Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

**bamboocoreONLY** · 02-10-2014, 01:58 PM

WOW what a morning at the basin. Pali was prime early then waited for zuma bowl rope to drop and was 1st in there, some stellar semi-blower turns all the way down. Pretty funny tho, when I hit the cliffs on Falcon early, they were just rollers but later the cliffs popped back out and damn I got sendy! hahahah feeling like 10/11 more and more...

**rmnpsplitter** · 02-10-2014, 02:05 PM

I really don't know why anyone would ever take on the I70 shit show on the weekend unless it was your only option for getting out. I can understand that I guess but my god what a complete cluster fuck. I used to trek up to summit every weekend. We went early, took frontage roads and never had too many issues. Just seems like it's gotten so much worse in the last 5 or so years. I bought a pass this year since a really good buddy moved to breck but fuck fighting the entire front range for weekend turns up there. No snow report is worth that shit.

**rmnpsplitter** · 02-10-2014, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by bamboocoreONLY

feeling like 10/11 more and more...

Don't want to jinx it as there's a lot of season to go but agree. Crazy amounts of snow an coverage around here. If this keeps up spring lines are going to be sending well into the summer.

**bamboocoreONLY** · 02-10-2014, 02:09 PM

^yeah, I knocked on wood after I wrote that haha. But it's all I've been thinking all week.

**smmokan** · 02-10-2014, 02:22 PM

One from Monarch's 19" day yesterday... the snow was actually better today at Loveland with "only" 13".

**flatlander#2** · 02-10-2014, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

something should be done b/c Mr weekender or Mr tourister will stop coming and go elsewhere. That will cripple VR

Oh bullshit. You own a condo in that area you've beat this everyone sucks at driving but me thing, but you have paid that price of beating the traffic to the tune of $500k+ish. You go up Friday after work, maybe buzz out Sunday am, maybe Monday early am or late Sunday after traffic put the kids in the car, let them sleep on way home. And while you are there you are buying buying buying. Shit like this weekend the people that use their VR pass 5 times a year come out thinking they'll get the good snow before the big Pres weekend. And then are shocked that there is traffic and something must be done and the resorts are responsible and something just has to be done and don't charge me and everyone else is a bad driver with a bad car and bad tires, but not me. Make passes $1500? Why? Typically people buy passes thinking this is the year, and use them 6 days. Which still beats window prices right? And if your pass is paid for you'll buy a beer, or a cup of coffee and hot chocolate because you aren't laying out any more money today. They hit it a few times and then by mid Feb are up in arms about the traffic and everyone else's godawful driving and then day trip from Centennial, Louisville when the kids are on spring break. If you are a tourist you don't fly in Saturday am, nor do you fly out Sunday night and plan on skiing Sunday if you do, you're dumb. It is the weekend day tripper causing all this trouble.

**hatchgreenchile** · 02-10-2014, 02:29 PM

Easy 1:45 drive from WP yesterday (usual is 1:15). A little slow coming over Berthoud. No big deal.

I think I70 is really going to hit a breaking point soon. Eventually, you won’t be able to get up early enough, or stay late enough. Only a few more years until shit really hits the fan, but maybe they’ll have a solution under construction then…

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**Rontele** · 02-10-2014, 02:38 PM

5 am is the new 6 am and that is when you know things are all out of sorts.

**Ireallyliketoski2** · 02-10-2014, 02:59 PM

I'm not sure which whining sessions I like more:

A) "It's not snowing, global warming may or may not be real but if it doesn't snow soon the entire state is going to burn down"
B) It's snowing and i-70 is such a shit show that eventually you'll get on i-70 at morrison and actually start driving backwards towards Kansas unless you leave at 1am"

I mean both are entertaining, but I think I like B because at least I'm reading the posts while tired after skiing so much powder, but I do like the apocalyptic vibe of A too. Tough call.

**Danno** · 02-10-2014, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by Ireallyliketoski

I'm not sure which whining sessions I like more:

A) "It's not snowing, global warming may or may not be real but if it doesn't snow soon the entire state is going to burn down"
B) It's snowing and i-70 is such a shit show that eventually you'll get on i-70 at morrison and actually start driving backwards towards Kansas unless you leave at 1am"

I mean both are entertaining, but I think I like B because at least I'm reading the posts while tired after skiing so much powder, but I do like the apocalyptic vibe of A too. Tough call.

Pretty much. You forgot that option B is a little more divisive, it also comes with the smug posts of mountain folk, who repeatedly like to point out how they're smarter, better, and somehow qualitatively different than the weekend riffraff. And the occasional smug weekend riffraff poster who points out how they beat the traffic because they're smarter, better, and somehow qualitatively different than the other weekend riffraff.

