Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[AlpiNord]

What I will say is nothing on Earth beats a mid-week under-reported pow day.

Coupled with zero traffic and zero lift lines.

[WTF is dat]

Eldora? Really?

Yes I said Eldora. Do you know how to read?

If you did, you would notice that I stated that I generally ski two days a week in Summit/Eagle County, and lap eldora in the mornings maybe once a week. I also pointed out that having a real job enables me to go skiing in places like Alaska/PNW.

Eldora has actually been really good this season too. Plenty of snow everywhere on the mountain. Never ever lift lines. Dope cliffs and pillow lines in the trees, and Eldora actually has more consistent pitch/steeps than Vail, Keystone, etc. Last time I checked, Salto Glades was ranked as one of the steepest runs in the state of Colorado.

[WTF is dat]

Mountain dweller here. On the pussy argument you win, although the lack of trim in ski towns is about as well worn a meme as "PM Rontele." But "culture?" What do you mean "culture?" Like you go to the opera in a tux? Art museums? "Ah, a brilliant expression of negative space." Please, you and I can both enjoy JoeStrummer's most excellent "Roma" thread if we need "culture." Face facts, without the Rocky Mountains next door, Denver is a sprawling dump. Boulder is cool like most college towns but once you get past 22, you kind of turn into a pumpkin, no?

Just stirring shit to get with the zeitgeist of this thread. What I will say is nothing on Earth beats a mid-week under-reported pow day.

Yes, the pussy argument is as well worn out as "PM Rontele"............. because it is true.

Yes I am talking about the opera, the art museums, the nightclubs, the fine dining, the concerts at red rocks, etc. I love urban walkable spaces like Boulder, Lodo, Wash Park, etc.

I disagree that Denver is a sprawling dump. Almost every major American city is a sprawling mess. I challenge you to find a metro area that is nicer, cleaner, friendlier, and less sprawling than the Denver metro area. MAYBE Portland and Seattle beat Denver in this regard, but that is certainly up for debate. I really don't think you can find many metro areas in The US that are as nice as the Denver metro area.

I also love mid week under reported pow days. I have enjoyed many of them this season.

[Bronic]

There's a reason for closing threads.................................

The skiing in colorado in fucking awesome right now and somehow you guys find a way to derail the "Weather thread"

Here's some color map shit, talk about it.

[MakersTeleMark]

I love tacos, pussy, and making fun of Alabama.

Now carry on.

[fastfred]

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.

AWESOME BABY!!! Good stuff, really is, funny and well written, I'm not bs'ing you either. I can't beleave the entertainment pages and pages, just when TGR was getting boring.

You know what is funny is your post is right on, no joke, you didn't really make anything up. I got dropped off by the grayhound years ago, summit was never in the plan, it was something I didn't really know existed. Till I got off the bus one day and was like what the fuck. Every day I think about the plan I had growing up and so forth till I got here.

You are right, I don't have shit to my name, I've got social security to look forward to, I'm gonna live my last years off the goverment and their gonna take care of me like every other poor fuck out there. My body hurts every day, my back is more and more fucked each year. Insurance is optional so seeing someone about my aging body isn't something I really think about much.

The things I've gotten to do over the years is killer, I wouldn't trade it for some fucking family and all the bullshit that comes with it. Like insurance, retirment. Coke off the back of toilets, drunken stupidity, 360's in the middle of the highway, squatting around town for a couple years. The funny thing is today me and my bro were just going to town at full speed yip yapping about the snow, the skiing, how shit has changed over the years, it took about 2 hrs for us to get it all out, it was pretty funny, boy did we have shit to say about front rangers...... ha ha.....

So yeah, that poor sap driving the bus around with the greatful dead on, I know who that is, the person you described exists, I know their story, it's probably not some made up I'm a douche trying to look good in the suburbs story that you might want to share with us. It's probably about getting fucked up pretty good on a regular basis and haning out in the mountains, living the dream. That's code word for mtn people, living the dream. Then one day you do wake up and realize what is that dream, what have I been doing, do I want to sober up now or not, do I want to take on any responsiblity, or do I want to keep on going.

[WTF is dat]

yes because addiction to drugs and alcohol is so core brah

[Micol]

You can have the opera, I will take this any day. These are from this morning in
maytag repairman style lonely deep snow filled bowl with hardly any avy worry.
I had about 9-10 untracked laps before the first person showed up. This is Summit
County. It did get gaped out after the hordes moved in...

[hitek79]

Monarch was pretty good today, but Friday was better. Snow was a bit heavier today though. It dumped the first part of the day, so tomorrow should still be decent.

[Hugh Conway]

But that's just it, I don't have to defend where I live now just like I didn't when I was in the city. I don't think I'm better, and many of my best friends are "front strangers" But maybe y'all could take a joke every once in a while. I mean shit, Kevo's post was funny, mainly because it was the polar opposite of how things really are, maybe because it's what we want the city folks to think. I can laugh at it.

