{"id":795321,"date":"2019-04-30T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=365234"},"modified":"2019-04-30T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T15:37:44","slug":"colorados-snowpack-delivered-an-epic-ski-season-now-its-rafters-turn-even-if-theyre-a-little-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorados-snowpack-delivered-an-epic-ski-season-now-its-rafters-turn-even-if-theyre-a-little-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s snowpack delivered an epic ski season. Now it\u2019s rafters\u2019 turn \u2014 even if they\u2019re a little nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/ShoshoneFloat-VDN-010219-1-1-600x395.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/ShoshoneFloat-VDN-010219-1-1-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/ShoshoneFloat-VDN-010219-1-1-600x395-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><figcaption><strong>Dan Koepke, right, and Zach Patterson take on the icy Colorado River on New Year\u2019s Day 2019.<\/strong><br \/><em>John LaConte | jlaconte@vaildaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s snowpack is reaching historic proportions this spring, and that leaves fans of whitewater excited \u2014 and a bit nervous. Last year\u2019s slim snowpack threatened to run river rafting companies out of business, especially in southern Colorado, where rafters were left scrounging for trickles of water. This year, enthusiasts see opportunity, as all rivers look ready to run wild. In fact, it\u2019s hard to pick where to go first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at the water levels every few days,\u201d said Vincent Lujan of Denver, who last year spent 90 days on rivers all over Colorado, \u201cand it\u2019s like you\u2019re looking through a catalogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All over Colorado, river forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are seeing snowpacks of up to 200 percent of average in Southworth\u2019s area, southern Colorado, with those same snowpacks in the top three of the past 30 years. Snowpacks over the rest of Colorado are still great but more moderate, more like 120 percent of median statewide as of Friday, ranks that put them in the top 10 of the past 30 years. That still leaves room for excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2019\/04\/29\/colorado-rafters-ready-for-runoff\/\">The Colorado Sun.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The&nbsp;Colorado&nbsp;Sun&nbsp;is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in&nbsp;Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradosun.com\/\"><em>coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorados-snowpack-delivered-an-epic-ski-season-now-its-rafters-turn-even-if-theyre-a-little-nervous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Koepke, right, and Zach Patterson take on the icy Colorado River on New Year\u2019s Day 2019.John LaConte | jlaconte@vaildaily.com Colorado\u2019s snowpack is reaching historic proportions this spring, and that leaves fans of whitewater excited \u2014 and a bit nervous. Last year\u2019s slim snowpack threatened to run river rafting companies out of business, especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:26:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}