Araphaho Peak at the end of January. Scroll way down for more on our little Mount Fuji ... and natural art.
Araphaho Peak at the end of January. Scroll way down for more on our little Mount Fuji ... and natural art.
The following presentation has dramatic mood changes in the views:
Exquisite views over Shadow Mountain Lake to the Continental
Divide. Unique ridgetop location – on top of the world – with easy year round access.
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Looking back we found a couple of alpenglow images from last fall while on the water
that we intended to show here. Here they are directly below.
Scroll down for more on natural art.
The rather uninteresting weather pattern for the last month has awakened our more refined
sensibilities. I am reminded of the 36 Views of Mount Fuji by the famous 19th century Japanese
artist Hokusai. (He actually did over a 100 fine paintings of the mountain's moods and aspects.
He also changed his name every few years as he felt that he himself learned new things, every
year until his death at 89.) Here is Grand County, Colorado we have a number of peaks that
change dramatically every hour. Below are recent images of 13,500' Arapaho Peak along the
eastern most projection of the Continental Divide and also an image of Twin Peaks. At a glance,
the photos perhaps look bleak. However, if you were there experiencing everything in the clear air,
everything would feel much more refined and subtle. Check back later today for more images
and views from a most interesting and new land choices we have to offer (price will be $109,000).
Twin Peaks. Scroll down for two recent views of Arapaho Peak.
An hour after the scene above, two layers of cloud developed, one along the base and one a little below the top.
Scroll down for a subtle view of the peak dissolving into the sky.
Winter Park had its Dog Daze Winter Carnival last weekend. Scroll down for photos.
Coming right up is Grand Lake's Winter Carnival. Merchants will be representing different
countries in the Spirit of the Olympics, everything from the Jamaican Bob Sled Team to
The North Pole (aka "it's all down hill from here" and "stop the world, I want to get off").
After getting dog tired, everyone went to eat and then there was a parade and fireworks!
For a while, it snowed so hard one could hear the fireworks, yet not see them ....
Only in Winter Park!
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Our weather cam is out for repairs. 
Sun & Moon for Wednesday, November 4, 2009:
First hint of dawn at 6:08 am
Sunrise: 6:37 am. Sunset: 4:57 pm
Last hint of twilight and alpenglow at 5:25 pm
Moon: just past being full, rising at 6:11 pm
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Grand Lake is about 8400' high (2570 meters).
Latitude = 40.2° North; Longitude = 105.8º West.
The best prognosticator of our weather is the serpentine Jet Stream.
A huge amount of moisture is carried in this lofty stream. When it is
flows over Colorado, we get lots of rain and snow. Often a high pressure
dome in Utah causes the jet stream to arch far to the north of Colorado.
Our precipitation (if any) is then quick (with rain and rainbows) and
concentrated around our higher ridges and peaks. Climate models for the
northern Colorado Mountains are remarkably uncertain. There is a well
understood branch of the jet stream through Montana and Yellowstone
National Park in northern Wyoming. There is also a predictable branch
through Arizona and southern Colorado. We are between these branches
and in a very difficult to predict area. Our weather is often the inverse of
what is occurring in Denver and Boulder; media reports on Colorado are
often quite misleading for Grand County.
For our high and rugged setting, our weather is remarkably sunny. We have
deep, verdant forests and enough snow in the winter to give Winter Park,
Colorado the highest ten year average for snow among all of Colorado's ski
resorts. How do we manage to sneak in enough rain and snow to fill our lakes
and water our forests and yet provide hundreds of beautiful days for relaxing,
skiing and snowmobiling? The key is our unique location on the west slope of
the Continental Divide where it projects further to the east than anywhere else
in North America. Arapaho Peak defines this eastern most projection.
The weather station generating our graphs is in a forested setting
8550' high. The anemometer for measuring wind speeds is set fairly high,
but is moderated by its surrounding forest. Wind gusts on the lakes
(or on a ski slope) can be much higher than what we experience in the forests.
Selected instrument readings are shown depending on which parameters have
recently given interesting variations. Fluctuations in the yellow solar radiation
graph are caused by passing clouds. As data is accumulated, we will provide
pages giving monthly and annual trends. Our data collection began near the
end of July of the year 2000.
A few months ... after scenery and sports images
are removed from this weather page, they can reappear on our Scenery page.
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