In other news, it's snowing again.

I take it you don't understand polar opposite.


The only part Kevo left out was "has to tell people 20 times a day how the shitty job/mountains are "living the dream""

[Smoova]

You can have the opera, I will take this any day. These are from this morning in
maytag repairman style lonely deep snow filled bowl with hardly any avy worry.
I had about 9-10 untracked laps before the first person showed up. This is Summit
County. It did get gaped out after the hordes moved in...

Do you wear a green helmet?

[Name Redacted]

I take it you don't understand polar opposite.


The only part Kevo left out was "has to tell people 20 times a day how the shitty job/mountains are "living the dream""

My job sucks, carry on. Not supposed to post on teh forumz while working the fryer.

[Micol]

Do you wear a green helmet?

white, kinda beat up too

but if you were back there maybe you saw the solo ripping chick with the liberty skis? who was that??
girl ripped by me while I was getting ready to take a pee in the trees...

[Smoova]

^Ha! Didn't see her today. Thought I might have chatted with you on the lift that is just east of the one in your photos, but it must have been someone else.

[Danno]

I don't want the fucking opera, the theater, and all that shit (I do like having a few good places to eat, but I'm not that picky). I want to be retired and bike and ski and drink beer and all that shit, FAR FAR FAR away from the city (hint: Summit ain't near far enough). But alas, I want to own a house, I need health insurance, I need some money to repair my truck when it needs it and to be able to buy a new one when it shits the bed, I need to know that when I'm 65 I will be able to look to the future and see a good life ahead of me and not have to look behind me to see that good life, though I also want to be able to look back and see a good life, I need to live a pretty good life now, I need to be able to take vacations from my life even if I love my life. So I make do. We all do. Sigh.

[Hugh Conway]

My job sucks, carry on. Not supposed to post on teh forumz while working the fryer.

every time you post about how you live the dream, I life at the comedy. Fuck yah brah Summit County! it's the shit, no finer mountains in the world!

[Name Redacted]

every time you post about how you live the dream, I life at the comedy. Fuck yah brah Summit County! it's the shit, no finer mountains in the world!

Troll away, you're on your way to 20K!

[Lindahl]

every time you post about how you live the dream, I life at the comedy. Fuck yah brah Summit County! it's the shit, no finer mountains in the world!

^^ I think he's in Aspen, but yeah, if I wanted to do the mountain life thing, theres no way in hell I'd do it here. Crested Butte would be the only CO location I'd consider. Lots better choices than CO, in my opinion. Maybe if I grew up in the midwest or east coast, I'd settle for CO. That said, I love my "9-5" job and what I actually do, a place in the city, a place in the mountains, never a second thought about money, health or a good future, work when I want, play when I want, but its hard to find a job that can do all that. Just lucky, I guess.

[Micol]

^Ha! Didn't see her today. Thought I might have chatted with you on the lift that is just east of the one in your photos, but it must have been someone else.

Other than getting back there, that is the only lift I rode the entire time pretty much from about 9:20 til 12:30. I will be back there again tomorrow if you're around those parts. on black lhasa pows

I don't want the fucking opera, the theater, and all that shit (I do like having a few good places to eat, but I'm not that picky). I want to be retired and bike and ski and drink beer and all that shit, FAR FAR FAR away from the city (hint: Summit ain't near far enough). But alas, I want to own a house, I need health insurance, I need some money to repair my truck when it needs it and to be able to buy a new one when it shits the bed, I need to know that when I'm 65 I will be able to look to the future and see a good life ahead of me and not have to look behind me to see that good life, though I also want to be able to look back and see a good life, I need to live a pretty good life now, I need to be able to take vacations from my life even if I love my life. So I make do. We all do. Sigh.

I pretty much decided it was ok to be pretty destitute when I moved to the mtns. I was content with it. Things have turned lately but it was not planned. I just want to be here and enjoy it. I have no ill will towards front rangers or mtn ppl. I shun them all if they are selfish , uncaring, pricks. I don't really have a plan for the future and haven't for a while other than trying to enjoy every single day that I can, while I can.

[JoeStrummer]

Fuck yah brah Summit County! it's the shit, no finer mountains in the world!

Don't shatter our illusions, man. It's all we have!!

Actually I think Summit County is in the middle of the hierarchy. San Juaners make fun of Aspenites. Aspenites make fun of SuCos. SuCos make fun of Denverites. Denverites make fun of Texans. Texans make fun of Mexicans. Mexicans make fun of Guatemalans. Etc etc.

[WTF is dat]

guys I am just trolling to stir up the pot a little and change perspectives on the Denver area.

There are certainly some benefits to living in an urban area, but of course I think living in the mountains is awesome too.

Carry on....

= )

[Danno]

Don't shatter our illusions, man. It's all we have!!

Actually I think Summit County is in the middle of the hierarchy. San Juaners make fun of Aspenites. Aspenites make fun of SuCos. SuCos make fun of Denverites. Denverites make fun of Texans. Texans make fun of Mexicans. Mexicans make fun of Guatemalans. Etc etc.

