Looks like the summer season is starting early in #Colorado.

[nshrubs@mstdn.social]

@c_dan4th @ai6yr Up here in the Cascades too. I figure backpacking season, which normally starts in mid-July for the high country, will be starting now and over by late July & we'll be dealing with fires through October until the fall rains start...assuming they start, that is. Normally I go to Utah as soon as school is out the 3rd week of June & come back to backpack mid-July-late August. This year I'll stay & backpack in June/July, go to UT in August

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@Nshrubs @ai6yr The high-high country is still in winter mode here, but this is usually skis-only terrain for another month at least.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

Three weeks ago, slightly higher in elevation, less than a mile away:

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@c_dan4th niiice!

[dougfir@m.ai6yr.org]

@Nshrubs @c_dan4th @ai6yr
Utah has next to no snowpack and what we have is melting fast under that same heat dome afflicting all the West.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@Dougfir @Nshrubs @c_dan4th My brother was going to go skiing in a few weeks there, I am predicting they will have to go hiking instead.

[nshrubs@mstdn.social]

@ai6yr @Dougfir @c_dan4th Deer Valley & Park City are closed (or are closing today). Beaver Mtn in Logan already closed. Solitude is down to something like 12-13 runs open out of 80+ runs. My cousin skied at Alta this past week & said it was more akin to the Snoqualmie slush we are used to up here than actual powder. Shitty ski year

[nshrubs@mstdn.social]

@c_dan4th @ai6yr Our high-country is still in winter mode as well, particularly further north, but the snowpack is so much less that places like Fire Creek Pass & Mica Lake on the PCT, which often don't melt out until August, will probably be snow free & ice free by early-mid July. Probably will need to carry more water than usual here too, since some of the seasonal streams from meltwater will be dried up.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@hikingdude It was spectacular. But then we’ve been having summer weather.

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@c_dan4th
Nice! I’m jealous! Where are you camping?
My adventures in Colorado have mostly been day trips, although I’ll be camping near Capitol Peak this fall.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@TimKStanton this is Lost Lake near Nederland. It’s not much, but it was nice to get out.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@Nshrubs @ai6yr @Dougfir We do what we can with what we have. And hopefully don’t get too many core shots in the process.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@ai6yr @Dougfir @Nshrubs I have some friends coming into town tonight for their annual Colorado ski vacation. They’re going to try anyway (since they already bought tickets), but I predict it will be pretty limited.

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@c_dan4th
Sounds nice to me— lake and mountains. ️

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@c_dan4th @Dougfir @Nshrubs Well, they can go camping? You do whatever you can do, I suppose.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@c_dan4th @ai6yr @Dougfir @Nshrubs

yeah. usually easter is about the end of the "good" skiing, before folks switch to spring skiing, rock skis, etc. at this rate, many resorts will be *closed* by easter.