CO Snowstorm

I'm trying to get down to Silverton for Monday. Wish me luck on the drive!

Gonna leave SLC first thing Saturday morning.

Think I might take the extra 30 minutes to drop down through Moab/La Sal
 
Been watching these storm waves begin forming and travel your way. I'm super jealous! I'll take less traffic and crowds any day though
 
Bout fuckin time! this winter has sucked balls. Hopefully it shuts down i70 in the foot hills so all of Denver doesn't come up and ruin it
 
14257314:Craw_Daddy said:
Bout fuckin time! this winter has sucked balls. Hopefully it shuts down i70 in the foot hills so all of Denver doesn't come up and ruin it
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Really hoping for a dump of snow in the city too. My brother wants to go ski urban as he's sworn off i70 on the weekend
 
14257395:ReturnToMonkey said:
Really hoping for a dump of snow in the city too. My brother wants to go ski urban as he's sworn off i70 on the weekend
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It looks like the storm shifted West and is going to hit the resorts harder but Denver still should get about a foot. Unreal numbers for the mountains:

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14257541:ReturnToMonkey said:
I see the lock for the "Next 6-10 Days"... People pay a premium to see the forecast that far out? It is nearly made up to satisfy the masses at that point. Wow.
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Its just there to make the dentists on TGR feel good.
 
14257541:ReturnToMonkey said:
I see the lock for the "Next 6-10 Days"... People pay a premium to see the forecast that far out? It is nearly made up to satisfy the masses at that point. Wow.
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I pay it, it's a small yearly fee and it gets you loads of map features as well other features. I can also let all my friends use it on their phones. Many times it's helped me storm chase way more efficiently due to watching patterns/trends in forecasts.

Sorry, it's not for bro brahs.

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People must think that there gonna be skiing endless pow and huckin mad cliffs. You guys will be lucky if your skiing anything but the groomer runs. Resorts typically go into panic mode when this happens and most likely a lot of shit is gonna get closed and won’t open until they know that some kid isn’t gonna get caught in a small slide off some main run.
 
14257599:ColoradoDogfart said:
People must think that there gonna be skiing endless pow and huckin mad cliffs. You guys will be lucky if your skiing anything but the groomer runs. Resorts typically go into panic mode when this happens and most likely a lot of shit is gonna get closed and won’t open until they know that some kid isn’t gonna get caught in a small slide off some main run.
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There is some wisdom here. This is going to be an epic but also a cartographic dump with probable power outages, idiots getting stranded and areas along the Front Range completely grinding to a halt. I-70 will almost 100% be closed for some time with high avvy risk on the slopes near the road to mitigate. The resorts will be doing mitigation work the best they can but its still dangerous and even tree wells can kill which I am sure they are going to take into account. Realistically speaking it will probably be 3-4 days before they can catch up and open the terrain.
 
14257599:ColoradoDogfart said:
People must think that there gonna be skiing endless pow and huckin mad cliffs. You guys will be lucky if your skiing anything but the groomer runs. Resorts typically go into panic mode when this happens and most likely a lot of shit is gonna get closed and won’t open until they know that some kid isn’t gonna get caught in a small slide off some main run.
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More interested in skiing Monday.
 
This makes me sad but you're probably right

14257599:ColoradoDogfart said:
People must think that there gonna be skiing endless pow and huckin mad cliffs. You guys will be lucky if your skiing anything but the groomer runs. Resorts typically go into panic mode when this happens and most likely a lot of shit is gonna get closed and won’t open until they know that some kid isn’t gonna get caught in a small slide off some main run.
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14257599:ColoradoDogfart said:
People must think that there gonna be skiing endless pow and huckin mad cliffs. You guys will be lucky if your skiing anything but the groomer runs. Resorts typically go into panic mode when this happens and most likely a lot of shit is gonna get closed and won’t open until they know that some kid isn’t gonna get caught in a small slide off some main run.
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Not to mention the overall powder panic, almost too much to even care this year.
 
It looks like they pulled back a little on the snow totals which is actually a good thing. I would rather have 12'' to 15'' of pow that the resort can mange than 55" that would tank everything. The storm is hitting at a weird angle, Boulder and Estes Park are in the crosshairs with the I-70 mtns and Denver getting the flanks.

