Colorado 2017-18 Colorado Weather and Stoke

[clong83]

Drove Squaw Pass road the other day. Very very few aspen groves are yellow. Most are light green. Id say at least 7 days for a general peak at 10k feet.

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The aspens in my yard at 7500 feet are just now starting to get a hint of yellow to them. The bigger groves around here even at 10k are still light green. It's been warm. Supposedly we'll be chilling off soon, so assuming a fall like pattern starts within a week or so, I'd say a peak is around 3 weeks away. I'm in northern New Mexico. I think most of Colorado peaks about 1-2 weeks before us.

 

[dlague]

This was posted by a friend that lives in Crested Butte and also Crested Butte Ski Area. First good SNOW! While some see the warmer temps on the Front Range and think scorcher for Colorado - the mountains at elevation are cooling nicely! More snow predicted.

 

[Ron]

Snow at the Boat!

 

[mikel]

It's snowing at Copper also. Nothing like that though! We are going to hike up to the top and check it out.

 

[Blue Streak]

Snow at the Boat!

Yeah, let's see the official Finndog snow stake!

 

[Ron]

its 42 here at my house so there's no snow on the stake yet. There's too much cloud cover to see the mountain at this point but I'll guess the snow line is high 9K. that image is at 10K.

 

[Blue Streak]

It's 39 here at 8,200

 

[Blue Streak]

Tomorrow morning's going to be cold

 

[Monique]

Tomorrow morning's going to be cold

Last night was pretty chilly!

 

[Ron]

 

[mikel]

It's already in the mid 50's. Yesterday turned out to be a beautiful day.

We went looking for that elusive snow. It was like trying to find the end of the rainbow. Have to hike the whole way now because the lift stopped running last weekend. The longer it took the longer the sun was out and melted all that white gold away.

So for stoke we had to settle for this

 

[surfandski]

Watching the rain come down at Milehigh stadium and now a weather delay.....I'm hoping there will be some nice snow pics from the higher elevation coming soon but the moisture looks pretty isolated to Denver. I'm so ready for winter that I'm stretching for anything to feed the stoke!

 

[dlague]

This is a good sign - yesterday at A Basin - possibly more to come! By the looks of this picture it is around the 11,000 foot level.

 

[Monique]

^^

I'm headed to McCullough Gulch shortly. Your photo shall inform my clothing choices.

 

[Michael R.]

Did a little rock climbing yesterday in clear creek canyon. Sucks when temps are in the high 30's/low 40's but you can't use gloves.

I love winter, spring, and summer. This in between where it's coldish and there is no snow sucks!

#firstworldproblems

 

[surfandski]

This is a good sign - yesterday at A Basin - possibly more to come! By the looks of this picture it is around the 11,000 foot level.

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Beautiful!

Did a little rock climbing yesterday in clear creek canyon. Sucks when temps are in the high 30's/low 40's but you can't use gloves.

I love winter, spring, and summer. This in between where it's coldish and there is no snow sucks!

#firstworldproblems

That's so true. I've spent many mornings half way up a big wall in Yosemite in temps where my hands were virtually useless until the sun warmed up the rock. Almost freezing temps pretty much suck except for the beautiful fall colors.

 

[Monique]

Did a little rock climbing yesterday in clear creek canyon. Sucks when temps are in the high 30's/low 40's but you can't use gloves.

I love winter, spring, and summer. This in between where it's coldish and there is no snow sucks!

#firstworldproblems

#wrongsportproblems

While you were freezing your hands for no conceivable reason, I was mountain biking and hiking over the weekend in Breck. Beautiful!

 

[Michael R.]

#wrongsportproblems

While you were freezing your hands for no conceivable reason, I was mountain biking and hiking over the weekend in Breck. Beautiful!

#ihavetoomanyhobbiesandnotenoughtimetoentertainthemallproblems

One we got to the second pitch though we were in the sun, which was nice

 

[Jellybeans1000]

A trough is coming over the Rockies from Saturday to Tuesday. Precipitation could be quite heavy on Sunday and Monday morning.
Potential for up to 7" for the Front Range.
And 12" for Southern Colorado.

Beyond that, there is potential for snow showers on the Wednesday too, associated with a weaker system.
Very good for Late September.

 

[clong83]

I like how the snow line just plain stops at the arbitrary political boundary of the NM state line. sigh....

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A trough is coming over the Rockies from Saturday to Tuesday. Precipitation could be quite heavy on Sunday and Monday morning.
Potential for up to 7" for the Front Range.
And 12" for Southern Colorado.

Beyond that, there is potential for snow showers on the Wednesday too, associated with a weaker system.
Very good for Late September.