Everyone here is generally united for option A.

**Lindahl** · 02-10-2014, 03:14 PM

Puking in Breckenridge. Ankle is in rough shape after skiing hard, so I took today off, but it should be awesome the next few days. Might have to suck it up a bit, but I can't wait.

**Ireallyliketoski2** · 02-10-2014, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by Danno

Pretty much. You forgot that option B is a little more divisive, it also comes with the smug posts of mountain folk, who repeatedly like to point out how they're smarter, better, and somehow qualitatively different than the weekend riffraff. And the occasional smug weekend riffraff poster who points out how they beat the traffic because they're smarter, better, and somehow qualitatively different than the other weekend riffraff.

Everyone here is generally united for option A.

Good point, although with option A the climate change debate has been quite divisive in the past, but probably not as much so as 71% of maggots now agree that they don't care about climate change so long as they get to ski.

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**JaytaeMoney** · 02-10-2014, 03:53 PM

Sleeper day on Ajax. The last week and a half has been off the charts, so many fun lines are filled in right now.

**montanaskier** · 02-10-2014, 03:53 PM

If Denver were to ever get the Olympics, they'd build a train. What's 50billion?

**Kevo** · 02-10-2014, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by shredgnar

Thanks GOD it's monday! Front Rangers go to work like rats in a cage and we get to enjoy the mountains in peace.

Undoubtedly the best part of living the Summit County Mountain Lifestyle™ (trademark Phishshow, 2008) must be seeing those front range rats head home to their cages

The second best part is when you wake up in your 40s and something is just a bit off. You've finally worked your way up to shuttle bus driver from bell hop, which is great because your body can't lift bags anymore due to years of untreated injuries. Skiing without health insurance maybe wasn't the best idea, but you'd need someone else's idea of a "real job" to get health insurance. Fuck that!

You're as broke as you were at 20 when you dropped out of college, but it is all good because you are living the life!

The girls used to see you as the experienced rock star skier. You threw down hard on the hill and didn't hesitate to throw down at the condo either. Girls, booze even coke sometimes. How cool was it fucking college girls who wanted a place to stay in summit? Man, what a fucking lifestyle.

Except at some point, those girls started to see you as a creepy old dude. How the hell did that happen?

All your friends have either burned out or moved on, except for those core guys who couldn't be bought by the idea of working for the man. No way those guys would ever get put in a front range cage, man! If only it were easier to hang out, with everyone working different shifts stocking shelves and bouncing and doing maintenance work at the hotel. They have no savings, but whatever man- at least they aren't in a cage and at least the man doesn't own them. Those guys are cool. They still get after it between working whatever part time jobs they have.

Then your realize that your core bros who stuck it out are just a sad reflection. You see their gray hair, their failing bodies, the dead end jobs. They are you, and you are them. You'd think about it more, but it is time to eat some instant noodles before jumping back on the shuttle bus. It's a sweet gig, because the bus has XM radio. Channel 23 has the Grateful Dead 24/7. How cool is that? "It's just a box of rain", or something like that. Man, what deep lyrics. Such an awesome job, getting to listen to this all day.

They'll never put you or your bros in a cage, never.

**smmokan** · 02-10-2014, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by fastfred

no, just the truth

Far from the truth, my friend.

But then again, what do I know? I'm one of those poor saps that live on the Front Range and have a "real job" working "real hours". I'm clearly not as smart, cool, or as rippin' a skier as the "locals" who live in the mountains so I should probably just keep to myself.

**cmsummit** · 02-10-2014, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by bamboocoreONLY

WOW what a morning at the basin. Pali was prime early then waited for zuma bowl rope to drop and was 1st in there, some stellar semi-blower turns all the way down. Pretty funny tho, when I hit the cliffs on Falcon early, they were just rollers but later the cliffs popped back out and damn I got sendy! hahahah feeling like 10/11 more and more...

Hey, keep your mouth shut in this thread unless you're venting about the I70 shit show!

Breck was most excellent this morning. Skiing the fall line right off the summit of Peak 7 was $$$. I agree, it's feeling a lot like '10/'11, but we need it to keep snowing right through April for it to finish similarly. I'm pretty sure I have just as much snow in my yard now as I did at the same time that season.

**Name Redacted** · 02-10-2014, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by Kevo

Undoubtedly the best part of living the Summit County Mountain Lifestyle™ (trademark Phishshow, 2008) must be seeing those front range rats head home to their cages

The second best part is when you wake up in your 40s and something is just a bit off. You've finally worked your way up to shuttle bus driver from bell hop, which is great because your body can't lift bags anymore due to years of untreated injuries. Skiing without health insurance maybe wasn't the best idea, but you'd need someone else's idea of a "real job" to get health insurance. Fuck that!

