Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[hatchgreenchile]

I laughed Micol, funny way to describe the scene.

Not skiing stoke, but did poke around RMNP (Hidden Valley sledding is sick on a 3” base) and got a decent view of the East Troublesome aftermath. Tons of trails still closed; you can drive to the Cub Lake TH and get a close up look at where the fire tore through Moraine Park and the Big T headwaters

[BFD]

Hopefully, weekends and seasons like this will help WC fund a future expansion into bigger terrain like they've been planning for years.

If if bigger terrain means Wolf Creek will be a shit show all the time I hope Davey drops the idea.

[fastfred]

#trustfundvanlife

haters gonna hate

[TransplantedFromRMNP]

Looks like some burn scar glades on Flattop wow


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[ballackout]

Front range bro here (no Sprinter, unfortunately).

Wolf Creek was stellar all weekend, but this morning was the highlight. Skied all over the mountain yesterday and stuck with Alberta all day today. A couple 15 minute waits around mid-morning, but otherwise the line was fairly manageable. And we skied untracked snow basically all day (including on our last run at 2pm).

Snow was still flying when we left and wind was ripping up top meaning that Alberta and Knife were refilling basically every lap. Tomorrow should be excellent.

[Name Redacted]

If if bigger terrain means Wolf Creek will be a shit show all the time I hope Davey drops the idea.

I don't think that would be the case with expanded terrain and added lifts.

[cmsummit]

There were a LOT of people. But seems like the vast majority have no idea where to go at Wolf Creek and I had zero issues finding full, untracked lines until I left at 2:00pm.

Tomorrow should be interesting.

Yep, yesterday was the busiest day I've ever experienced at WC........at least off Alberta Chair. Certainly the product of powder-starved CO skiers and $58 lift tickets on a Sunday. Waited in a handful of 15 minute lift lines.....not too terrible, IMO. That said, I too was finding deep turns until I bailed at 2:45.....whooped. A great day, overall.

I'm headed to Sheepshead Cabin back down that way for Thursday - Sunday.....looks like great timing for deep snow braaaping and skiing.

Is there a rule of thumb for opening the t-bars? Like how many inches of base?

I believe it's around ~45" base depth to open parts of the Headwall and main North Face, but goldenboy can certainly better answer that. There's a difference between a 45" settled base depth in December and that same depth in late January that's mostly facet snow.

[The SnowShow]

Yep, yesterday was the busiest day I've ever experienced at WC........at least off Alberta Chair. Certainly the product of powder-starved CO skiers and $58 lift tickets on a Sunday. Waited in a handful of 15 minute lift lines.....not too terrible, IMO. That said, I too was finding deep turns until I bailed at 2:45.....whooped. A great day, overall.

I'm headed to Sheepshead Cabin back down that way for Thursday - Sunday.....looks like great timing for deep snow braaaping and skiing.



I believe it's around ~45" base depth to open parts of the Headwall and main North Face, but goldenboy can certainly better answer that. There's a difference between a 45" settled base depth in December and that same depth in late January that's mostly facet snow.

But did you have a Benz sprinter?

[CherryMoon]

#trustfundvanlife

SOP... sell your San Jose/LA property you bought for $1.5MM for $2.5MM after paying no more than 20% of it off, gains go to your Denver downpayment on new $1MM property, surplus goes to $80k benz sprinter you'll use 5-10 days/yr & rest dumped blindly into bubble stock market. "Gonna live da overlanderz mt life."

I actively monitor property in JH/Montana/Idaho/NE Wa. Been in Denver since 06, wife native... get me the f out! If it weren't for her family, we'd be raising our girls far away.

[gmorgg]

Lobo lot provided quite a bit of entertainment in the form of 2wd sprinter vans! Did some laps early Saturday and came back to an absolute clusterfuck at the lot. We were trapped while a stuck sprinter van tried to figure out how to put chains on for the first time ever. Glad we didn't have anywhere to be.

[blazes_boylan]

SOP... sell your San Jose/LA property you bought for $1.5MM for $2.5MM after paying no more than 20% of it off, gains go to your Denver downpayment on new $1MM property, surplus goes to $80k benz sprinter you'll use 5-10 days/yr & rest dumped blindly into bubble stock market. "Gonna live da overlanderz mt life."

It's breathtaking and crushing how EXPONENTIALLY this kind of thing and these kind of people have just become an invasive species. In our neighborhood in the last 5-7 years, we've become surrounded on all sides by tech transplants from CA, NY & TX who constantly tell us what an absolute bargain front range real estate prices are. Ugggggg!

