COPowder...can I please come ride with you sometime
Super jealous of that snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd be happy to BEG to tag along too, wonder where he was?
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I'd be happy to BEG to tag along too, wonder where he was?
I never even made it back to the good stuff. Those last couple pics are where the sled pretty much stopped. There is a solid 4 feet where I turned back, likely another foot or so in the upper meadows and hills. It needs to settle some and a riding buddy or two would have been nice. Otherwise I had to cane it pretty hard breaking trail for 10 or so miles uphill.
I bet Red Mtn has 5 feet and is ready to ride. I didn't go up there today because of the extreme avy danger just to drive up there, much less ride. Probably back to work for me for a couple days. This weekend should be good all over CO after that last storm.
I bet Red Mtn has 5 feet and is ready to ride. I didn't go up there today because of the extreme avy danger just to drive up there, much less ride. Probably back to work for me for a couple days. This weekend should be good all over CO after that last storm.
red mtn?
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Glad you had a great day of riding!
Red Mountain Pass... Hwy 50 south to 550 south, 13 miles past Ouray, park at the top at 11,000 feet.
That pic is Red Mt., but this pic is definitely somewhere else. My guess would be northeast of Ouray?
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snengineer
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Oh yeah and I was gonna ask how is the Axys handling this "situation"? Any difference with previous yrs Pros? Power? Track?
Hell yeah nice to see it filling in so well, so early! Thanks for posting!
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stingray719
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stingray719
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We just booked at Alexander Lake Lodge for Thanksgiving weekend! We don't know the area, so we will take whatever advise anyone out there has to offer.
This time of year I would avoid going east of the lodge and instead go west out towards lands end. Lots less rocks and avy danger that way.
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stingray719
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That pic is Red Mt., but this pic is definitely somewhere else. My guess would be northeast of Ouray?
South side of Grand Mesa?
You're right about the avy danger being less, but sending someone to Lands End area because it's "less rocky" is just plain wrong. It the rockiest area of the whole mountain. It also has WAY more wind which keeps the snowpack much thinner. If you go west, stay on the trail. East is almost always significantly deeper snow (like double) The Views are the only reason to ride Lands End in my opinion, and the views are definitley awesome. Not trying to argue with ya, but that's 30 years of riding experience on Grand Mesa.
Agreed, I parked at mesa top last weekend and it was slim pickings and i barely left the trail. Even on the trail there were some land mines. head east, no doubt.
I don't know the area at all. Where is Mesa Top? Is that how the top elevation of Grand Mesa is referred to?
Was there more snow than this
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stingray719
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Yes always wind blown all the way out to lands end. But a few miles this side of lands end all the way to the lodges is the best for new people. We avoid east of lodge like the plague when low snow because of rocks....but to each his own.
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snengineer
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We just booked at Alexander Lake Lodge for Thanksgiving weekend! We don't know the area, so we will take whatever advise anyone out there has to offer.
Listen to the locals, get a trail map head east like the locals have said, keep out of the rock gardens (which will be visible) you'll find good snow.
Mesa Top is the top of the mtn. Its a big flat top mtn similar to how skyline drive looks like east of Manti, thus Grand Mesa. You will see some wind blow areas but the tree pockets will hold deep deep snow to play in. Talk to CCpowder for more good information, since its his backyard.
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stingray719
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Yes by all means head into the avy areas in early riding. Rock gardens being visible did make me smile BTW. Had I known that I would not have destroyed a Nytro a few years back, all I had to do was look to see rocks hid under snow.
I will agree with asking locals, just be aware of there riding habits. I have watched some of the "locals" water skipping through the thin ice.........
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stingray719
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At the end of the day everybody has there riding style and the way they like to ride. I no longer do any extreme riding and do not plan on destroying any more sleds. And I certainly do not play in avy chutes, too much great riding on the Mesa to have to do that.
So my advice to new people is head west from the lodges and play in the meadows and trees but go where you see tracks to avoid the rock gardens. Gets thin on snow near lands end no matter what time of year so you won't want to play out there.
You want more extreme riding head east from the lodges, it is not really extreme but plenty of places to get stuck and find rocks.
So my advice to new people is head west from the lodges and play in the meadows and trees but go where you see tracks to avoid the rock gardens. Gets thin on snow near lands end no matter what time of year so you won't want to play out there.
You want more extreme riding head east from the lodges, it is not really extreme but plenty of places to get stuck and find rocks.
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