Eldora, CO 3-31-10

[EMSC]

Had to take a vacation day again this week and based on meetings etc... went with Wednesday as my day off. The last day forecast for the heat wave... I skied from about 9:30am till 2pm with conditions softening right on schedule from about 10am till about 12:30ish depending on it's aspect (SE to NW). I spent nearly all my time on the trails today which is quite the rarity since with powder or even PP I find the trees to be the best most of the winter here. So lots of high speed runs in just softening snow. A few flatter places just started getting to that next level of too soft and going toward mash potatoes, but not many. A few other spots went to sticky glue, but again not a lot of areas. As the day wore on it got cloudier and cloudier until things suddenly started to cool off by quite a bit to the point that surfaces were just beginning to re-freeze a touch and flurries had started by the time I was pulling out of the parking lot on the way home. I took some more odd angled video with the helmet cam but I suspect that will take another month to post.

Otherwise just cell pics of the changing weather:

 

[Admin]

Taken just for Powderqueen. Funny how the same sticky goop as GP is on a lightly traveled non-snowmaking trail at Eldora during spring...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Tony Crocker]

Taken just for Powderqueen. Funny how the same sticky goop as GP is on a lightly traveled non-snowmaking trail at Eldora during spring...

While we're on the subject, check out this widespread pink algae bloom in Mammoth's snow from July 4, 2006:

 

[Marc_C]

Taken just for Powderqueen. Funny how the same sticky goop as GP is on a lightly traveled non-snowmaking trail at Eldora during spring...

While we're on the subject, check out this widespread pink algae bloom in Mammoth's snow from July 4, 2006:
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Can't be. It simply can't be. They must be blowing some kind of oil through their snowmaking system or had a massive hydraulic fluid leak.
My fingers are in my ears...la lalalallallalallalallalallalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalaalaal

 

[Admin]

Snow is pink, hydraulic fluid is sometimes pink. Coincidence? I think not!

:lol: :lol:

 

[EMSC]

I did play with saturation to highlight the dust better in this one... But just last spring... Of course this mostly was from a well documented 'blood red' snowstorm - that happened to have a lot of desert dust from Arizona.

Although the Eldo pic from yesterday is exactly the same stuff as GP gets, pollen, particulate pollution, pine needles and sap, etc... vs the more western issues of algae, desert dust, etc... Good thing the goop was only in a few select low traffic areas.

 

[rfarren]

Does this mean the dog crap I step in here in NYC is also from GP's snow making system?