Big rain storm last evening which left First Snow on the peaks near Breckenridge. Remember snow before July 4th is late snow, after is early snow.
Spoke to a young man today that lives in Leadville. He said, "that there was snow along the side of the road near Climax last night when he drove home from work".
Friday, Oct 22nd, we rode our bikes up "Three Peaks" across the valley from our house. Saturday morning, we drove to Denver to get our Prius service and then onto Ft. Collins to visit Craig, Sarah, & Zoe. Early Saturday morning, we had snow above 10,000' and our drive up to the Eisenhower Tunnel was a real experience since Rick had not scheduled getting our snow tires put on until the following Monday. After fish tailing and driving 15mph we finally made it to the tunnel and started down (slowly) towards Denver.
Sunday morning after watching the local news to check on the weather reports, we drove back up to the mountains on dry roads. Loveland Ski Area (located on east side of Eisenhower Tunnel) was the first Colorado Ski Area to open this season, and we could the skiers making their first runs of the season.
A blizzard hit Summit County on Monday, Oct 25th, and lasted for 2.5 days. We had 12" snow on our deck on Tuesday and another 6-8" by the next morning. High winds, whiteout conditions, and Loveland reported 33" of new powder as a result of the storm.
Yesterday, Oct 29th, the we had warm weather, a lot of snow melt, and the roads were pretty dry. Rick walked up Hamilton Creek road behind our house.
Today, Rick was able to ride his bike back up "Three Peaks".
Although it is currently about 54 degrees, snow is in the forecast for tonight.
This is why we love it.......
Yesterday it started snowing, the temperature dropped and roads got icy. Around 6PM we drove over to Frisco to attend a birthday party for a friend of ours. The roads were really slick and the local radio station indicated that semi's were off the road near Vail pass. We left about 7:15PM and the traffic on I-70 was crawling along. We then stopped by the local Democratic office to help out stuffing envelopes to newly registered voters with information on our local candidates running for County Commissioner, State Representative and State Senator. With the help of about 15 people, we stuffed, stamped, sealed and put on mailing labels to 580 new voters.
The Dems were also having a "Early Voting Party" where you could leave your mail in ballot. We had music and food.
When we finally left about 10:30PM, the roads were pure ice.
Today, we drove (Explorer) to Copper Mtn, to attend the Annual Ski Executive's COO Breakfast. This is where the COO from Breck, A-Basin, Keystone, and Copper present and update to their market. With the down turn in the economy and the lower early bookings, the outlook is not good for the ski industry although when snow hits and there is national coverage (like today), reservation phones start ringing.
In the afternoon, we attended a local forum put on by the Summit County Planning department to discuss "affordable housing" issues. Helen is on the Lower Blue Planning Commission and was requested to attend this meeting.
Snow let up a little bit during the day and the weather for the weekend appears to be warming up.
We had heavy rain last night with snow at higher elevation. Helen left early this morning to attend a conference in Breckenridge. She called to tell me that there is a lot of snow in Breck. I borrowed this photo from the Breck Webcam.
Helen rode her bike this morning from our house to Montezuma which is past Keystone. She called at 10:30AM to report that she spotted a dusting of snow at Arapahoe Basin from last nights storm. Even though it is a dusting, it does qualify in our book as "First Snow".
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