Posted on 05/16/2008 10:23:58 AM PDT by george76
Big snow equals big lines, but avy hazards linger.
It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
That’s what diehard skiers are saying this year, milking every last drop of pleasure from a a winter that just won’t seem to end...
some of the best skiing of the season ... where winter-like snow lingers in the steepest notches and chutes. The relatively dense spring snow settles more quickly than mid-winter powder, and this is prime-time for the hike-to terrain.
“It was sweet,”
Local backcountry skiers are talking about big lines on big peaks, with solid top-to-bottom coverage on favorites like Buffalo Mountain and Quandary Peak. The steady stream of storms has extended the harvest of spring corn snow and the potential for backcountry avalanches.
Around the state, highway crews are reporting slow going in clearing high mountain passes like Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park, and Independence Pass, between Leadville and Aspen.
That area has the deepest snowpack in a quarter century, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
According to the avalanche center’s May 14 update, highway workers knocked down large cornices along Independence Pass.
Dropping bombs from a helicopter, they released truck-sized blocks of snow. Observers later measured the face of the cornice blocks at 50 to 60 feet high.
(Excerpt) Read more at summitdaily.com ...
At this rate, they’ll be skiing at Steamboat on the 4th of July!
It snowed most of the day yesterday at Casa MtnClimber.
Hey TM, when is the next book due out?
Them bear are gonna be hungry when they finally get out of their hibernation.
How dare they? Don’t they know Global Warming is going full-bore?
Are you east or west of the continental divide?
Paging Al Gore, polar bears are moving south!
I am just east of the continental divide at just below 9,000 ft elevation. I can see about 30-40 miles of the divide as I type this. Plenty of snow right now!
“At this rate, they’ll be skiing at Steamboat on the 4th of July!”
I got up this morning and looked up at Long’s peak above Longmont, Co. and saw all the new snow and was wondering if it’s ever going to get warm. I froze my butt off this winter. Global warming my frozen a**.
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