Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

**BFD** · 03-19-2025, 07:44 PM

south San Juans could be a fire hazard. Season snowpack trend graph on open snow has this looking like worst year ever. March has been good. 24 in 24 last Friday was a great reminder of how it should be. Skied the Plunge to the bottom today. First time all season. Shuttle runs never happened. Skied a south facing run at Lizard Head Pass last week. We have not had skiable snow on the south sides all season. 60's next week in the valley. Trails are dry shorts will be on.

**SKIP IN7RO** · 03-19-2025, 08:17 PM

yep, I have it in the bottom 5 seasons since 1987 for SWE, rio will prob peak in April, all four storms were blacked-out for the "cheap" pass, can't get much worse than this year.

**Shredhead** · 03-20-2025, 07:00 AM

The big Thanksgiving storm set Aspen up with a good base. But we've definitely been short on powder days since then.
Been skiing lots of groomers this year and actually thinking of picking up a carver.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 03-20-2025, 09:50 AM

What are the YTD snowfall numbers for your ski areas?

Berthoud/Wanker Pancake feel pretty average all the way around and the numbers seem to support that.

But I'm not an everyday skier. I like to think I'm either skiing or snowmobiling on most of the good days and I can't think of any shit days. So the pow days on Fri. and Sat. and holidays I'm not riding lifts.

I'm pretty excited for whatever spring may bring. I'd like the avi hazard to be a bit more manageable, the spring cycle to get going at the ski area for afternoon gondi laps and for the snomo access to hold on. But thats being picky.

**SWskier** · 03-20-2025, 10:14 AM

Purg is reporting 150 inches. I'm skeptical of that number as their daily snow reports are exaggerated. That said, credit to them this season for great snowmaking early and maintaining what they've had. Would definitely echo Telluride was insane yesterday. Best day of the season and probably the best day I've had there. That 13 inch report was conservative, more like 16 to 20 on Gold/Prospect. Stayed light and cold all day.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 03-20-2025, 10:37 AM

What are the YTD snowfall numbers for your ski areas?

Berthoud/Wanker Pancake feel pretty average all the way around and the numbers seem to support that.

But I'm not an everyday skier. I like to think I'm either skiing or snowmobiling on most of the good days and I can't think of any shit days. So the pow days on Fri. and Sat. and holidays I'm not riding lifts.

I'm pretty excited for whatever spring may bring. I'd like the avi hazard to be a bit more manageable, the spring cycle to get going at the ski area for afternoon gondi laps and for the snomo access to hold on. But thats being picky.

**goldenboy** · 03-21-2025, 08:48 AM

^^ Not using the quote function hoping to avoid all the weird TGR coding...

CB went over two hundred for the season a couple of days ago. And it almost feels inflated. But that number doesn't tell the story either way. Most of the steep terrain that I care about slid during the Thanksgiving storm. What was left were well developed facets that couldn't hold up to subsequent storms or skier traffic. Combined with long dry spells and three warm-ups, most of this year has been very poor quality. The last two weeks finally felt something close to normal after good base building March storms, right as we head towards closing.

It's been a good week up at Irwin, with seventy inches in the last seven days. And a season total of three hundred sixty five.

I shadowed a level two course three weeks ago at Berthoud and thought that your snowpack was in far better shape. Even then it was over two meters and starting to round at the bottom of the snowpack where we were digging.

**BFD** · 03-21-2025, 09:09 AM

probed yesterday 150cm. March storms finally collapsed the dept hoar. Settlement cones finally showing. We have mid January snowpack.

**hawkgt** · 03-22-2025, 04:49 PM

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MJ/WP skied really fricking good this morning.  There were lines but we managed to ski on lifts pretty much all day.  The herds managed to keep together at obvious lifts so made a nice day.  </p>

**Shredhead** · 03-22-2025, 05:37 PM

Snowmass was really good as well, but a little windy up high.

Aspen Ski Co doesn't publish YTD
and I'm not sure I'd believe it anyway.

McClure and Schofield Pass snow plots are around 90%, Independence Pass is 101%.
So slightly below average.

I've always maintained, it's more important, how and when it falls,
than total snowfall.

We're lucky, because Aspen Mountain skis really well early season with minimal base.
Then Highlands and Snowmass open up tons of additional terrain,
right before Christmas.

**Name Redacted** · 03-22-2025, 06:39 PM

Kicking off all kinds of nice windslabs and sloughs around the basin steeps this afternoon. Beautiful day up there. Hope the snow keeps up overnight.

**Lvovsky** · 03-23-2025, 07:56 PM

Anyone in Telluride this week Tuesday-Wednesday?

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**Shredhead** · 03-24-2025, 03:31 PM

Aspen Mountain is spring skiing, as good as it gets.

The swim after, is pretty nice too!

**Shredhead** · 03-24-2025, 11:20 PM

Big day with your best friend, followed by a night at the Belly Up.

Shakey Graves rocked the house.

**goldenboy** · 03-25-2025, 09:16 AM

Today's messaging from the CBAC, they always bring the laughs: If you have an extra minute today, please shade some snow for us. This will be like hugging the snowpack as it is going through a rough stretch in life.

Interesting week in avy forecasts, with the CBAC and CAIC not matching up their danger ratings two of the last three days. Goes to show how hard that is

**shera** · 03-26-2025, 02:00 PM

It was def spring skiing at Copper yesterday and south facing copper bowl was more fun than three bears. I was getting that crazy surge. I guess it'll be the same tomorrow and I should put on some yellow wax? I usually don't even scrape it off, just iron on a thin layer.

**Shredhead** · 03-26-2025, 04:35 PM

Skiing's really good in Aspen, but it's melting fast.

Sometimes just crayon on the wax works. You just want to break the suction.

**bamboocoreONLY** · 03-26-2025, 04:48 PM

perfect few days in Moab, empty out there late march as always and almost 80 degrees felt amazing. April it starts to get crazy

**Foggy_Goggles** · 03-27-2025, 10:10 AM

Yesterday afternoon was great at Wanker Park and The Jane. I'm a fan of the spring skiing vibe. Today looks like it may work then we are keeping our fingers crossed for a legit reset. I'm hopefully that week get a nice spackling otherwise the DOC will be brutal. And so it goes.

**Shredhead** · 03-27-2025, 10:24 AM

1A's already soft a 10. Today and tomorrow will be good, with increasing clouds.

Lots of moisture coming, it will all depend on how and when it arrives.

**Elkhound Odin** · 03-29-2025, 01:21 PM

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Pano & EW closed. And SG running half speed, in between long stops.

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**Shredhead** · 03-29-2025, 05:46 PM

Snowmass only got an inch.
But the sun came out and softened everything up.
Big party at the cabin.

**goldenboy** · 03-29-2025, 08:27 PM

I keep saying it's been an incredibly bad year in CB, and now, for the first time ever, they couldn't pull off the Grand Traverse (or Reverse). Cancelled. I'd be so bummed if I had been training on shitty gear all winter to get a full cancellation.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 03-30-2025, 05:51 AM

That is bad. A friend was doing his tenth Traverse and was then gonna be done. Lame.

I heard there were power issues at WP leading to the lift situation. Spring Break ends today. We will see what the remainder of the season brings for lift operations. Conditions are fat but labor budgets will bring closings.