>>For privacy, install a fence made of 4 x 4's with lattice between them. Then plant English Ivy. Within a year you will have the privacy you want and a living fence.
White lattice with climbing plants is my favorite form of fencing period :) Choose whatever plant grows in your area. English ivy grows here (MO) but for some reason we can't get it to grow along the back where we want it. Depending on which area in CO you live I'm not sure anything will stay green through the winter. We've joined lattice panels with door hinges to set around the patio or areas where we want just a little more privacy. Used the plastic lattice panels and framed them with 2x2s around the edges and have been using it for about 10 years now. Some we left 4x8, cut some in half for 2x8. The door hinges allow you to change the configuration and take them apart for storage.
We've always lived out and it's quite an adjustment living in town. We have a half fence around two sides of our yard and are putting 18" lattice panels on top of it to bring it higher. We first did it in 1979 and everytime we're in CA we drive by and it's still there :) I saw it on a blog yesterday and had to laugh, it's gotten very popular.
A cheap alternative we've used around the garden is willow saplings. Trim all the limbs and use them like fence posts. DH uses all type of trees, wires them together. He makes willow trellises and just kept using them. You can find more ideas on Google.
Wooden flats are not 6' but you can often get them for free. Take them apart and use the pieces as fencing, just need some 4x4s or T-posts for support.
If you don't have to conform to any restrictions where you live you could use T-posts with plain wire and plant climbing plants on it. We did that on the farm.
Not as fast but very effective, plant a row of boxwood, Japanese or English Holly, Nandina etc - clumping bamboo if it will grow in your area. Any of these, planted fairly close together will provide a dense, attractive fence. How fast they grow will depend on your growing area and the type of plant you select. You could put up a simple wire fence, put ivy or morning glories - any fast growing plant on it the plant your hedge in front of it and remove the wire when the plants get big enough.
Anything you put in will have to be sunk deep enough to support the fencing as you say high winds and deep snow. You want something with a little breathing area so the wind doesn't knock it down. You may have to hire someone to dig the holes for the fence posts and concrete them in but most everything else you could do yourself with a friend to hold the other end :)
Once the boys grew up and left home I became his general dogbody. We used peeler cores & horse wire for corrals. I had to support them at the base -one fell and caught me right across the head. DH was looking the other way and didn't even know it till he turned around and I was on the ground. Next spring we were enclosing one corral for foaling and I was on the outside pushing in so DH could drill screws from inside. He drilled right through the wood, through my levis and into my knee. We're still married but I remind him when he finally does away with me to get a younger wife next time!!
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