OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....

[hawkgt]

buddy and I got stuck in the shit show that is 70 on sat. 2.5 hrs from golden to WP. 40 was even slow with the asshole 2 wheel drive owner sliding all over the place. dino lots were a shit show, gape season is here.

[uglymoney]

weekend rando race brought in a band of Navajo. Fended off the raid by heading further into the hills.

Blackfeet Indians used to walk the shoulders barefoot at night but they were a shy people and when traffic backed up they would disappear onto the frontage trails till it cleared. They were last seen on the surface a decade and a half ago and are thought to be using underground mining tunnels and coal seam fires to get around nowadays.

[smitchell333]

Pretty sure that stfu is correct on this one. There were apache in Colorado. But it was before it was Colorado.

http://www.native-languages.org/colorado.htm

Looks like the Apache range came into southern CO maybe Wolf Creek to Pueblo area.

But Utes and Arapahos up north.

[simple]

Two truckers using the Silver Plume off ramp for their chain station. How do they not know there is a chain station down the hill in Georgetown?

[skiracer88_00]

1:30 drive from Loveland to southeast Aurora last night at 4:30pm. 15 mins more than it would have been on dry roads with no traffic, but it wasn't terrible.

This seems to be pretty common when it is snowy. I would like to offer my thanks to the 2-wheel drive cars with bald tires trying to make the drive from Silverthorne to the tunnel yesterday afternoon.

[joetron]

There is a thread called "why does everyone hate summit / eagle county." Maybe you should check it out


Denver as a city absolutely shits on SLC so bad it is laughable.


Your access and skiing is arguably better, but to live as a professional in an urban area denver / boulder aren't even really in the same ballpark as SLC

I lived in Denver from 05-12, (C-Springs from 93-97, and Boulder 00-01). I liked it, I enjoyed the urban vibe and bike routes and beer, but I skied a whole lot less than I do in SLC. I watched the Front Range fill in and vast swaths of Denver gentrify - and I don't necessarily think all gentrification is bad. CO is suffering from the tragedy of the commons. It's a great place. Maybe too great? Lots of people have done a great job marketing their lifestyle.

I fully realize SLC/Utah is not for everyone, and that's what keeps it liveable - and skiable. My professional class friends and I 'sacrifice' some things you enjoy in Denver so we can play hooky for half a day and smash powder during the week when it's good. When Denverians leave work early on Friday to drive up and beat traffic to ski Summit/Eagle on Saturday, my friends and I leave work at 3, drive 30min, ski 5 laps and spend happy hour at The Sitzmark.
Utah definitely needs a cooler flag logo, then we could put it on everything so everyone would 'know'

[Kinnikinnick]

1:30 drive from Loveland to southeast Aurora last night at 4:30pm. 15 mins more than it would have been on dry roads with no traffic, but it wasn't terrible.

This seems to be pretty common when it is snowy. I would like to offer my thanks to the 2-wheel drive cars with bald tires trying to make the drive from Silverthorne to the tunnel yesterday afternoon.

Yeah, I usually don't make it further than L-land or L-land pass when going that way but have to say that a good deal of the I-70 westward of there total snarl-ups seems to me to be due to how that whole merge works. Loveland skiers - and A-basin/Keystone skiers when the pass is open - basically get the priority over the summit and vail skiers = far less delays.

[Danno]

http://www.native-languages.org/colorado.htm

Looks like the Apache range came into southern CO maybe Wolf Creek to Pueblo area.

But Utes and Arapahos up north.

Yeah, and that doesn't even account for the very early migratory patterns. For example, the Navajos are from a much larger group linguistically, the Southern Athabaskans (this includes the Apaches as well). This group now exists in the southwest, but is thought to have migrated from the northwest at some point in the distant past (the Navajo origin story, however, places their creation in the 4 corners area). So depending how far we want to go back...

[Name Redacted]

I think the new tribal name is Frangers. Their territory spans the length of I25 in the Colorado territory and they are characterized by enlarged calf muscles on the right leg from constant braking, and eyes which are desensitized to the color red from over exposure to brake lights.

