© Jake Gronseth with Rex BerkeyThis sign is not very useful given the conditions.
And how much snow has Loveland Pass gotten? So much snow that it's burying a sign warning of avalanche danger.
Viewers Jake Gronseth and Rex Berkey uploaded a photo of the buried sign to Your Take. They say they took the picture at around 11 a.m. on Thursday.
"Yes, it was cold," they write." Whatever the sign says, it doesn't help very much."
After a slow start, snow has been epic at Colorado's ski areas. Loveland has gotten 115 inches of snow this January. The average amount for this time of year? Fifty eight inches.
Yeah, that's pretty epic.
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(You can just park there and hop off the side of the road and go straight down in what's called 'back country' skiing. But one year, we skied that back country above / towards Loveland Pass resort & Eisenhower Tunnel* - It was the stupidest thing I've ever done. We walked up from 12K ft to about 13.5K and skiied down a suicidal avalance zone just WAITING for someone to yell or cough so the whole mountain could come down. We skiied through the trees at the gulley run at the base (like a skateboard half pipe), and hitchiked back up.
The next day, three or four guys followed our tracks. (this was April 94?) and they all died in an avalance of wet crusty spring cement snow. (RIP)
Young and dumb; young dumb and thinking as if one's immorotal. Gives me the creeps remembering, and I wish some storm might have wiped our tracks...
R.C.
* You can also ski South towards SR6 and Arapahoe Basin from there - it's part of the continental divide. (And The Band plays... "Across the Great Divide"... etc.)
RC