Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[Name Redacted]

Does anybody know how I can find out the lowest temp last winter in my town?

Scan through the monthly here:
https://www.wunderground.com/history...leadville/KLXV

[BFD]

Going to put a plug in for new cabins in the Penitente area.
https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/land/c...6-HVQKXmdJWmBQ
all proceeds go to benefit SLV GO the organization that builds and maintains bike trails in the San Luis Valley. It looks like they use Hipcamp to book the cabins.

[Name Redacted]

Going to put a plug in for new cabins in the Penitente area.
https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/land/c...6-HVQKXmdJWmBQ
all proceeds go to benefit SLV GO the organization that builds and maintains bike trails in the San Luis Valley. It looks like they use Hipcamp to book the cabins.

That's cool, but $119 is pretty steep for those tiny things. I just drove through yesterday. Are those big geodesic dome things rentals?

Love that area though, I'll probably haul the camper down there soon for some biking.

[bamboocoreONLY]

Those cabins made me think of the super awkwardly placed airbnb at the loma i70 exit next to horsethief. So out of place, bet it's cool inside though.

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9589085...d-26d6e3cc57f6

[shera]

Scan through the monthly here:
https://www.wunderground.com/history...leadville/KLXV

Thanks! Lowest I could find was -7F Dec 25th. I thought we get down to -30 but maybe it's the climate change.

Anyway, it was so perfect on the ski hill today. Brisk. North facing was even chalky.

[Name Redacted]

East wall was incredible today… again.

[FiveLarge]

Thanks! Lowest I could find was -7F Dec 25th. I thought we get down to -30 but maybe it's the climate change.

Anyway, it was so perfect on the ski hill today. Brisk. North facing was even chalky.

I would guess most years, it does get that cold. I think it was a very mild winter overall.

[SKIP IN7RO]

Going to put a plug in for new cabins in the Penitente area.
https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/land/c...6-HVQKXmdJWmBQ
all proceeds go to benefit SLV GO the organization that builds and maintains bike trails in the San Luis Valley. It looks like they use Hipcamp to book the cabins.

I hope they rent the shit out of them because Penitente needed a lot of work last time I was there.

[MakersTeleMark]

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/da...0093009/detail

You'll have to enter the month and the year, but it's all there.

[MakersTeleMark]

Going to put a plug in for new cabins in the Penitente area.
https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/land/c...6-HVQKXmdJWmBQ
all proceeds go to benefit SLV GO the organization that builds and maintains bike trails in the San Luis Valley. It looks like they use Hipcamp to book the cabins.

Fuck that shit.

[cmsummit]

Hearing reports of a younger ripper (possibly a CU Boulder student) who was attempting a road gap over US40 on the WP side yesterday, came up short and died. Fack, terrible. RIP ripper.



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[rudy]

Sounds like it was a 21 year old from WP. So sad…


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[hawkgt]

Hearing reports of a younger ripper (possibly a CU Boulder student) who was attempting a road gap over US40 on the WP side yesterday, came up short and died. Fack, terrible. RIP ripper.



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Dam, terrible to read. RIP

[shera]

oh man

[shera]

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/da...0093009/detail

You'll have to enter the month and the year, but it's all there.

Thanks

[shera]

East wall was incredible today… again.

Copper closes April 28 and I hope to head over there at some point. Are you hiking up, like narrow north pole, willies wide, notches? Around this time of year I would do a big loop, hike past all that and into chihuahua, ski sunny aspect and then up and over into marjory and that was facing north, very nice winter conditions. I loved that route.

Anyway, I wanted to ask, are they still closing pali early nowadays? Wouldn't mind some slush bumps...

[Name Redacted]

Copper closes April 28 and I hope to head over there at some point. Are you hiking up, like narrow north pole, willies wide, notches? Around this time of year I would do a big loop, hike past all that and into chihuahua, ski sunny aspect and then up and over into marjory and that was facing north, very nice winter conditions. I loved that route.

Anyway, I wanted to ask, are they still closing pali early nowadays? Wouldn't mind some slush bumps...

Yesterday east was 100% open till 2:45. I skied vertical cornice and hiked willie’s to booger ramp. Pali was open till 3:30. I’ve ridden Chihuahua Marjory 20-30 times (even hiked the trench as a third run a few times) in the past but toned down my risk tolerance the last few years. Maybe if things relax a bit in the coming weeks.