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Leave it to the negative nancy's on here to make a negative thing out of a 50 inch snow storm

waaaah powder panic waaaah denver people wahhh crowds waaaaah stay the fuck home then

I'm here for it and fucking STOKED after the ass winter we've had
 
14257870:DayMan said:
Leave it to the negative nancy's on here to make a negative thing out of a 50 inch snow storm

waaaah powder panic waaaah denver people wahhh crowds waaaaah stay the fuck home then

I'm here for it and fucking STOKED after the ass winter we've had
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Its actually coming together in almost an ideal way. Boulder and I-70 corridor on the foothills are going to get slammed, I-70 will prob be shut down for the weekend, the resorts will get 10'' to 20'' of fresh and the MTN ops will have it cleared for avvy in a day or so. That means anyone who can head up on the weekday is going to have it all to themselves.
 
I got 20$ that i70 is gonna get closed west bound early Saturday or early Sunday meaning that for the folks comin back on Sunday it won’t be that bad, now I’m not saying it’s gonna be the normal but it’s prob only gonna be like 3-4
 
14257651:SuspiciousFish said:
There is some wisdom here. This is going to be an epic but also a cartographic dump with probable power outages, idiots getting stranded and areas along the Front Range completely grinding to a halt. I-70 will almost 100% be closed for some time with high avvy risk on the slopes near the road to mitigate. The resorts will be doing mitigation work the best they can but its still dangerous and even tree wells can kill which I am sure they are going to take into account. Realistically speaking it will probably be 3-4 days before they can catch up and open the terrain.
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I mean tree wells are already there; I saw tons when I was skiing last month. But yeah I like your assessment. If anyone can get up to the mountain towns before the storm, they'll be in for a treat if the resorts are open. I70 is definitely gonna be locked down. I'd certainly expect snow immersion risk to be high too. Every time California or the pnw gets snow this deep you always hear about someone suffocating in the middle of a wide open run cuz they fall and the snow is too deep.

Be careful out there folks. Have a blast.
 
14257938:HypeBeast said:
I mean tree wells are already there; I saw tons when I was skiing last month. But yeah I like your assessment. If anyone can get up to the mountain towns before the storm, they'll be in for a treat if the resorts are open. I70 is definitely gonna be locked down. I'd certainly expect snow immersion risk to be high too. Every time California or the pnw gets snow this deep you always hear about someone suffocating in the middle of a wide open run cuz they fall and the snow is too deep.

Be careful out there folks. Have a blast.
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Be sure if you do want to stay to CALL NOW AND GET RESERVATIONS!!!!! Any time I-70 closes all the hotels book up and its a shit show. I got stuck on the wrong side of Eisenhower tunnel once and luckily we had some family visiting CO that had a room already because everywhere booked out literally within 20 min of the closing. It was a cluster fuck because it was my Sister in Law, her husband, their toddler and my Wife, my toddler and I all crammed into a double queen room.

Lol the hotel reception got so pissed from everyone calling they literally would answer with, "Hi, this is Mountain View Hotel... we dont have vacant room." then just hang up on me.
 
I want 4 feet in the city. Please it’s been forever since we had a storm you could measure in feet. Bury us and scare away the Texans and Californians. I wanna shovel my driveway 6 times. I want it to be dangerous to let my dogs out. END THE WORLD IN THE DENVER METRO FOR FOUR DAYS

im so damn sick of small snowstorms and soft ass transplants who don’t understand where they moved to.
 
14258017:CaptainObvious. said:
I want 4 feet in the city. Please it’s been forever since we had a storm you could measure in feet. Bury us and scare away the Texans and Californians. I wanna shovel my driveway 6 times. I want it to be dangerous to let my dogs out. END THE WORLD IN THE DENVER METRO FOR FOUR DAYS

im so damn sick of small snowstorms and soft ass transplants who don’t understand where they moved to.
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I loved listening to an episode of Level 20 (don't remember which one) where Denver had a huuuge blizzard that shut down a lot of stuff and pretty much the only people outside were street filmers like the Level 1 crew
 
14258022:ReturnToMonkey said:
I loved listening to an episode of Level 20 (don't remember which one) where Denver had a huuuge blizzard that shut down a lot of stuff and pretty much the only people outside were street filmers like the Level 1 crew
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Every conference call I’m on for 5 months from Nov-April it’s people whining when a storm is forecast. Every time I say “why did you move here. Did you not know where Denver was?” Or some variant of that. Their complaining pisses me off to no end. Share the stoke and enjoy the snow you weakling.
 
