Colorado 2020-2021 Colorado Weather and Stoke (and beer)

[dovski]

The Summit at Snoqualmie just put out their update on winter operations

Winter 2020-21 Update

Get the latest updates and information about this upcoming winter season at your home mountain.

summitatsnoqualmie.com

No reservation system, but they did encourage people to ski on off days ... etc. and will be employing some crowd reducing tactics. My understanding is that they will be limiting ski school enrollment and preventing most if not all of the concierge ski schools from operating this year. Normally there are upward o 50 private ski schools that operate at Snoqualmie making weekends a madhouse. My guess is that eliminating these is a very easy way to reduce crowds. We tend to ski at Alpental and my understanding is that they are setting limits on enrollment in the mountain run ski programs which should also reduce crowds quite a bit. Will be interesting to see how all this plays out.

 

[Ron]

@Ron -- any sign of color up there yet? Thinking next weekend of camping up your way. Maybe a lil overnight backpack in the Flattops.

nothing yet. we'll see after the cold snap.

 

[nay]

Monument.

 

[Ken_R]

Official high temp today at my home weather station (Denver), 103.1ºF that is just crazy. Its the highest temp I have recorded all year. I have driven to the Mtns a few times including this afternoon and I have yet to see any color (fall foliage). This next storm might screw it up big time if it comes with a lot of wind.

 

[mikel]

• Confirmed that parking reservations will be the limiting factor to reduce the skiers to the state/county capacity restrictions that are still being worked out. There will be no lift reservation system. If you can get to the resort, you'll be able to get on the lift.
• Great news for homeowners and those renting a place at Copper. Make those reservations now!
• Indoor capacity will be limited to 50 people max regardless of the size of the facility. Bring a lunch!
• Opening up additional indoor space like the conference center, and adding picnic tables and other outdoor seating.
• Ski racers will be training prior to the Nov 30th opening.
• Still working with the state and county on details. The state was very focused on the reopening of schools and is now turning their efforts to the ski industry.

50 people max is going to be the tough one. I'm just remembering the days last season when they had all the conference rooms open and people were sitting all over the place on the floors. I sat outside more than once last season. Depending on my schedule I probably will be again. And there is always the Edge

 

[Jellybeans1000]

A nice approx 10-15 inches for the Front Range, very nice for September

In terms of the seasonal forecast, it doesn’t look too bad for Colorado at all IMO. Something to be positive about at least for that side of the Rockies.

 

[jmeb]

Did some backcountry recon today. Verified that a Caltopo spot would be pretty awesome mellow bowl skiing of about 1000' . That sorta hippy pow @Slim likes. Drop in is about 1500' and 1.5mi from a very popular trailhead, but I've never heard of anyone skiing it. Perhaps it gets totally windblasted...or windloaded? Will have to skin up to confirm this winter.

Felt like fall up high. 45F at the trailhead. Now 90+ in Denver.

 

[Ron]

that looks like it would get scoured.

 

[jmeb]

that looks like it would get scoured.

Certainly a possibility. It is leeward to the dominant winds -- so holding out hope it might fill in. Maybe not to the top of the ridgeline though.

 

[Ron]

there's big meadow up behind my house with about the same pitch. Its on the list as soon as it fills in. the Protests were made for that.

 

[tball]

I happened to notice these shiny new parking boots in a utility closet at Copper today. Looks like they are gearing up for the coming parking wars! Could be ugly.

 

[Core2]

I'll be reporting from Ouray and Silverton on Wednesday. It will be nice to see some flakes and rain after record breaking temps here in AZ all summer.

 

[jmeb]

there's big meadow up behind my house with about the same pitch. Its on the list as soon as it fills in. the Protests were made for that.

Sounds like a good PugSki meetup -- socially distant -- possibility.

 

[Ken_R]

 

[Ken_R]

Summer ends tonight. Finally! Bye bye smoke and heat.

 

[tball]

Yesterday was a perfect day in the high country. We had a blast biking in and around Copper:

 

[mdf]

Because all our trees have leaves on them right now. We get lots of inches of snow that sits on them, it's going to break off a ton of big limbs.

We had snow over trees with leaves in New England several years ago. Yep, it was a mess. Power was out for quite a while.

 

[mdf]

I happened to notice these shiny new parking boots in a utility closet at Copper today. Looks like they are gearing up for the coming parking wars! Could be ugly.

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You could bring your own decoy boot with you!

 

[tball]

Yikes, this is some of the worst air quality I've seen all season. The time-series graph is from the Copper fire station.



I hope you are doing OK @Doug Briggs if you are riding the Colorado Trail today as you mentioned!

 

[tball]

Yuck.