Late snow in 'Rado, proves crucial!
Thankfully we had a major storm roll in this weekend dropping 49 inches on Loveland and 2+ feet in the surrounding mountains. We've had a rough start up until now, but at least we have some sort of base on the ground. Got out on Saturday to Winter Park and peeped Berthoud Pass on my way out there...lookin good!! However, the storm brought 70+ mph winds so we had some major wind transporting...thus a super dangerous BC. More snow tonight, lets bury that shit!!
Erica and I headed up to Copper for the day today....sunny, with some pow stashes still available. The weekday skiing is the shit!!...we could go really fast and I could work on the high speed switch tele-turns without worrying about hords of Denverites in my way. Looks like we'll finally see a lot of terrain open for this weekend with the new snow.
We're planning on flying in to Utah on January 20th (Tuesday) and out on Sunday the 25th. Erica already requested days off so we can't change the dates, sorry crew. Hope a bunch of you can make it out that week. I promise lots of antics on and off the slopes....including some good Colorado microbrews!
Peace.....
Erica and I headed up to Copper for the day today....sunny, with some pow stashes still available. The weekday skiing is the shit!!...we could go really fast and I could work on the high speed switch tele-turns without worrying about hords of Denverites in my way. Looks like we'll finally see a lot of terrain open for this weekend with the new snow.
We're planning on flying in to Utah on January 20th (Tuesday) and out on Sunday the 25th. Erica already requested days off so we can't change the dates, sorry crew. Hope a bunch of you can make it out that week. I promise lots of antics on and off the slopes....including some good Colorado microbrews!
Peace.....
posted by TKsports! at 9:25 PM
8 Comments:
Dude-
you need a little lesson from dr on the switch yo.
cant wait to kill the westcoast in late December...
d
Uh, I know I'm no avy expert, but how does burying a wind slab make it any safer?
over a very very long time...
watch your ass Tk, Colorado is dangerous!
I'm an expert on your mom, and she said that the more snow = the less gnarly layers....
Headin' up to Berthoud this weekend...will be skiing lower angled Pow as we have a super faceted basal layer of sugar snow at the ground from early season. Throw some wind loading and a continued temp gradient over the last couple nights = don't ski steep North and East aspects. We had a 9 foot crown slab avalanche in Summit county this week...wouldn't want to be in that one! Cross the fingers for snow in WA Dave....pretty dry right now!
You know it's an odd year when Loveland is beating up on Alta in season snowfall #s. 116" vs 86" as of 12/5. Jay Peak is reporting 59" total thus far, 54" at Stowe....probably 2" at Stratton.
TK, I think the only thing your an expert at is playing with your little stick.
conditions haven't justified the first 5 scale avi warning of the season at Bolton Valley, but I'll be sure to let you all know when we get the first post up.
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