[stfu&gbtw]

Yeah, and that doesn't even account for the very early migratory patterns. For example, the Navajos are from a much larger group linguistically, the Southern Athabaskans (this includes the Apaches as well). This group now exists in the southwest, but is thought to have migrated from the northwest at some point in the distant past (the Navajo origin story, however, places their creation in the 4 corners area). So depending how far we want to go back...

Would be awesome if we could go back and read the Official Siberian Land Bridge Bitch Thread.

[Name Redacted]

Would be awesome if we could go back and read the Official Siberian Land Bridge Bitch Thread.

Pretty sure Powmag deleted it....

[hatchgreenchile]

There's this other road to the south that I still think should be widened into a real highway from Breck to Morrison so people have 2 options of getting home and relieving the stress on I70 on weekends like this (which is becoming more and more regular).

It wouldn't be efficient long term unless there were some major reroutes (Georgia pass for starters )

[WTF is dat]

"I like it, so it must be better!" I think trying to fit into your sister's Jordache jeans from '86 is affecting your critical thinking. You know that no everyone always has the same opinion right?

Did you ever sample the nightlife of Denver pre-2000? It wasn't all bad. White kids weren't getting shot outside Larimer Lounge.

If you fail to see how Denver becoming a vibrant economically booming (and more economically diversified) city is a good thing than I really don't know what to say to you.


This is the I70 bitch thread so whatever back to regularly scheduled bitching

[Danno]

Would be awesome if we could go back and read the Official Siberian Land Bridge Bitch Thread.

between this post and

Darker too...

Congrats sir, back to back posts that made me audibly chuckle.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

I left Denver at 5am, made it to Keystone by 6:30am, drank coffee and ripped bowls for 2 hours, then did two runs on schoolmarm and headed back at 9am, home by 10:30. I earned my epic mix stoned runs badge.

[The SnowShow]

It wouldn't be efficient long term unless there were some major reroutes (Georgia pass for starters )

It's efficient to have a highway over Hoosier, down to FairPlay and then on 285, especially when the average commutes are looking like 4+ from Summit. The ski resorts should be made to contribute for their part in this (low pass prices, endless social media posts of staged chest deep powder, etc). Think of all the pollution from those cars sitting for hours on end as well. Highly touted wind credits don't offset that!

[stfu&gbtw]

between this post and



Congrats sir, back to back posts that made me audibly chuckle.

Thanks! Glad to see my 8th grade education and 3rd grade sense of humor are paying off!

[summit]

Yeah I was about 2.5 hours from BC to Denver, but I also left BC at 10:30 because I'm not a moron.

And how long did you ski?

[Danno]

he already told you, he did two runs on Schoolmarm.

[hatchgreenchile]

It's efficient to have a highway over Hoosier, down to FairPlay and then on 285, especially when the average commutes are looking like 4+ from Summit. The ski resorts should be made to contribute for their part in this (low pass prices, endless social media posts of staged chest deep powder, etc). Think of all the pollution from those cars sitting for hours on end as well. Highly touted wind credits don't offset that!

It’s an extra 45 miles with two passes and multiple towns to go through. If you paved it 4 lanes all the way, I don’t think it’s current alignment would make it a true alternate.

[Name Redacted]

Member when those two big slides covered I70 back in the early 2000's and closed the highway for a few days? Yeah, I member. We need that again.

[adrenalated]

Member when those two big slides covered I70 back in the early 2000's and closed the highway for a few days? Yeah, I member. We need that again.

Spring 2003. It took us three days of shoveling just to get out of the driveway in Conifer and when we reached the street, it still hadn't been plowed.

[Name Redacted]

Spring 2003. It took us three days of shoveling just to get out of the driveway in Conifer and when we reached the street, it still hadn't been plowed.

Yeah. We need dat!

[summit]

Late March 03. Skiing was good. Gas stations ran out of gas. Stores and restrautns ran out of food.
Everything was shut down 3 days. Except the lifts. It was deeeeep.
Avi rose was black. They evac'd bakerville. 2 people died in slides and there a lot less BC riders back then.

[Name Redacted]

I was actually trying to get to Denver then to get surgery on my arm after breaking it.