EMSC
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Great spring day Colorado style.
Chilly start to the day after several days of snow. The series of storms brought Copper 14" over 3 days with a couple inches overnight. Just as importantly for skiing 3 bears lift (Tucker Mtn), was only able to open for a about 2 hours on Saturday. Too short to get fully tracked up from the bigger snow friday night/sat morning.
So anywhere from 2-14" with many sections and sectors of the full amount. And plenty deep to not hit underlying surface most of the time (occasional hits, and by lunch-ish, a few icy spots on heavily travelled areas could be found. My son and I lapped Tucker for something like a dozen runs. Mostly "Fremont 1.5 and 5" but those are old run references as with the chairlift Copper stupidly renamed the entire mountain's runs 20+ years after the original names had long since been ingrained.
Anyway it was quite chilly early (I even wore a neck gator for the first 3 hours). Some cloudiness early that gave way to very sunny skies and warming temps. The sun is so strong now that only the most Northerly faces didn't at least turn to cream cheese softness by late afternoon. Altitude and air temp didn't seem to matter as much as I would have expected. So by afternoon old snow softened, new snow turned to cream cheese softness, occasional N or tree shading meant winter snow softness. Very nice skiing all around. Base of Copper really only hit upper 30's F. I ditched the gator, but was comfortable and not hot with all my normal gear on. So warmish, but not really all that warm.
After a quick stop at the base for a few minutes of DJ thump, thump music we headed back to the car ~3:30p.
Any guesses what this is?
Tucker mtn, Jacque Peak and Union bowl from top of Lillie G
Series of Tucker pics
Just over the ridgeline on the left side is Breck...
Lots of chairs all over the mtn with people on them, but the only lift line wait of more than 5 chairs was occasionally on 3 Bears for Tucker mtn...
Base of this years half pipe. It's not wood or metal like Euro-land resorts
First picture question answered: You can see the new mid-mtn lodge that apparently is nearly finished inside, but not outside... It's only been many years since they started (at lest 4-5) Due to a perfectly timed bathroom break, I was the literal last customer at the old mid-mtn lodge. They were practically giving away the remaining candy and drinks and I was their final transaction ever at 3p.
For DJ's they were doing a decent job of mixing thump, thump with music.
This week had plenty of cars from out of state as usual. Unfortunately due to both busy traffic and road work (clearly important as near Loveland ski area they had it down to 1 lane and were actively working on a Sunday afternoon. The out of state winners were: California, Texas and interestingly Ohio as to volume of out of state plates. Special mention to chihuahua Mexico plate this week. With the following states noted on I70 headed to Denver:
Chilly start to the day after several days of snow. The series of storms brought Copper 14" over 3 days with a couple inches overnight. Just as importantly for skiing 3 bears lift (Tucker Mtn), was only able to open for a about 2 hours on Saturday. Too short to get fully tracked up from the bigger snow friday night/sat morning.
So anywhere from 2-14" with many sections and sectors of the full amount. And plenty deep to not hit underlying surface most of the time (occasional hits, and by lunch-ish, a few icy spots on heavily travelled areas could be found. My son and I lapped Tucker for something like a dozen runs. Mostly "Fremont 1.5 and 5" but those are old run references as with the chairlift Copper stupidly renamed the entire mountain's runs 20+ years after the original names had long since been ingrained.
Anyway it was quite chilly early (I even wore a neck gator for the first 3 hours). Some cloudiness early that gave way to very sunny skies and warming temps. The sun is so strong now that only the most Northerly faces didn't at least turn to cream cheese softness by late afternoon. Altitude and air temp didn't seem to matter as much as I would have expected. So by afternoon old snow softened, new snow turned to cream cheese softness, occasional N or tree shading meant winter snow softness. Very nice skiing all around. Base of Copper really only hit upper 30's F. I ditched the gator, but was comfortable and not hot with all my normal gear on. So warmish, but not really all that warm.
After a quick stop at the base for a few minutes of DJ thump, thump music we headed back to the car ~3:30p.
Any guesses what this is?
Tucker mtn, Jacque Peak and Union bowl from top of Lillie G
Series of Tucker pics
Just over the ridgeline on the left side is Breck...
Lots of chairs all over the mtn with people on them, but the only lift line wait of more than 5 chairs was occasionally on 3 Bears for Tucker mtn...
Base of this years half pipe. It's not wood or metal like Euro-land resorts
First picture question answered: You can see the new mid-mtn lodge that apparently is nearly finished inside, but not outside... It's only been many years since they started (at lest 4-5) Due to a perfectly timed bathroom break, I was the literal last customer at the old mid-mtn lodge. They were practically giving away the remaining candy and drinks and I was their final transaction ever at 3p.
For DJ's they were doing a decent job of mixing thump, thump with music.
This week had plenty of cars from out of state as usual. Unfortunately due to both busy traffic and road work (clearly important as near Loveland ski area they had it down to 1 lane and were actively working on a Sunday afternoon. The out of state winners were: California, Texas and interestingly Ohio as to volume of out of state plates. Special mention to chihuahua Mexico plate this week. With the following states noted on I70 headed to Denver:
