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

[mikel]

And Loveland continues with a full lot, 10 minute waits, one run, and no snow. What a season!

HA! good call. Like I was telling you earlier. I'm pretty much over the early season 1 run stoke. We left about 1:00 p.m. I will probably ski 1 or 2 more days this coming week and then wait until the following week.

Who knows what will happen that week.

 

[Noodler]

That's why I will be missing the early $h&t $h?w and rolling in to the front row about noon

I'm thinking Tuesday p.m. myself (but not sure yet).

 

[Noodler]

And Loveland continues with a full lot, 10 minute waits, one run, and no snow.

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What a season! We’re going mountain biking tomorrow.

Long range forecasts are of low value, but persistence is often a good tool, and they largely show WYSISWG: minor occasional energy out of the SW on the subtropical jet and frequent PNW storms staying well to the north for another month.

The "runs" were wide open for me today and we only had to wait on a few chairs, ahem... I mean tee boxes. Had a great round of 18 at Murphy Creek although it was a bit chilly. So I skied Thursday-Friday, golfed Saturday, will ski tomorrow/Sunday, and have another round of golf teed up for Monday afternoon. I love living in CO.

 

[Ken_R]

HA! good call. Like I was telling you earlier. I'm pretty much over the early season 1 run stoke. We left about 1:00 p.m. I will probably ski 1 or 2 more days this coming week and then wait until the following week.

Who knows what will happen that week.

I am not going until there is more snow and many more runs open. Doin' snow dances but its not looking good. At this rate I will ski in mid December...

 

[mikel]

~4" is predicted Monday/Tuesday. Im thinking Wednesday should be good.

So far the 2-6" is holding.

Good to be planning a late morning start. It's suppose to be on the chilly side Tue and Wed mornings.

 

[jmeb]

Since snow didn't come in this weekend, spent this morning working and this afternoon mounting a fresh pair of skis -- with the hopes of sneaking out Tuesday midday for a few laps.

Not that these would be WROD rippers for anyone but @nay

Pretty sure this is the first time I've ever owned a brand new ski with a brand new binding....

 

[Ken_R]

Since snow didn't come in this weekend, spent this morning working and this afternoon mounting a fresh pair of skis -- with the hopes of sneaking out Tuesday midday for a few laps.

Not that these would be WROD rippers for anyone but @nay

Pretty sure this is the first time I've ever owned a brand new ski with a brand new binding....

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I loved those skis when I demoed them. Good choice.

 

[Noodler]

~4" is predicted Monday/Tuesday. Im thinking Wednesday should be good.

I'm thinking Wednesday at LL is the better play now too. Skied LL today and what a freakin' zoo it was. It took me almost twice as long as Thursday to get the same number of runs. At least they opened Spillway, but it was all ice balls so it needs a lot of care and feeding. The snow in the morning was much better than what I got Thursday p.m., so at least it was skiing well, but there were so many skiers that ski patrol was at every corner. You really couldn't open it up anywhere, but I did my best to find clear patches and it was good to be on snow for another day. Back to golf for tomorrow...

 

[Ken_R]

Interesting:

 

[Core2]

Ski by feel morning at Wolf Creek.

 

[Ron]

awaiting the updated forecast this AM but maybe @jmeb will be using those new 'Purty skis sooner than he thinks.

 

[mikel]

It's now 6-12". With this forecast I don't know Ron. Parking lot might get busy early

 

[Blue Streak]

Spillway is now open!

 

[Ron]

yeah, will leave a little earlier. We aren't supposed to get nearly as much so going over Rabbit Ears earlier wont be a big deal.

 

[Blue Streak]

Today looks like Saturday



Expect plenty of company on Wednesday.

 

[Ron]

uggghhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[Blue Streak]

uggghhhhhhhhhhhh.

I am not too worried about it. The parking lot will be half empty by noon. I'm sticking to my plan, to avoid the $h&t $h)w.

 

[Ron]

its not like there's going to be 10" of untracked powder. Come on people, stay home. .

 

[Blue Streak]

its not like there's going to be 10" of untracked powder. Come on people, stay home. .

Nice to see Spillway finally open.

 

[teejaywhy]

It's now 6-12". With this forecast I don't know Ron. Parking lot might get busy early

These forecasting tools are pretty cool (OpenSnow, Powder Chasers, etc...) but is there a good place to see the actual snowfall from a storm? Other than checking each area's snow report, perhaps there is a good place all-on-one site?