooooo, this morning was the shit!! Definitely a good day to use one of my free days from the monarch pass.

It got skied pretty hard today. Should be good tomorrow, but you'll have to poke...

Where is this one? Is it at Climax?

Still dumping in Leadville. 14+ around town. And when you go higher... it's DEEP!!!!!



Very calm all day in Leadville. Even up at treeline, I experienced unusually low winds!!!

went up Buckeye Gulch yesterday, and found fantastic snow on E aspect!! 8-10 inches of blower on top of a soft base = really good skiing!!!! No signs of instability were observed, nor did I see any...

Big, fat flakes falling in Leadville right now!

Last Thursday (11/13), we went skiing on Hagerman Pass. The road is definitely snowed in up high, but we made it almost to the first switchback. Skied NE aspects which were $$$$$ for the upper 500...

Its snowing in town!!! Just starting to collect, but some big, fat flakes!

well it took all day, but snow is currently pouring forth from the skies once more.

Will this winter ever end?

I'll take you up on that!!!

Yep, tomorrow should be the titties. One last inbounds hurrah before the epically long BC season begins...