Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[fool]

Any mags know the latest conditions on these routes? Or best websites / local shops to ask around? I've done some googling but not a bunch has shown up besides 14ers.com. Taking a few days off this week to ski some of them with a buddy from out of town. Planning on camping in Frisco. If anyone is getting out Wed-Fri this week, feel free to PM.

Quandary Peak, E Face (https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/peaks...140&type=14ers)
Crystal Peak, E Face (https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/peaks...450&type=13ers )
Peak 10, 4th of July Bowl
Red Peak B, Southeast Face
Buffalo Mountain, Silver Couloir
Atlantic Peak, East Face / V Couloir

[montanaskier]

Any mags know the latest conditions on these routes? Or best websites / local shops to ask around? I've done some googling but not a bunch has shown up besides 14ers.com. Taking a few days off this week to ski some of them with a buddy from out of town. Planning on camping in Frisco. If anyone is getting out Wed-Fri this week, feel free to PM.

Quandary Peak, E Face (https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/peaks...140&type=14ers)
Crystal Peak, E Face (https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/peaks...450&type=13ers )
Peak 10, 4th of July Bowl
Red Peak B, Southeast Face
Buffalo Mountain, Silver Couloir
Atlantic Peak, East Face / V Couloir

All of those still have good coverage I’d guess. Crystal, Silver, 4th bowl, and Atlantic all look pretty fat. It’s been getting warm early though with mainly light freezes so I’d be ready to drop anything facing East by 9.


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[goldenboy]

Soaked. Greenest I've ever seen it in some areas

Meanwhile out west, I'm wondering how much longer until the fire bans start. Scary dry.

[tang]

Montanaskier... another to consider is quandary couloir, off north side, a few hundred feet down from summit. There was a 14er condition report from a week or so ago and some melting out near bottom but cool line and likely still well filled in
Torrey’s north side (emperor and tuning forks) also not far away and still in good condition

[simple]

Meanwhile out west, I'm wondering how much longer until the fire bans start. Scary dry.

Yeah it is a different story out west. The Pine area is green. Haven't seen it like that since before the fire 30 years ago

[zartagen]

Yesterday near Rifle, I got rained on for 3 hours straight. The orange and green hills outside Glenwood were eye popping this morning.

[Foggy_Goggles]

What's really cool is the grass and wildflowers sprouting in the East Troublesome burn. What's not cool is driving through the rubble of properties where the homeowners were uninsured at haven't even started to clean up.

[Name Redacted]

Get out and look for some Black Morels! Buddy of mine stumbled onto a massive supply a few years ago after a fire up by Rabbit Ears.

https://www.foragecolorado.com/post/...ls-in-colorado

[glademaster]

Yesterday near Rifle, I got rained on for 3 hours straight. The orange and green hills outside Glenwood were eye popping this morning.

No rain to speak of all weekend just a few miles further south.

[Elkhound Odin]

The ticks are loving all the wetness. I can't walk my dogs on the neighborhood trails without them picking up at least one. Reminds me when I lived back east.

[fool]

All of those still have good coverage I’d guess. Crystal, Silver, 4th bowl, and Atlantic all look pretty fat. It’s been getting warm early though with mainly light freezes so I’d be ready to drop anything facing East by 9.


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Thanks, MS! That's what I was hoping for.

[The SnowShow]

Here comes the rain again. Feels like we’re already in monsoon season in the Front Range. Apex/Enchanted Forest is going to be like a rain forest soon.

[The SnowShow]

Glowing at Red Rocks

[glademaster]

Dry as fuck still in the Crystal River Valley.

But there does seem to be a bumper crop of ticks this spring. I assume that was due to how mild last winter was. I can hardly walk to my mailbox without picking up a couple of the little fuckers.

I'm about 2 hikes away from setting up a permethrin dunk tank on the front porch.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

[smmokan]

Here comes the rain again. Feels like we’re already in monsoon season in the Front Range. Apex/Enchanted Forest is going to be like a rain forest soon.

I don't think that was monsoon season, just the standard spring storms (albeit way more than usual). It just went from cool spring to hot summer overnight it seems... let's hope everyone gets an actual monsoon season this year.

[timackie]

I climbed and skied Mt Evans yesterday and would not recommend. Though the sunrise from summit lake was breathtaking, we found a thick, frozen crust on top of 6” or so of unconsolidated crap. There was a fair bit of frozen avi debris to make it worse. I’m not sure if the boot back or the ski was worse, but all involved were happy to make it down safely.

I met a young lady today who found similar conditions on Torreys tuning fork yesterday before rag dolling down it. Sounds like she needed S&R for evac but no life threatening injuries.

I don’t see many more freeze/thaw cycles coming our way and doubt that things will consolidate. It’s MTB season for this guy.

[The SnowShow]

Good times at ABasin closing day this morning, before it got jam packed. Lake Reveal did reveal and was a blast.

[Name Redacted]

Sounds like 6 people were caught on Torreys in a avalanche/rock slide today.

[Shredhead]

Got a pretty good soak on Capitol today.

[Kinnikinnick]

Not good freeze and HOT temps. Turns were good Saturday above treeline east face...until about 9am

Then sticky slop.


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[fool]

Hit Quandary E Face on 6/3 and Geissler on 6/4.
From the Quandary trail head it was 1.5 miles until we hit snow. Good, fun day with pretty solid conditions: started down after 10 and probably should have followed MS’ advice and started down closer to 9/9:30.
For Geissler we only made it to the saddle, but W Geissler doesn’t seem to have enough snow left. E Geissler still looked good, from what I could tell.


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[tang]

Some conditions from Indian Peaks after a Sat/Sun up there...

On Sat, Skywalker was pretty good on the up, until Lea and then it became a soft granulated mess. Stable enough to climb (at least relatively early) but certainly not to ski - 55+ deg, would've just all slid off. Worked down the ridge, but was similar, so had to downclimb and traverse back into the main run. Was then super heavy, just worked our way safely down. We took the lead from a group who had a headstart on us, thank you. Skywalker Sat was crowded, but mostly climbing groups. On Sun only saw one climbing group going up there in the AM.




On Sun, after some great beta from two on their way back, we hit North Star on N Arap. Much better snow (north facing) and super great line. Well filled in, although need to downclimb a rock section between summit and main couloir. A week earlier prob could have skied it from the summit.




Neva looked well filled in still, but prob needs some cold clear nights to lock it back up




Ditto Jasper, all faces and ridges (2nd pic actually one ridge south)




And the forbidden fruit of South Arap east face... looking very Alaska-esque

[Danno]

A+++ post, will read again.

[The SnowShow]

^^^great posts/pics. Love that area of the IPW.