Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[Danno]

Storm came in like a lion yesterday in Boulder, but fizzled last night.

[The SnowShow]

Sun's out at ABasin already. Thought it was going to dump all day?

East Wall is caked.

[Jong Lafitte]

^^ Ha!! that's fucking awesome! Also, I'm pretty sure I saw you on the BML webcam taking that pic. Lol! Get some!!

Ahhh, skiing vicariously from the keyboard.

Edit:

you?

[adrenalated]

I threatened to go up and super glue a ruler to it.

[hatchgreenchile]

Too late!

[Jong Lafitte]

^^Holy shit balls. Wow, that's close to "come back at noon" territory.

[Elkhound Odin]

More like find another hobby

[stfu&gbtw]

We didn't even stop... Complete insanity. We were driving through Keystone at 715, and passed AB at 845 or something. They were just getting ready to close the last lot. Just kept right on going... Looked like LLP reopening took everybody by surprise. Sure surprised the hell out of me! Oh well... I've got better things to do today than stand in line with 6000 angry VR pass holders. Probably could have gone yesterday if I'd tried harder, but didn't. Guess this time I'm the statue...

[Fritz]

Avy debris from my roof in Boulder. Periodic whoomphing all night and day today. Worried about my little dog. Need to get him a little studfinder.

[cmsummit]

We were driving through Keystone at 715, and passed AB at 845 or something.

That's fucking insane.

[Kinnikinnick]

Jesus H.

I remember skiing a late season powder day like this in the mid 90s at A-basin and there was fucking no-one. Like 10 of us on the whole place. Times change

#goskiingwithyourfriends(all 10,000 of them) #coloradogoesbigtime #movebacktomiddleamericaplease #hashtags are lame

[Soups]

Was this today and how was it not posted here?? Hahaha

[stfu&gbtw]

Jesus H.

I remember skiing a late season powder day like this in the mid 90s at A-basin and there was fucking no-one. Like 10 of us on the whole place. Times change

#goskiingwithyourfriends(all 10,000 of them) #coloradogoesbigtime #movebacktomiddleamericaplease #hashtags are lame

Still lots of those days... Posted pics of one from a couple of weeks ago. I think yesterday was one of them. But today was not... lol...

[The SnowShow]

Was this today and how was it not posted here?? Hahaha

How is that real? Jerry for sure.

We need to convince places like Breck and Loveland to stay open later. What a shitshow at ABasin.

[Soups]

LL will most likely never stay open passed early May. I guees it's in their lease with the USFS and I guess it's a different office since they are in Clear Creek County, more strict. It's due to their migration corridor since they are the largest land bridge along I-70 due to the tunnel.

[jacob_dbu]

Hey mags, looking for some snow advice for those more knowledgeable than I.

Would you ski A-Basin Saturday or Sunday this weekend if you had to pick one? Saturday has the crowds, but I'm afraid it might be cement slush Sunday as it warms up (39 high).

[Kinnikinnick]

Still lots of those days... Posted pics of one from a couple of weeks ago. I think yesterday was one of them. But today was not... lol...

Yeah, maybe some other areas were still open? Back when I'm talking about they didn't have the Epic passes and what not. Now you have a LOT of people who have Abasin rights and its the only game in town.

Hey mags, looking for some snow advice for those more knowledgeable than I.

Would you ski A-Basin Saturday or Sunday this weekend if you had to pick one? Saturday has the crowds, but I'm afraid it might be cement slush Sunday as it warms up (39 high).

I think that you just answered your own question.

[stfu&gbtw]

How is that real? Jerry for sure.

We need to convince places like Breck and Loveland to stay open later. What a shitshow at ABasin.

Every now and then, someone gets drunk enough that they can be convinced to try to jump the wall... Seems like usually not until closing day though...

#PROGRESSTHESPORT

Yeah, maybe some other areas were still open? Back when I'm talking about they didn't have the Epic passes and what not. Now you have a LOT of people who have Abasin rights and its the only game in town.

Pretty sure the day I'm referring to was after all the big resorts closed - would have been just AB and LL... And no one was at LL. But also, that was a Thursday and there wasn't a huge storm beforehand - just seven or eight consecutive 2"-6" days. Lately, I haven't even been going on Fridays... Kicking myself for not having just dropped what I was doing yesterday.

[skaredshtles]

Jesus H.

I remember skiing a late season powder day like this in the mid 90s at A-basin and there was fucking no-one. Like 10 of us on the whole place.

Was this the MONSTER May storm that was kinda upside down? I remember some monster May dump back in the 90's and we were skiing Pali on skinny skis in fucking TRAPDOOR shit.

People were SENDING the big rocks off International... it was impressive.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

I skied A basin this spring and there were very few people on the mountain, never waited in any lift lines, it was a saturday too and it was super fun. It's not complicated.

[Kinnikinnick]

Was this the MONSTER May storm that was kinda upside down? I remember some monster May dump back in the 90's and we were skiing Pali on skinny skis in fucking TRAPDOOR shit.

People were SENDING the big rocks off International... it was impressive.

I remember a few of those days. There was this one year (94 or 95?) when it just puked from April until June. I had access to some discount pass or something and went up a number of times. One I remember was in June - 3' of heavy powder but I had picked up these heli skiing skis at like 100 underfoot that everyone thought were clown skis back then and would snicker at on the lifts but they worked like magic in that heavy powder while everyone else had skinny skis and were tip diving all over.

[Lindahl]

Yeah, maybe some other areas were still open? Back when I'm talking about they didn't have the Epic passes and what not. Now you have a LOT of people who have Abasin rights and its the only game in town.

Nah, it was 2 Wednesdays ago. I had my own personal East Wall line that day. Patrol put in one track, the rest (all 6) were mine. Definitely empty, definitely awesome. It wasn't 2 feet, but it skied about the same as today (unless you're into the whole 'slash for the camera' shit that everyone posts these days).

Was at the lift line around 830 (parked around 745-800?) and it wasn't that bad at all honestly. Lift lines were pretty reasonable for the most part. Zuma cornice was awesomeness - impossible to send the cornice with too much speed hah. Pillowedlandings for sure. So much fun. Got North Pole right when it opened. After that was the first real lift line I was in all day. Did one more hike and called it. Finished up with some LL pass southside laps. Great day.

[North]

Are N aspects staying cold? Everything I skied in dry gulch this afternoon was hot PNW pow. No complaints, but curious if everything got hot or if there's blower to be had...

[adrenalated]

Are N aspects staying cold? Everything I skied in dry gulch this afternoon was hot PNW pow. No complaints, but curious if everything got hot or if there's blower to be had...

Dude, it's late May.

[goldengatestinx]

LL will most likely never stay open passed early May. I guees it's in their lease with the USFS and I guess it's a different office since they are in Clear Creek County, more strict. It's due to their migration corridor since they are the largest land bridge along I-70 due to the tunnel.

I've heard the migration excuse is bullshit. If ski areas didn't spend so much and work so hard to open the WROD they could postpone opening until Dec or at least Thanksgiving weekend and keep interest through May and into June.

People were smarter back in the good old days.