Monarch and Salida

[EMSC]

When I hit it around 5pm for short drive Copper-Silverthorne it was snowy/icy but moving. I got lucky.

Tons of high country roads closed yesterday. Today should start frigid, but warm nicely.

I'm going back to Copper.

Much better choice than ABasin right now. I'm sure they'll open more terrain from this series of storms, but they have shockingly little terrain open so far this season. Curious if Tucker mtn will finally open in the next couple of days for Copper. I also wonder if new terrain is off the table for a couple days though. Very high (level 4) avalanche danger in all of the northern and central mountains. No resort wants to be the next Palisades story of newly opened terrain avalanching.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

good for growing hair on chest

Hah, that was my Italian grandfather's favorite expression: "that'll put hair on your chest!"

 

[Tony Crocker]

You are basically spending your whole day between ~11-12k feet, and that's no joke for altitude sensitive folks like myself that need a little adjustment time coming from sea level.

Historically I'm much less sensitive to altitude than most people, but that has changed for the worse the past two seasons. I may have to live with that, as I've had nearly every cardiac and pulmonary test you can imagine over the past year and the docs have found nothing other than age as an explanation.

I am amazed A-Basin is only 29% open after nearly 4 feet of snow last week and now a 50 inch base. Hopefully avy control is the reason and more should open soon.

 

[EMSC]

I am amazed A-Basin is only 29% open after nearly 4 feet of snow last week and now a 50 inch base.

Ditto, though it almost certainly is Avi danger this week. ALL aspects and ALL elevations including below treeline (rare to see that):

Berthoud Pass remains closed and Vail pass is closed for the moment as well as the most recent storm picks up this morning... My network says that they are out of groceries in Winter Park (not sure why not running them around on the detour route). Also that even yesterday it was apparently a $h!t show getting to and on I70 in both directions out of Summit County (some were headed to Aspen area).