BTW a CAIC guy got caught in an avy up near the tunnel. Not injured, but kinda makes ya think eh? 30 people buried in 27 avalanches over a short time period? I’ll keep hiking controlled terrain for now.

[shera]

Cool I'm glad you know that route, it's so nice.

About Pali, I mean they started closing it pretty early in the season due to it sliding wet, very very bad situation. But I wonder if they are easing off a little, like last year what did they do?

[Name Redacted]

Cool I'm glad you know that route, it's so nice.

About Pali, I mean they started closing it pretty early in the season due to it sliding wet, very very bad situation. But I wonder if they are easing off a little, like last year what did they do?

They monitor conditions and don’t close it till it is warranted i guess. I think they dig over at a spot at the top of the face to see if water is running under the snowpack too. I pretty much stop going once pali closes, unless east wall is open i guess. They had one steep gully wet slide and closed all of them a few years ago.

I guess theres no set date, they just watch the weather. Snow was staying pretty cold and firm on N faces up there the last few days. A lot better than Silverton last weekend.

[EWG]

Hearing reports of a younger ripper (possibly a CU Boulder student) who was attempting a road gap over US40 on the WP side yesterday, came up short and died. Fack, terrible. RIP ripper.s

There's a separate thread on this.

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...Pass-yesterday

So so sad.

[skiracer88_00]

Cool I'm glad you know that route, it's so nice.

About Pali, I mean they started closing it pretty early in the season due to it sliding wet, very very bad situation. But I wonder if they are easing off a little, like last year what did they do?

They are still extremely conservative compared to most ski areas that stay open late. They typically close Pali on or before Loveland's closing day. By mid-May, they rope the shit out of the place and leave only the groomers they start the season with. They don't even let you ski Lenawee parks.

Understandable I guess considering what happened in 06, but I tend to think it was more of a freak accident due to a very specific snowpack structure since plenty of ski areas (Breck, Mammoth, Palisades, Beartooth, Snowbird, etc.) keep steep terrain open late and the A-Basin slide is still the only one like that I have heard of.

[shera]

They are still extremely conservative compared to most ski areas that stay open late. They typically close Pali on or before Loveland's closing day. By mid-May, they rope the shit out of the place and leave only the groomers they start the season with. They don't even let you ski Lenawee parks.

Understandable I guess considering what happened in 06, but I tend to think it was more of a freak accident due to a very specific snowpack structure since plenty of ski areas (Breck, Mammoth, Palisades, Beartooth, Snowbird, etc.) keep steep terrain open late and the A-Basin slide is still the only one like that I have heard of.

Oh where does the time go? Here's the story from that slide that changed everything: https://www.vaildaily.com/news/inbou...sin-kills-one/

The snow always got rotty there below treeline but it was just part of it, moguls would just collapse and you could drive your tips straight into them, it was comical. But I never saw a monster top to bottom slide like that there before. And the snow off Lenawe was just normal spring consolidated. Is there pond skimming any more?

You think Pali will be spinning the first two weeks of May? And the upper east wall? Zuma and the Beavers I can live without.

[Leshphilling77]

last two years it seems like we just had rapid melting without real overnight freezes, that will shut down pali in a hurry. I was definitely hiking east wall into may last season even with a warm spring.

[summit]

I'd say post Lief Abasin has been progressive about getting terrain safely open.

For spring closures, following that incident, Abasin avalanche practictioners conducted some good research and installed instrumentation so they use multiple pieces of data to drive their closure decisions from streamflow gauges to snowpack sensors to weather stations to snow safety obs to forecasts.

[uglymoney]

Breck was pretty fun today. I think we timed the spring skiing weather just right with a huge goldilocks zone, too soft only at the bottom and a few southeast exposures. E104 were perfect.

Definitely fun to be had on this mountain and the junior freeride comp parents were everywhere spreading good vibes. Lots of Tahoe peeps.

Bluebird, everything spinning, not perfect up high but some decent wind buff. Wife and daughter had some typical Frontier flight snafus, 8 hour flight delay after turbulence or a hard landing disabled their plane, surprised us (to their credit) and flew a new plane and crew deadhead from Vegas for a 2 am departure, so we arrived at hotel at 6 am needed naps, started at noon and kinda hit and run on the high stuff to avoid killing ourselves with some altitude induced edema. Still got 20k of fun in. Win.