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Conditions at Breck/Keystone/A-basin
Can someone who has actually been there post a report on conditions at
any/all of these areas? Mikey or Snoig or someone who knows how Chester Bullock used to do it when he was at Copper. H. R. (Bob) Hofmann |
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Well, I went out Friday for a few runs but the crowds have been pretty
bad so I've been doing more XC this week. On Friday, I waited about 15 minutes in the singles line to get on the Colorado Superchair then went over to E chair. I noticed 6 chair was closed probably because it was windy but it really wasn't to bad. I skied E chair for a few runs and it was pretty boney. Lots of rocks on the top of the ridge. The winds have been coming from the opposite direction so most of the northern exposure slopes are pretty rocky while the southern exposure slopes have lots of snow. The sun was out yesterday and today so they could be getting pretty crusty by now. Even though we've had a bit of snow in the last week, the wind has compacted it pretty well. Avi danger is way up there with many slides being reported in the last week. When the conditions are like this, it usually means lots of hardpack above treeline. I went up McColloch Gulch yesterday and everything in the open was blown off or some pretty hard slab. On the plus side, pretty much all of the terrian at Breck is open. I did some tree runs Friday and didn't hit any rocks so the base is starting to build up. Still, we need some more snow. The forecast has us for an inch or two every day for the next week with up to 8 on Tuesday. It should be pretty good by next weekend. Most of the holiday crowd should be gone by then and hopefull the Broncos will be in the playoffs and people will be staying home to watch them. snoig |
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Snoig:
Thanx for the info, not as much snow as I would like to hear about, but maybe in 2 more weeks things will get better. I want to get out before the end of Jan for about 10 days, and then 10 more days sometime in March if my consulting work stays at a low level. H. R. (Bob) Hofmann |
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What a difference a day makes. Breck reported 4" today but it was more
like 8" to 10" on six chair. Best day of the year so far and pretty much better than any day last year. Not many people out there because of winter storm warnings. Still a light snow coming down now. Snowforcast.com says 1 to 2 tomorrow, 2 to 4 Friday, 1 to 2 Saturday and 3 to 3 Monday. Enough to keep things resurfaced. There's still a few rocks out there but not much to worry about. It should be really good this weekend. |
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Yep, still in inches. What do you want, it's Summit County. Wolf
Creek and Silverton are getting hammered. Beaver Creek got a bit from this one. Still, skiing here is better then it's been all year. snoig |
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Was at Breck last week. Apparently, they had very little snow for the
two weeks leading up to our trip. And it had been quite warm part of the time during the days. We got a nice little dump midweek (reported as 4-5 inches, but it was clearly more than that on the mountain) and it was very nice for two days. But after it got skiied off, they was a hard layer of packed that was more like ice in some places. We atrributed that layer to some warm days followed by cold nights and re-freezing. That being said, there were still some nice groomed blue runs (the best blue on Peak 9 was Cashier, the same run where a boarder got killed on 12/31). I also did the double-diamond bowl to skier's far left off the T-bar (Y Chutes?) and it had plenty of snow, much fun. Also did Devil's Crotch on Peak 9. Despite being very steep, there was still plenty of snow between the bumps. Fun slope. There is a blue-black run called Frosty's Freeway that seems essential to get back from Peak 8 to Peak 9. If you are trying to take some beginners or early intermediate skiers that way, be careful. Very icey, bumpy. The newbies were wicked ****ed that we took them on it. (Ungrateful POS's. We were trying to save them the traverse down on Sawmill). We "worked the 6 chair" for a few runs and it was my favorite. Plenty of white stuff even 3 days after the last snowfall. I recomend Solitude and whatever run was farthest to skier's right at the top (map far left). Overall, it would probably be better with more snow, but we had a great time, nonetheless. Granted, this was several days ago. . . I could probably think of some other details if you had other specific questions. What pitches are you interested in? We skied Peak 10 some also, as well as Peak 7. -William |
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William wrote:
We "worked the 6 chair" for a few runs and it was my favorite. Plenty of white stuff even 3 days after the last snowfall. I recomend Solitude and whatever run was farthest to skier's right at the top (map far left). I worked the 6 chair for about 4 hours on Wednesday. Snow up to my knees pretty much the whole time, and no people. Essentially had two trails to myself, and I kept making laps on them. All of the lemmings (and snowboarders who couldn't make the traverse) were busy tracking out what was under the lift. Oh if they had known what they were missing... ---------------------- Chester 5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions. |
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