Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[bamboocoreONLY]

t-bar did not suck this morning, second to hit lulu's and sent the shit out of it after the first dude stomped it out haha. surprise pow and now the outlook is looking decent! I'm diggin it

[rmnpsplitter]

Not bad around our area either, solid 4-6" in the Allenspark area.

[Wildman]

Berthoud was great today.

[The SnowShow]

Holy crowded out there...do the crowds typically subside a bit right after New Years or will it be next week?

Looking like a good week of off and on snow with a NW flow and a possible heavy storm this weekend?

[bean]

Jan 1 will be pretty quiet, then shitshow thursday through Sunday.

[PowTrees]

New Year's Day is always a great day to ride! Vail is typically empty

[Like a Boss]

I can tell you my swanky little hill is an absolute monkey rodeo right now. Our on mountain restaurant did 65K yesterday.

[nicojohnson1234@gmail.com]

Poor Colorado too busy for its own good, and now this Mary Jane situation has brought in its own tourists. A lot of edibles being bought and brought back east.

[Telemarketeer]

I can tell you my swanky little hill is an absolute monkey rodeo right now. Our on mountain restaurant did 65K yesterday.

No surprise with $8 Bud Light tallboys. Yeah, it's fucking nuts around here lately.

Few runs up around LL pass yesterday and the wind was howling pretty hard.

[Full Trucker]

On Vail Pass right now, vis is less than a half mile and some decent flakes are coming down.

[bamboocoreONLY]

already dumping snow in breck. it was crazy how huge the crowds were on colorado/rocky mtn chairs but the t-bar didn't have a single wait yesterday, the wind made huge deep stashes in cucumber, too.

[hatchgreenchile]

Cold temps. WNW wind. Moisture. Tomorrow should be great.
Now I just need to get Mrs. Smokin’ out of bed at 6AM following New Years festivities.

[smitchell333]

Found this on CAIC's media site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inqQ9jrq_T8

http://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/ob...?&obs_id=21305

[rmnpsplitter]

Wrong forum Jong? All kidding aside, scary stuff for sure. I've never ever seen HV slide, or even evidence of one. Snowpack is def scary right now. Keep it low and mellow! Hope we get some good dumpage and start off 2014 right!

[smitchell333]

All those steeper wind drift/rolls can slide.

You're welcome to post a thread in Slide zone if you want:-)

I'd change the CAIC's moderate to include pockets of high danger. Between the depth hoar and the surface hoar it's dynamic and if you trigger something it will be sizable.

[Dr Donny Brook (Richard Head)]

Damn. And that was a CAIC moderate day I was up on Iron clad ridge that same day-- huge whumps in the trees.

[nicojohnson1234@gmail.com]

Warm down south, its 48 degrees at 7700ft. Send some our way.

[Shredhead]

I haven't been in a line all week. Ski on Bell all day today.

[FiveLarge]

Damn. And that was a CAIC moderate day I was up on Iron clad ridge that same day-- huge whumps in the trees.

I need to remember this to - so not pointing fingers at all - but moderate isn't low/no danger. I think people often thing considerable means I better be really careful, moderate, all is good to go. Probably because we rarely have low danger in CO and considerable is very regular.

[The SnowShow]

How is tomorrow setting up in summit/eagle with the NW flow?

[Dr Donny Brook (Richard Head)]

Who would think moderate = low? The word moderate means "average",--CAIC's definition is 2/5 where only specific features have heightened risk. In my moderate level of experience it seemed llike the risk was widespread across many types of features and terrain last week in the FR.

[bean]

I need to remember this to - so not pointing fingers at all - but moderate isn't low/no danger. I think people often thing considerable means I better be really careful, moderate, all is good to go. Probably because we rarely have low danger in CO and considerable is very regular.

The video of the slide in Hanging Valley looked solidly below treeline - rated low the time I believe.

Nice surprise on the snow reports this morning.

[The SnowShow]

Nice refresher storm...keep it coming

[bamboocoreONLY]

full on nukage in breck, 7 last night and another 7 on top of that already!

[montanaskier]

Creamy goodness at the Beav, 4-6 but pretty windy. little storm snow wind slab