Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

**Shredhead** · 01-29-2013, 09:23 AM

It was dumping when I left Aspen yesterday at 2pm. Snowed hard all the way to the top of Vail pass and then it cleared up. Copper was full on sun and the approach to the tunnel was dry as a bone.

Started snowing again as soon as we got through the tunnel and continued all the way to DEN. The Dillon donut was in full effect yesterday.

**BDKeg** · 01-29-2013, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by ASmileyFace

Where are you seeing 70 inches in 72 hours for purg? I was there the last three days. More like 40 inches but still amazing.

http://www.onthesnow.com/colorado/skireport.html

ah must be a typo, 40 inches is still hella good

**bean** · 01-29-2013, 09:40 AM

Are any of the snow report aggregators not completely worthless?

**The SnowShow** · 01-29-2013, 09:44 AM

Drove to Vail from Denver...more snow down there than Dillon/Frisco. Can someone explain the donut effect of Summit? It's ridiculous this year.

**georgio** · 01-29-2013, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by ASmileyFace

Where are you seeing 70 inches in 72 hours for purg? I was there the last three days. More like 40 inches but still amazing.

Looks like Silverton was the place that got 72 inches in 72 hours. Not a bad haul.

**simple** · 01-29-2013, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

Drove to Vail from Denver...more snow down there than Dillon/Frisco. Can someone explain the donut effect of Summit? It's ridiculous this year.

Sure. Shit happens.

Go get some turns. Come back with positivity rather than constantly groaning.

**UGASkiDawg** · 01-29-2013, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by simple

Sure. Shit happens.

Go get some turns. Come back with positivity rather than constantly groaning.

Shit seems to happening a lot lately....still it is what it is deal with it

**JaytaeMoney** · 01-29-2013, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by benfjord

Yeah? No.

I'd take cream cheese any day unless the blower's deep enough to bury the base.

I apologize in advance for applying math and logic in a TGR thread, but if 13-15% PNW slop is about twice as dense as the typical 5-8% Colorado blower then wouldn't three times as much Colorado snow (12” vs 4” in djrez4's example) be better for coverage?

**djrez4** · 01-29-2013, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by JaytaeMoney

I apologize in advance for applying math and logic in a TGR thread, but if 13-15% PNW slop is about twice as dense as the typical 5-8% Colorado blower then wouldn't three times as much Colorado snow (12” vs 4” in djrez4's example) be better for coverage?

Yeah...come on you nards. My measurements may have been off, but the point remains. Lots of Colorado snow beats a little wet slop. Quit projecting your butthurt on me.

**The SnowShow** · 01-29-2013, 01:15 PM

Super fun morning in Vail..bluebird all morning, seems the next system is late

**BrianH** · 01-29-2013, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by karpiel

Fuck that snow shit, CO is the new NM. At this point, I'm waiting for the lifts to open for the MTB season.

Heh, fuck that slagging on NM shit, Taos got 22 and it's still coming down. Yeah baybee!

**Ireallyliketoski2** · 01-29-2013, 03:46 PM

definitely get out and enjoy it now, spring is right behind this storm:
temps for 12,000 feet
Friday:A 10 percent chance of snow after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 33. Breezy.
Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 15. Breezy.
Saturday Sunny, with a high near 38.
Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 19.
Sunday Partly sunny, with a high near 41.
Sunday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24.
Monday Partly sunny, with a high near 39.

**Hott Butt Mud** · 01-29-2013, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

Drove to Vail from Denver...more snow down there than Dillon/Frisco. Can someone explain the donut effect of Summit? It's ridiculous this year.

Yes, sure. I believe I have the answer to that question.

THIS

AND THIS

**rmnpsplitter** · 01-29-2013, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by Hott Butt Mud

Yes, sure. I believe I have the answer to that question.

THIS

You leave Jer's mom out of this!

**Ireallyliketoski2** · 01-29-2013, 04:26 PM

My long term forecast calls for mad nukage in summit county in late Feb->May.

**grrrr** · 01-29-2013, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by djrez4

Yeah...come on you nards. My measurements may have been off, but the point remains. Lots of Colorado snow beats a little wet slop. Quit projecting your butthurt on me.

Your fail is on oh so many levels.

So far this year, the PNW has had 60 times as 4" days as Colorado has had 12" days. Year in, year out, the PNW has 12" days (or 24" days), day after day after day. In Colorado, the masses stream out of Denver for a 4" "powder day". Last season Baker opened on a deeper base than any Colorado ski area saw during the entire season.

The heavier snow in the PNW sticks to vertical surfaces better, making it possible to ski steeper lines. It's more stable. It doesn't blow away when the wind blows, leaving rock ridges exposed. And when June comes around, there's still a 200" base to ski on.

Bottomless there actually means bottomless...not 8" on crust.

On top of that (despite what the gapic ski crowd seems to think), there is a sweet spot for snow that neither too dry (so you just ski through it), nor saturated.

And to top it all off...take out all the slop days in the PNW, and they still get more blower days than Colorado.

**smmokan** · 01-29-2013, 05:15 PM

And that folks, is why we all live in Colorado. We're a glutton for punishment.

**cmsummit** · 01-29-2013, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by grrrr

Bottomless there actually means bottomless...not 8" on crust.

I can only laugh at the brilliance in that statement.

**grrrr** · 01-29-2013, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by smmokan

And that folks, is why we all live in Colorado. We're a glutton for punishment.

Yeah, but the biking is awesome.

**cmsummit** · 01-29-2013, 05:47 PM

Silverton yesterday...

**georgio** · 01-29-2013, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by cmsummit

Silverton yesterday...

Good shit. But take'er easy on the slow mo. The first 30 seconds was painfully slow.

**XtrPickels** · 01-29-2013, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by grrrr

Bottomless there actually means bottomless...not 8" on crust.

On top of that (despite what the gapic ski crowd seems to think), there is a sweet spot for snow that neither too dry (so you just ski through it), nor saturated.

Here Here.
I love how everyone talks about "chest deep" when it splashed up on them a little bit. "Chest deep" is "I could only move if I was in the track of the guy in front of me and when I stopped I sunk up to my chest."

And I have skied the blowerest blower that ever blew and while it was an interesting feeling, it over all kinda sucked. Nothing like hauling on a crust layer while the 8" of fluff on top did nothing to slow you down or smooth the high-pressure bumps out.

Anywho, glad its snowing..

**bamboocoreONLY** · 01-29-2013, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

Super fun morning in Vail..bluebird all morning, seems the next system is late

+1. me and Cold_smokin had a sick morning. hucks in dragons teeth and in blue sky were super fun! felt good to tomahawk a landing through some deep as snow again. I definitely needed this pow day today hah

**montanaskier** · 01-29-2013, 08:52 PM

I got out to the Beav for an hour around lunch. Soft snow but pretty skied off by that time. HAMMERED this evening for like 20 min then stopped and actually cleared out. We'll see if this thing can get cranking overnight.