[doebedoe]

It's why there's one of these on my minivan: https://tytanium.bigcartel.com/produ...sprinter-decal

[goldenboy]

I'm headed to Sheepshead Cabin back down that way for Thursday - Sunday.....looks like great timing for deep snow braaaping and skiing.

I believe it's around ~45" base depth to open parts of the Headwall and main North Face, but goldenboy can certainly better answer that. There's a difference between a 45" settled base depth in December and that same depth in late January that's mostly facet snow.

Sheepshead is going to be sick, have fun!

45" seems like a decent rule of thumb, although in recent years they've opened with a lot less. Website says 44" right now, but the rumor mill says they want another foot. Given the way West Wall is skiing, (fun but amazingly thin), another foot seems warranted.

[Full Trucker]

It's why there's one of these on my minivan: https://tytanium.bigcartel.com/produ...sprinter-decal

I'mma put one of those on my Sprinter.

[skaredshtles]

I'mma put one of those on my Sprinter.

I laffed.

[doebedoe]

I'mma put one of those on my Sprinter.

Exactly what someone from Golden would do.

[concretejungle]

SOP... sell your San Jose/LA property you bought for $1.5MM for $2.5MM after paying no more than 20% of it off, gains go to your Denver downpayment on new $1MM property, surplus goes to $80k benz sprinter you'll use 5-10 days/yr & rest dumped blindly into bubble stock market. "Gonna live da overlanderz mt life."

I actively monitor property in JH/Montana/Idaho/NE Wa. Been in Denver since 06, wife native... get me the f out! If it weren't for her family, we'd be raising our girls far away.

I’d cross the larger towns in Montana off the list. I thought it’d take longer to become Front Range light but Covid fucked that all up.

[gmorgg]

It's why there's one of these on my minivan: https://tytanium.bigcartel.com/produ...sprinter-decal

If you were up there on Friday I definitely saw a minivan with that sticker haha!

[PowTron]

Just here to say that the last three days at Wolf got better and better, but today was fucking ALL TIME. True, knee deep blowerville and a fraction of the people from the weekend. Was so much more snow than expected.

The 22-25” of hero snow under this additional 12-15” of fluff made for probably one of the best three day cycles of lift served in my entire life.

It was still snowing at 3:30pm when I left. I’d ski again tomorrow if my job didn’t decide I needed to be there to get a paycheck or something like that.

Everywhere you looked was basically this:

[toastybroski]

I’d cross the larger towns in Montana off the list. I thought it’d take longer to become Front Range light but Covid fucked that all up.

Bozeman is a total shit show. The other big towns are still pretty nice.

[ASmileyFace]

Just here to say that the last three days at Wolf got better and better, but today was fucking ALL TIME. True, knee deep blowerville and a fraction of the people from the weekend. Was so much more snow than expected.

The 22-25” of hero snow under this additional 12-15” of fluff made for probably one of the best three day cycles of lift served in my entire life.

It was still snowing at 3:30pm when I left. I’d ski again tomorrow if my job didn’t decide I needed to be there to get a paycheck or something like that.

Everywhere you looked was basically this:

Today was fucking nuts at Wolf Creek. Waited in a line on Berta maybe twice before the hike-to opened. The turns off the top of Alberta peak proper were absolutely bonkers. Glad I skipped the locals weekend and only made it up from Durango today. Basically never waited in line and was skiing untracked hero snow all day. It dumped non-stop and the refills by the afternoon kept everything else buttery soft. You could do no wrong with this snow. I won't forget this day, ever.

[The SnowShow]

Jealous. Sounds amazing.

[ASmileyFace]

Tomorrow might even be better, if that's possible. It's supposed to snow all night again LOL

It's been years since I've skied a cycle like this down here in SW. I'm almost stoked to have a mandatory rest day tomorrow (aka work).

[Viva]

Yup, today was fucking brilliant. Outstanding snow everywhere. Even the chopped shit in the upper bowls was so much fun.

I'm fixin' to ski all week, so bailed a little after noon.

I did manage to go over a covered felled tree which spun me ninety degrees and drove me into a partially buried stump. Nice gash on my thigh. Fun Times!

[concretejungle]

Bozeman is a total shit show. The other big towns are still pretty nice.

It’s not a “total shit show,” it’s just not where I’d be looking if I wanted to retire from the Front Range circus.