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02-20-2018, 07:04 PM #24701Registered User
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It was damn cold today.
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02-20-2018, 07:33 PM #24702
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02-20-2018, 07:40 PM #24703Registered User
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02-20-2018, 09:04 PM #24704
Due North aspect ~10,500ft in RMNP (Banana Bowls area). Apparently, that's where all of the blowing snow in the the state of CO collects.
Based on all the scrub poking through I would've guessed <100cm. But I measured multiple spots on the E facing rib most people skin up, before digging the pit lower down, and nearly buried the probe every time.
Side note: Digging 2m worth of finger/pencil/knife was fucking tiring, and took forever. I've heard it said, I've said it, but don't think I've ever come close to experiencing what digging real avi debris would be like. This seemed close, and was a good reminder.
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02-20-2018, 10:06 PM #24705
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02-20-2018, 11:26 PM #24706
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02-20-2018, 11:49 PM #24707
Leeward slope. One of the windiest places in the world...
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02-20-2018, 11:57 PM #24708
Glad everyone else has decent conditions, I guess, but today fucking sucked. Dust on crust, cold, windy, flat light. Doesn't get much worse. It just isn't Crested Butte's year in any way shape or form.
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02-21-2018, 12:10 AM #24709
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02-21-2018, 07:45 AM #24710Registered User
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02-21-2018, 09:23 AM #24711
Colorado Weather Discussion Thread
This is one reason pits are of dubious value - especially single pits - I bet 300’ away there was 50cm with 1/2 of it depth hoar.
Digging a pit in the one huge wind drift won’t tell you anything other than what’s happening in that one wind drift.
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02-21-2018, 10:34 AM #24712
I generally agree, and spatial variability is one of a few reasons I don't dig often. If I dig more than a hand pit, it happens at the end of the day after the skiing is done. This allows me to get some global snowpack info on a zone, and remove pit interpretation from that day's decision-making process completely.
In this case, the entire zone is the "one huge wind drift" and given that multiple probe locations on differing elevations and aspects produced notably similar data, I think it's reasonable to extrapolate some basic but useful assumptions. Far from "won't tell you anything" IMO.
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02-21-2018, 11:16 AM #24713
Colorado Weather Discussion Thread
Uh. Sort of. There are the couple big open drifts then a few pockets in the trees. Some of it is low angle and then there are some smaller steeper pockets.
Pit data can’t hurt unless you start extrapolating it broadly when it’s only limited in reference - ie start think it’s all 2m deep and solid underneath.
But I wouldn’t know 1st hand this year as I am on injured reserve.
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02-22-2018, 08:40 AM #24714Warrior of the Wasteland
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Go to the ski area, backcountry is gay
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02-22-2018, 08:41 AM #24715
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02-22-2018, 11:12 AM #24716
260cm pit... were you bored? Cold?
Originally Posted by blurred
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02-22-2018, 12:22 PM #24717
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02-22-2018, 06:38 PM #24718
Snowing in Denver. Lol
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02-22-2018, 06:50 PM #24719
It was pounding for a while. Just got on the bus, driver said he was running thirty minutes behind and it was the worst he'd ever seen it.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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02-22-2018, 07:20 PM #24720
I know we haven't had that much snow, but usually by this time they are kind of in stride. How much did D get?
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02-22-2018, 07:39 PM #24721Registered User
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02-22-2018, 07:44 PM #24722
The overwhelmed freeways in Denver are becoming useless on a normal day. Add an inch and we’re like Atl.
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02-22-2018, 08:03 PM #24723
2 inches in an hour in Lakewood right as rush hour was kicking in. Denver rush hour lasts longer than an hour.
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02-22-2018, 08:17 PM #24724
Weird, not a single flake in Niwot.
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02-22-2018, 08:18 PM #24725Registered User
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everyone thinks that just because you live in colorado you know how to drive in snow
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