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Winter 2014/2015 Now Kicking Along — Christmas

Looking southerly up Yule Creek, 'The Lineup'

Our biggest storm yet, just before Christmas. Probably lots of avy danger but at least we’re getting the snowpack built up enough to avoid getting tree bark on our boots. Enjoy and be safe.

Winter 2014/2015 off to Slow Start — with Near Miss

Snowpack is thin. It’s going to be hard to catch up now, but Marble does get the precip once the faucet turns on. Be careful. Someone triggered and cleaned out the main bowl a few days ago. Not trivial. We might have to start treating Marble Bowl like Highlands Bowl, with some intense boot packing …

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Winter 2014/15 Begins

Google Earth map for Marble Skiing

Marble area hasn’t received some of the larger recent snowfalls we’ve had in other parts of Colorado, but the snowpack build has definitely begun. We’ve seen a few folks trying to push the skiing, but snow depth on the access routes from Quarry road is insufficiant to cover downed trees and other obstacles. We’d recommend …

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Getready for 2014-15 — Quarry’s Rotary Plow

Check out the Volvo L110F compact loader that'll be pushing a loader mounted R.P.M. Tech LM220

We wouldn’t have the Quarry Road to use if it wasn’t for Colorado Stone Quarries Inc. doing snow plowing and road repair. Even so, without a rotary the plowing has been problematic as the road becomes narrower and narrower with a blade plow packing the berm against the roadside. We’re thus duly impressed by what …

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