Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[GoatRodeo]

I'm in the market for new alpine skis and boots and would like to take 3-4 combos out for the day to see what works. Any slope side shop recommendations at WP or Copper mountain that you all recommend?

Id take bamboocore up on his offer - best in the biz over at slope style!


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[timackie]

Thanks for the Slope Style offer. Let me figure out boots and I'll drop you a line.

[bamboocoreONLY]

Breck doing what it does best during long high pressure, great wind buff and elevation keeping snow cold.

[goldenboy]

I've been pretty grumpy about the snow, glad to say it was justified. In the 50 years that billy barr has been measuring snow out in Gothic, Jan2025 was the second worst ever.

[funkendrenchman]

Ajax is still skiing great. Amazing chalk and relatively grippy groomers. Could definitely use a few weeks of storms though.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Its pretty brutal out around here am last nights winds will no have helped. Its been a pretty good winter up until now. Pow days keep falling on the weekend which is a hard pass at the ski area for me. SNOTELs have regressed back towards average and the cold snap seems to have exacerbated the persistent slab problem. But all but the most legendary season have their ups and downs. Be patient and get out on the good days. I've scouted and build trail on the sled out to some lines I've never skied before.

[BFD]

definitely a bad season at Wolf Creek. Backcountry is deadfall and facets. I am impressed at how well the ski area has held up. I go up around 3 days a week and always have a good time. But probably time for a road trip.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Full blow down at Wanker Park today. Most lifts on wind hold. Gusts over 75mph at Lunch Rock. No way to ski from Winter Park to Mary Jane.

Good day to get some chores done and catch up on office work.

[ski-wpk]

Wind blew some nice soft stuff into the bump lines off Iron Horse and C chair today. Just skied back to WP side off Iron Horse. Weird to see it so empty mid season.

[ASmileyFace]

It's 50 fucking degrees in Silverton today with warmer days on the horizon. Strangest winter I can remember in my 13 years in the San Juans. I've skied a lot of pow, but damn it would be nice for the storm track to swap south for a bit

[Foggy_Goggles]

Yep, 53deg at my house at 8400. We are gonna loose a lot of snow in the valley this week. The dirt roads are gonna be rugged when is freezes.

[The SnowShow]

Sixty eight in Denver today. Got a nice gravel ride in near Boulder before the winds picked up.

[Danno]

moving sucks

[Name Redacted]

Grey AF yesterday. Dark storm clouds that dropped no precip. Ugh. Skiing was nice though, snow conditions holding up well at the Basin on N faces, a little cream cheese here and there from the winds. Sunny today, so might make some afternoon laps. Need snow someday here, but hey, I'm out for surgery this coming weekend so it'll probably dump.

[bamboocoreONLY]

I really enjoyed Copper today, some awesome long pitches of wind loaded. Especially that one directly lookers right next to 3 bears

[shera]

I'm glad to hear it. I'll head back there next time. Today and last friday and a couple of days before that I skied the east side (again and again and again) and I guess I'm bored of it, at least the part below spalding. Last Friday Resolution chair was down (mechanical?) so I lapped all the way down to the bottom of Alpine. I only got two laps up storm king today before they closed it, I guess it was wind hold. So I skied the resolution face a couple of times, which I never do usually, and it was wind loaded and really fun!

I think I've skied every east side run in the last week.

[Leshphilling77]

spine was skiing real nice and smooth past couple days. so damn hot out there though

[Name Redacted]

Not warm enough to melt really, wind kept snow temps down. Beautiful day for skiing, wish I wasn't gonna be outta the game for the next two weeks.

[whipski]

Been mtn biking. Skied Monarch Saturday. Surprised that surface conditions were so good. No rocks! Back to the bike as I'm a powder snob, where's ULLR?

[timackie]

It is 52 degrees at 9 am at winter park's base today. WTF?

Any chance that this will rectify our persistent weak layer? Can we have an isothermal snowpack in February?

I suspect that all we will get is a thick freeze thaw crust. Just another piece to our complex snowpack puzzle.

[The Nuclear Option]

It is 52 degrees at 9 am at winter park's base today. WTF?

Any chance that this will rectify our persistent weak layer? Can we have an isothermal snowpack in February?

I suspect that all we will get is a thick freeze thaw crust. Just another piece to our complex snowpack puzzle.

Right now we have two shitty weak snowpacks on top of each other - maybe we can add a third on top of this new crust!!!

[Name Redacted]

Takes a long time for warm temps to completely rectify a PWL, more than just a few days. Most likely just get a melt freeze crust to make things worse. Specially with the new snow Friday, should get some nice dust on crust at lower elevations. Yesterday wasn't getting slushy anywhere up at the basin except the parking lot. Maybe Zuma but I don't really go back there.

[Foggy_Goggles]

It's complicated. While the warmer weather does not change the basal facets, it may help bridge the instability and make the avalanche more difficult to trigger. CAIC says it better than me. Check the obs and read the discussion daily.

We'll see what the storm brings. I'll be up on the Pass all weekend helping facilitate some avalanche awareness education so I'll make the best of it.

[bamboocoreONLY]

Snow white and South Col in Breck are rippin right now. Super smooth

[The SnowShow]

So warm at WP/MJ. Feels like April. Shit is starting to pop through in places and the forests are littered with branches, pine cones and dirt from the recent winds. Fifty degrees when I started at nine thirty.