Colorado 2017-18 Colorado Weather and Stoke

[nay]

 

[Monique]

If this were at an angle, it could be the Upper Dunes at Breck (rather than an image I stole off the internet):

 

[ski otter 2]

Last year - a below year for snowpack early even though snow picked up late - in some places a good base for powder never formed. This was true of the back side of Copper, Mt. Chief lift especially, but also places on Union Peak. This year may well be worse. I sure hope not.

@surfandski, please don't get rid of your Spurs just yet. You may yet be glad for those huge critters. Yes, we get less in inches than the West Coast, but we get light, dry, champagne powder. Not as much heavy wet, I gather. 6" falls during a day, then 6-8 more at night, a few more before lift opens, and you have a pretty standard stellar day on the Frontrange, maybe 20+ or so times an average winter. I used fatter skis 34 out of 101 days even last winter, picking days for soft 3+" and up. Maybe as many as two dozen of those you'd probably have been very happy on even those big Spurs.

For example, once Lift 9 and Lift 8 open at Luv, and have enough base (usually a month or more ago), Spurs = big smiles on 3+" days. Same would be true at Copper, especially if the backside terrain gets enough base. (Last year was the first time that didn't happen fully since maybe 11/12 or so, as best as I can recall.) And Winter Park will have some really wonderful pow/crud days, no matter what.

P.S. On a pow/crud day, I hope they have Balsh, Bash and Mulligan's Mile* up there in Valhalla, or whatever Heaven for skiers might be called.

* classic Winter Park runs

 

[nay]

If this were at an angle, it could be the Upper Dunes at Breck (rather than an image I stole off the internet):

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And it looks so soft!

Sometimes it is. Sorta. Good thing you can’t tell just by looking.

 

[Ron]

^^^ Yep, I learned the hard way that all that looks soft and powdery just ain't always.......

 

[tball]

This looked like a great idea from the lift (Flatiron at CB):



See it kick my butt at 2:15 here.

 

[MarkP]

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Gotta remember this for the next Scrabble game!

 

[coskigirl]

Copper Bowl either Friday 11-12 or Saturday.

 

[TexasStout]

And it looks so soft!

Sometimes it is. Sorta. Good thing you can’t tell just by looking.

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^^^That's what I was talking about.

 

[Blue Streak]

A-Basin reports the Steep Gullies are open. They actually report everything open except for East Wall and Zuma hike back terrain.

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Right.
And Trump weighs 239.

 

[MarkP]

A week late but had a great couple of days last week at Breck. Ullr-fest pleased the god and he rewarded the mountain with 5ish" for Thursday and 10+" for Friday. And the opening of the top of Peak 6 was fantastic.

 

[Blue Streak]

Tree skiing is still very limited.

I don’t get it. We don’t need no snow.
I’m shreddin’ the gnar!

 

[dbostedo]

... a narrow ski is the best choice. In my case its the Monster 88's.

Sorry... I don't mean to laugh... but you just called the Monster 88 narrow. You people out west are funny.

 

[Ken_R]

Sorry... I don't mean to laugh... but you just called the Monster 88 narrow. You people out west are funny.

jajaja yeah, for us thats narrow...

 

[Monique]

Wait, my narrow ski right now is 96 ...

 

[nay]

Wait, my narrow ski right now is 96 ...

Mine is 106. Also the same waist as my fat ski.

Skinny skis are just a lack of imagination for where the soft snow is .

 

[nay]

Gotta remember this for the next Scrabble game!

Especially the swap in of the “Z”.

 

[Ron]

Sorry... I don't mean to laugh... but you just called the Monster 88 narrow. You people out west are funny.

Hey, there shall be no fat shaming here.

 

[Ron]

....and some of us here in the "west" still call our 78 underfoot skis dailydrivers

 

[Ron]

Right.
And Trump weighs 239.

OMG, I seriously almost spewed coffee on my keyboard. Thanks for the AM humor