How much snow will there be on The Colorado Trail? Early season, this is of great interest but info is spotty. Here’s a website which can be helpful:
Which snow Sites are helpful, though? These are relatively close to the CT, north to south:
Jackwacker Gulch
Echo Lake
Michigan Creek
Fremont Pass
Cochetopa Pass
Beartown
Molas Lake
Columbus Basin
Hope this helps.
On Track
Thanks for the link!
I did some further rooting around based on the above, and found that I liked starting from the following url:
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=935&state=co
You can select ‘last seven days’ from the the ‘snow depth’ row to get the info in the prior post. But I also recommend ‘daily graph’ from the ‘snow water equivalent’ row (‘current year’) column. This graph shows the current snow situation vs. a 30-year average.
In the ‘sitenum’ field in the above URL, substitute the following numbers to retrieve data for the specified locations:
Jackwater Gulch…935
Echo Lake…936
Michigan Creek…937
Fremont Pass…485
Cochetopa Pass…1059
Beartown…327
Molas Lake…632
Columbus Basin…904
Len
That is indeed a neat site. it is interesting how rapidly the snow depth increases with altitude. Cochetopa Pass is only an inch or so deep while Sargent’s Mesa is still about 3 feet deep. BTW, the measurements are in inches. Thanks for the info On_Track. APPLE
APPLE
I thru-hiked the CT least year; left Denver 6/16. Walked thru a lot snow west of Georgia Pass. There was still alot of snow on the Ten Mile Range and over thru Searle/Kokomo Pass and this was 6/25 and 6/26 respectively. After that is was spotty. Hope this helps
Cowboy Joe
The CTF website has new links to weather station sites showing snow depth:
http://www.coloradotrail.org/snowandweather.html
On Track