Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[The SnowShow]

Steamboat is about to get walloped.

[fastfred]

Foggy and Fred's "How to Mountain - A Definitive Guide" would have made a great Christmas gift, maybe it will print by next year?
Another 4 day event on a solid early season base, good times.

We working on it

This yoga w Adrienne for pent up moms he keeps telling me to start doing

It'll be a tad bit of a self help book if he has his way

[shera]

I drive like a grandma these days.

Ha, I drive like a grandma because I am a grandma. :P

I do start with my mantra, "slow is smooth and smooth is fast", but whenever I have to drive down to Denver, I progressively get more aggro. By the time I'm on 6 coming into town hot at 85 mph, just wishing I could be there already. Anyway, did I have a point there? Will be happy to be back at 2 mile high tomorrow night.

[possum]

Steamboat is about to get walloped.

It’s started

[Full Trucker]

Steamboat is about to get walloped.

It’s started

Excellent.

[MakersTeleMark]

I for one embrace the junk show that is the holidays. In some ways, it is one of the few constants of mountain town living. It give the newish to Colorado Front Rangers somebody lower on the totem pole to rant on. A lady on the chairlift volunteered that "she'd been here (Lakewood) 26months" like a kid would tell you they are "three and three quarters".

I listen in on these Zooms for the HOA, water board etc., and #I've got a place in Fraser is spinning some yard to make themselves look like a full time resident. Pro-tip a. no you are not b. nobody cares. These are wealthy adults that can't even keep their bullshit straight. I ask them, "how many residences do you have where you just leave your toothbrush?".

Is the junk show gear pile generational? Do they teach it differently than when I grew up? New mellow me expects full carnage anytime I head south on 40 during the holidays, a weekend or powder day. I consider that I may no even make it skiing?

When I was leaving The Wanker Saturday said Gen Z gear pile was between me and my Hot Cocoa and Yoga with Adrienne session. I got out out and calmly explains that their were three and only tree options and they get to choose but they must do it quickly. a. they move their shit b. I move their shit or c. I run over their shit. Once then saw that is was like an Escape Room that that they could easily "Win", they moved their shit.

But year, skiing is good for now. More snow coming. Be surgical around the holidays. Don't drop F Bombs on your kids. Focus on being a good skier. Embrace the madness.

It's like pulling into pumphouse the last 3 years. Unreal.

[snowaddict91]

Pretty okay turns by the end of the day at Powderhorn today. Not a bad change of pace from the epic-verse.

[Full Trucker]

Graupel in Salida.

[skaredshtles]

Graupel in Salida.

Mmmm... graupel.

[fastfred]

not sure where the snow is at

hey can one of you beaters in the eagle valley take a photo of the 1988 brown van loaded down with the gotos gear been parked on the frontage road in vail all last week while they were shredding the knar at the truck stop resort the thing is the winner of the gotos contest but hey they may have moved onto better ski resorts by now was driving to avon all last week and didn't have time to stop to take a photo

[goldenboy]

Mmmm... graupel.

Graupel skis amazing. There are apparently a few pages or even a chapter in Dolores LaChapelle's book about the joys of skiing deep graupel snow.

[goldenboy]

Anyone interested in a 3 day Avy rescue/ WFA course in CB? This sounds like an awesome refresher course for me, but I guess Billy tends to struggle getting people interested in it- so I'm trying to find people so we could make it happen.

[skaredshtles]

Graupel skis amazing. There are apparently a few pages or even a chapter in Dolores LaChapelle's book about the joys of skiing deep graupel snow.

Yeah - I was fortunate to be able to ski a foot of fresh graupel a number of years ago at Jackson... a unique experience, for sure.

[summit]

Love the idea of a WFA combo with Rescue

[~mikey b]

that would be a great class

[adrenalated]

WFA + CR sounds like the perfect class for people to take on a regular basis.
I'm due for CR this year and if I hadn't just done a WFR recert I would be 100% into that.

[doebedoe]

+2 on the perfect class combo to take every few years but wrong year for me. I'll be due for CR next season and would like to add WFA to OEC cert.

[Leshphilling77]

pretty cold one at the basin. snow on slalom was pretty nice but it was like skiing in a cloud early in the day. Davis off of beavers was some rough survival skiing and sliding, woof. Things look good out there and have to be so close to opening, despite what I imagine are funky layers going on in the pack, we just need a real storm to actually hit. Was doing that hazy trying to snow but just too cold thing.

[Name Redacted]

pretty cold one at the basin. snow on slalom was pretty nice but it was like skiing in a cloud early in the day. Davis off of beavers was some rough survival skiing and sliding, woof. Things look good out there and have to be so close to opening, despite what I imagine are funky layers going on in the pack, we just need a real storm to actually hit. Was doing that hazy trying to snow but just too cold thing.

Pali and the spine area still not open? Radical, Challenger, Standard? None of that open still? Kinda weird because I've seen them open with much less snow on that stuff. Can't all be due to shitty snowpack layers.

[skiracer88_00]

Pali and the spine area still not open? Radical, Challenger, Standard? None of that open still? Kinda weird because I've seen them open with much less snow on that stuff. Can't all be due to shitty snowpack layers.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I'm not sure patrol was out ski-packing that stuff this year like they usually do. Al posted a picture on his blog of a pretty large slide to the ground right under the lift on Turbo about a week back.

[Name Redacted]

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I'm not sure patrol was out ski-packing that stuff this year like they usually do. Al posted a picture on his blog of a pretty large slide to the ground right under the lift on Turbo about a week back.

They started on Sunday, at least with the Spine area. Bombs and ski cuts, a few ran but not huge. It is weird that they haven't been working it as hard, probably a combination of factors including short staffing, shitty snow layers, Lenawee not being open...still. Etc. Whatever, I just hope they hold off on opening it till Friday now so I can get first whack at it, haha.

[doebedoe]

Some folks who ski at Loveland may know Mags (ICU nurse, volunteer patroller) and Chris (patrol supervisor). They've been dealt a shitty hand: https://gofund.me/f0ec41cd

[Leshphilling77]

Pali and the spine area still not open? Radical, Challenger, Standard? None of that open still? Kinda weird because I've seen them open with much less snow on that stuff. Can't all be due to shitty snowpack layers.

was not, didn't look like it was going to either. they were bombing it and doing lots of ski cutting today so hopefully really soon. spine looks phat and ready but face looks pretty sharky, I know that can be typical but still. hopefully we can get some accumulation out of the rest of this storm!

len parks is definitely good to go but still not open even though you could get there now by taking pali to beavers, must be saving that one for the lenx opener which still sounds like this week.

[Truckee Joe]

Steamboat did get walloped. I don't know what the resort reported but it skied very deep in spots. I got to be the first person of the season down Christmas tree at 2pm. It was still dumping when i got off at 3. Hopefully this flow keeps up.


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[bamboocoreONLY]

3rd Tuesday in a row with great snow at Vail. Summit getting skimped with this one so far