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Colorado Beach & Sun Report

I put on the sunblock and enjoyed the white sand beaches...explored the tropical rainforest...even tested a new cam (it sucked)

 
Good, maybe it will settle out a bunch of that sugar we have out there.... Then it will start snowing like its supposed to.
 
Very warm and windy. Forecast till Friday looks the best I have seen in months.
 
About 5" in my parking lot in Mt Crested Butte (usually double it to figure what the backcountry has/got). Avy forcasters are saying expect 16"+ in the Kebler Pass zone by Tuesday morning. WOOOOHHOOOO! Oh and its dumping:face-icon-small-hap
 
3:31pm

Just got into Steamboat Springs.
3-4" on Ears, blowing hard, no visibility.
Could still see grass/weeds in the meadows by I-40; looked like 20" or so in the trees.

An empty flatbed semi decided to go boondocking on the west side near the Enviro-parking lot. They'll probably ban semi's next!

Beachy!

MD.

Also - CB & Monarch Pass snowing pretty good, nothing really in Summit, County.
 
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Crested Butte Sun Report

Went up Splains Gulch today. Lots of fresh up there, over the hood on the whooped trail. Extremely tender snow and dumping all day. Set off many tiny slides on almost every convex roll I came over. They would have ripped huge if on a long enough slope, but compressive support from the bottom of the slopes held the slab in place or would only allow it to move a couple feet. Saw cracks shoot 40-50 feet in both directions from me when I turned around on the trail, and also remotely triggered several slides (again very small). Very consistent failures on the snow from last week and the older facets. So not on the new snow/old snow interface, but about 6" below that. The slabs I saw move were about 18" deep. Saw one small natural slide too. I suspect a large natural avy cycle is in process right now, or in the next few hours as the wind continues to load the weak base layers.

Snowboarded in tight trees and low angle slopes, had a blast. Its fun in Crested Butte, but was blowing like a MF when I got back to the truck (which was damn near stuck in the lot). So tomorrow will be cold with wind slabs. The big stuff will kill. Probably before you even get to the fun part of it, remote triggers!!
 
Drove back to CB today - clear, cold an windy everywhere!!

Copper Mtn was +1F at noon. Saw a HUGE slide(like east to west, top to bottom!) just southwest of the Climax tailing ponds.


<<So not on the new snow/old snow interface, but about 6" below that.>>

Yup - this will be the problem, all of the storms from now on will be sitting on top of a deep layer of sugar held together with thin, buried wind-blown layers . I expect this spring we'll see about every route slide when the weight increases w/ the temps come up. Not good. Be careful!!!

Glad we got *some* snow though...

MD.
 
ball bearings

Careful is an understatement. Observed similar conditions 2 years ago and next day slides scrubbed southern exposure clean from the Y to the parking lot. Instead of old crap sugar that is everywhere now, weak layer was 2 inches of ice-ball flakes (just like sugar) with 24" of fresh on top. With 70 mph gusts for the next 24 and then 5 days of snow in the forecast this sugar crap needs to release soon.

Coming up on Friday....
 
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