You're as broke as you were at 20 when you dropped out of college, but it is all good because you are living the life!

The girls used to see you as the experienced rock star skier. You threw down hard on the hill and didn't hesitate to throw down at the condo either. Girls, booze even coke sometimes. How cool was it fucking college girls who wanted a place to stay in summit? Man, what a fucking lifestyle.

Except at some point, those girls started to see you as a creepy old dude. How the hell did that happen?

All your friends have either burned out or moved on, except for those core guys who couldn't be bought by the idea of working for the man. No way those guys would ever get put in a front range cage, man! If only it were easier to hang out, with everyone working different shifts stocking shelves and bouncing and doing maintenance work at the hotel. They have no savings, but whatever man- at least they aren't in a cage and at least the man doesn't own them. Those guys are cool. They still get after it between working whatever part time jobs they have.

Then your realize that your core bros who stuck it out are just a sad reflection. You see their gray hair, their failing bodies, the dead end jobs. They are you, and you are them. You'd think about it more, but it is time to eat some instant noodles before jumping back on the shuttle bus. It's a sweet gig, because the bus has XM radio. Channel 23 has the Grateful Dead 24/7. How cool is that? "It's just a box of rain", or something like that. Man, what deep lyrics. Such an awesome job, getting to listen to this all day.

They'll never put you or your bros in a cage, never.

Whatever you gotta tell yourself bub.....

**cmsummit** · 02-10-2014, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by Kevo

Undoubtedly the best part of living the Summit County Mountain Lifestyle™ (trademark Phishshow, 2008) must be seeing those front range rats head home to their cages

The second best part is when you wake up in your 40s and something is just a bit off. You've finally worked your way up to shuttle bus driver from bell hop, which is great because your body can't lift bags anymore due to years of untreated injuries. Skiing without health insurance maybe wasn't the best idea, but you'd need someone else's idea of a "real job" to get health insurance. Fuck that!

Yep, every 40 something that lives in a mountain town is EXACTLY as you described. Brilliant post.

Signed,
41 y.o. professional with a home and family. 18 year resident.

**Wildman** · 02-10-2014, 05:04 PM

The only reason there is so much whining right now is because we have been in a killer storm cycle and the skiing everywhere is PHENOMENAL. I'll take deep deep powder any time i can get it. I-70 is always a gamble (much like any interstate, anywhere in bad weather). Thankfully, there are numerous ways to mitigate/avoid it. The alternative is no traffic and a shitty snow year like 2 years ago. It sucks when you get bit, but fuck the skiing is good right now.

**PowTron** · 02-10-2014, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by mdblows

Are people unaware of the existence of 285?

Shut your whore mouth!

**Name Redacted** · 02-10-2014, 05:20 PM

I really didn't mean to start some pissing match. I do my thing and you do yours folks. I put time in in the big city, and even worse places. I was just stoked to have a "slower" day on the hill and hoping that the shitshow was over. Sometimes weekends in this place get to ya.

But I will say that I did make a few pow turns before work today and it sure was nice. Probably gonna do the same tomorrow. Don't really need to defend my way of life, maybe some of you do.

**Danno** · 02-10-2014, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Danno

Pretty much. You forgot that option B is a little more divisive, it also comes with the smug posts of mountain folk, who repeatedly like to point out how they're smarter, better, and somehow qualitatively different than the weekend riffraff. And the occasional smug weekend riffraff poster who points out how they beat the traffic because they're smarter, better, and somehow qualitatively different than the other weekend riffraff.

Oh, my bad, I forgot the smug posts of front rangers, who repeatedly like to point out that while they are weekend riffraff, they have made smarter and better long term choices than the mountain folk.

This one never gets old. Or, rather, it got old a long time ago yet we still seem to go over it time and again.

**JoeStrummer** · 02-10-2014, 05:29 PM

I wouldn't ski Breckenridge if you offered me unlimited balls deep in Kate Upton AND said Mr T would be my butler for a year. On the other hand, CMSummit and that place go together like Thoreau and Walden Pond. He finds it filled with sublime pleasures and I avoid it like a DUI checkpoint. Thus this works out perfectly for both him AND me.

Why can't we all just get along?

Also, I just drove back from Steamboat so my wife could get to a meeting in Atlanta tomorrow. I did not notice I had received the poorly spelled text below from her or I would've went to SolVista or something. Perhaps I should monitor my texts more carefully.?