14258022:ReturnToMonkey said:
I loved listening to an episode of Level 20 (don't remember which one) where Denver had a huuuge blizzard that shut down a lot of stuff and pretty much the only people outside were street filmers like the Level 1 crew
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I remember back in 2006 Boulder got like 3 feet of snow. All the skiers went around campus and Chataqua hitting rails and building booters. It was cool to roll around and just run into 3-4 other dudes making a feature.
 
14258017:CaptainObvious. said:
I want 4 feet in the city. Please it’s been forever since we had a storm you could measure in feet. Bury us and scare away the Texans and Californians. I wanna shovel my driveway 6 times. I want it to be dangerous to let my dogs out. END THE WORLD IN THE DENVER METRO FOR FOUR DAYS

im so damn sick of small snowstorms and soft ass transplants who don’t understand where they moved to.
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Yep...

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14258017:CaptainObvious. said:
I want 4 feet in the city. Please it’s been forever since we had a storm you could measure in feet. Bury us and scare away the Texans and Californians. I wanna shovel my driveway 6 times. I want it to be dangerous to let my dogs out. END THE WORLD IN THE DENVER METRO FOR FOUR DAYS

im so damn sick of small snowstorms and soft ass transplants who don’t understand where they moved to.
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Lmao that's great.. it's not like denver averages that much snow but it would be funny af to see all the scrubs out there freaking out
 
14257584:.nasty said:
I pay it, it's a small yearly fee and it gets you loads of map features as well other features. I can also let all my friends use it on their phones. Many times it's helped me storm chase way more efficiently due to watching patterns/trends in forecasts.

Sorry, it's not for bro brahs.

**This post was edited on Mar 12th 2021 at 8:26:28am
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Send codes son
 
14258017:CaptainObvious. said:
I want 4 feet in the city. Please it’s been forever since we had a storm you could measure in feet. Bury us and scare away the Texans and Californians. I wanna shovel my driveway 6 times. I want it to be dangerous to let my dogs out. END THE WORLD IN THE DENVER METRO FOR FOUR DAYS

im so damn sick of small snowstorms and soft ass transplants who don’t understand where they moved to.
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Lol at bitching about Californians and then talking snow totals. Also denver is about as bro dude transplant life as anywhere in the country.
 
14258027:CaptainObvious. said:
Every conference call I’m on for 5 months from Nov-April it’s people whining when a storm is forecast. Every time I say “why did you move here. Did you not know where Denver was?” Or some variant of that. Their complaining pisses me off to no end. Share the stoke and enjoy the snow you weakling.
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TRANSPLANTS. They can all die.

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14258231:skeirman said:
TRANSPLANTS. They can all die.

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My uncle is moving from Golden to Wyoming because he’s had it with all the Californians ruining the place.

Honestly sounds pretty similar to VT, just wish they didn’t even let people from NJ and CT in. And don’t get me started on Mass...
 
Just read 8-12 inches for most of Denver now, other than the foothills this storm is a total bust.
 
Kinda shocked how much people trust the forecast, especially in Colorado. It's always a let down in the case of snowfall.

14258424:Film. said:
Just read 8-12 inches for most of Denver now, other than the foothills this storm is a total bust.
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14258495:ReturnToMonkey said:
Kinda shocked how much people trust the forecast, especially in Colorado. It's always a let down in the case of snowfall.
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I made the mistake of going to king soopers on Thursday or Wednesday. Was wondering why there was mad lines until people started talkin about ArE yOu rEaDy fOr ThE StOrM

Like ffs people shit on the front range will melt in 2 days after a big dump. Chill.
 
14258495:ReturnToMonkey said:
Kinda shocked how much people trust the forecast, especially in Colorado. It's always a let down in the case of snowfall.
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Depends where u reading. I'm not as familiar with CO but the sources I use are usually pretty good for skiing. This year they've been bad though overestimating I will agree. I usually check 3-4 weather sources (weather Channel, AccuWeather, onthesnow, local channels, etc) and average their totals which is usually accurate to around 75%. AccuWeather is pretty good imo. Here's some CO resorts and their totals look similar to before when I checked. The storm still has warnings for 2-4ft in locally higher amounts. Depends how well you know your resort but there's bound to be windward/leeward sides of the mountains and drifts that will be mega deep. Enjoy it folks. Gonna be sulking in the rain and would kill for an inch of snow to ski on

Weekday is gonna be killer

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Wolf creek is claiming 15" already. I believe them and it's probably deeper in certain parts of the trees. Definitely a good target if you're looking for late week powder as it hangs out there forever
 
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