While Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer, it's not actually fall yet — but in Colorado, the mountains appear to have jumped straight into winter.
A late-summer cold front Wednesday night was expected to bring thunderstorms and a light dusting of snow to mountains areas above 10,000 feet, CBS Denver reported. And sure enough, on Thursday, some Coloradans did wake up to snow, but only ones who were up high enough. Snow was spotted at Arapaho Basin, which shared photos of the delicate dusting.
The nearby Keystone Resort also posted photos of the snow they received — enough to make tiny snowmen.
Accuweather also shared a live view of Vail Pass as snow fell on the roadways there. While this early snow is the first of the season in Colorado, it's not the first U.S. location to get snow.
Rowan Cocoan Tell me about it. Lived there from 1993 to 2005, Larkspur and Golden...loved it. People ask why I moved to Mexizona....I tell them I lost a bet
Bezel Bub I've always had my body thermostat made for cold weather. We lived in California from DOB 12/58 thru 1/65 when we moved to Florida with space program. Our last two years were in the high Mojave Desert - dad worked at Edwards AFB. As it turned out in snowed one time each winter we were there; and I happened to be sick, each time so I couldn't go out and play. ARGH!
My siblings would bring in snowballs, etc. But I wanted to roll in snow. I saw snow in college (Gainesville, also Cocoa, but never on the ground.) I was driving across to Cal. in 1/81, and we stopped in Texas to take a whiz. There was snow under the bridge on I-10 in W. Texas. I rolled around in it, threw snowballs at my car.
I was supposed to start a job in 1/81 but the US Gov. burned me, so I was homeless living in car and with friends, so first started skiing in 1/81 (Big Bear). God, I love the cold, and Florida's ALWAYS been way too hot. Gotta get gone.
I did manage to surf in the A.M. at Hunt. Beach; and snow ski that same evening... around 3/82. At one point, around age 38, I'd gotten my average life ski trips from 81 -~95 at 3.2 ski trips per year.
Rowan Cocoan I have skied....never snowboarded. Mostly I just loved the mountains. Took full advantage when I lived there hiking, mountain biking. Two times took my Harley on the Gold Belt tour road that starts in Pueblo, goes through Phantom Canyon and ends up in Cripple Creek... exorcised any remaining fear of heights I might have had. Lived pretty close to Red Rocks Amphitheater...saw more concerts there than I can even remember...one of my all time favorite venues.
Having lived most of my life in Chicago, I had gotten used to miserable / cold weather, but the winters in Colorado are different. I remember when we first moved there we lived for a year in Colorado Springs, and the first Thanksgiving I was out in my front yard in shorts and a T-Shirt...I thought I died and went to heaven. I'm sure people thought I was being facetious when I would describe it as a 'dry cold', but I'm not sure how else you would describe it
Bezel Bub I actually played a gig at Red Rocks once....
Well, actually, we had spare time before we had to get back to Stapleton? (I think it was - they'd just refurbished it and then came DIA? WTF?)
Anyway, it was open to the public - no concerts so our crew sat and watched me do a sit down set of about 30 minutes. Other folks trickled in. I actually got applause. Nice memory. Great acoustics.*
R.C.
*And then came the groupies! OMG! But .....and then I woke up . The above's true. No groupies though.
Saw Deep Purple / Scorpions / Dio there in like 2002....Purple were pretty close to being past their expiration date, but the good part was seeing this guy play guitar...[Link]
R.C.