So true! Maybe that's why the SuCos making fun of me makes me tweak, because I used to be at the top of the hierarchy, making fun of the people who made fun of them!

[Kevo]

AWESOME BABY!!! Good stuff, really is, funny and well written, I'm not bs'ing you either. I can't beleave the entertainment pages and pages, just when TGR was getting boring.

You know what is funny is your post is right on, no joke, you didn't really make anything up. I got dropped off by the grayhound years ago, summit was never in the plan, it was something I didn't really know existed. Till I got off the bus one day and was like what the fuck. Every day I think about the plan I had growing up and so forth till I got here.

You are right, I don't have shit to my name, I've got social security to look forward to, I'm gonna live my last years off the goverment and their gonna take care of me like every other poor fuck out there. My body hurts every day, my back is more and more fucked each year. Insurance is optional so seeing someone about my aging body isn't something I really think about much.

The things I've gotten to do over the years is killer, I wouldn't trade it for some fucking family and all the bullshit that comes with it. Like insurance, retirment. Coke off the back of toilets, drunken stupidity, 360's in the middle of the highway, squatting around town for a couple years. The funny thing is today me and my bro were just going to town at full speed yip yapping about the snow, the skiing, how shit has changed over the years, it took about 2 hrs for us to get it all out, it was pretty funny, boy did we have shit to say about front rangers...... ha ha.....

So yeah, that poor sap driving the bus around with the greatful dead on, I know who that is, the person you described exists, I know their story, it's probably not some made up I'm a douche trying to look good in the suburbs story that you might want to share with us. It's probably about getting fucked up pretty good on a regular basis and haning out in the mountains, living the dream. That's code word for mtn people, living the dream. Then one day you do wake up and realize what is that dream, what have I been doing, do I want to sober up now or not, do I want to take on any responsiblity, or do I want to keep on going.

It's really tough, because it is hard to find the right balance in-between the two extremes. The flip side of the coin is actually being the rat in the cage, the exact caricature that was referred to earlier in this thread.

The guy with the wife and kids and dog. And mortage, and car payment and credit card debt and a home equity line of credit so his wife could get a fucking lat-band surgery because she is too fucking lazy after years of being a stay at home mom to get off her ass and actually work the fuck out. Not on some elliptical trainer burning 100 calories and hour reading fucking People magazine while listening to some daytime television drivel in background before she goes and eats Special K. No, the vixen sex princess who used to fuck you in the dressing room at R.E.I. while gearing up for a week long climbing trip burning ACTUAL calories and honestly working out carrying a pack and tent where she'd fuck your brains out again.

That was great until you settled down to get a "real job" (whose idea is it that this is really living, again?) and "settling down".

Getting out of the lifestyle and getting a real job and a house was awesome compared to living like shit in a ski bum house, and you'd still get to ski on the weekends. The house was cool too- a new build with enough room for a man cave where you'd get to hang ski movie posters and wax skis with your buds while watching ski movies getting ready for the season to start.

Except those nights prepping for the season with your buds happened only once or twice and then never again as they started having kids. And then you had kids and your wife stopped working and you got into debt trying to keep up the lifestyle. You need a new car every couple years so your neighbors and coworkers think of you as successful and your wife "needs" to go to some vacation destination her friend tagged on Pinterest to impress her friends. And she gained weight and your kids were ruining your life.

You just need a raise to pull it back together, but your boss has you by the balls and he knows it, so you don't get as much as you should. What are you going to do about, tell him to fuck off and walk away? You can't. The burden of the mortgage and the debt makes you compliant and polite.

You used to have adventure in your life and you used to pursue goals. You'd climb and travel to cool places like Mexico and Thailand and Nepal. But not anymore. Not since the kids. Don't you need to start a 529 plan? The kids will be in college before you know it and how the hell are you going to pay for that?

And your wife won't fuck you because you don't have balls anymore. She's not attracted to the less dangerous, cleaned up polite version of the former rough-around-the-edges you. She doesn't like that you don't take chance and that you take all that shit from your boss. It's emasculating to be in that position. So she goes to the gym and reads People magazie while on the elliptical. She eats Special K and Yo-Plait and pretends it will make her fit. She doesn't care though, really. The Xanax away her ability to care years ago.

You don't ski because it isn't convenient. There was a ton of snow on SuperBowl weekend and she wouldn't let you go ski it because the kids had basketball and "Weren't you going to spend tomorrow at Pete's watching the game? I need a day for me! What the hell? The woman has every day of the week off. You don't push the issue. The new you doesn't do that.

Then the Broncos fucking lost and if you had just been able to ski instead, life wouldn't suck so much.

But then Keystone got 11 inches of snow. Finally, you finally get to ski. She tries to come up with some reason why you shouldn't go, but you just go. The snow was good for like the first 30 minutes and then it got so crowded and most of it was skied off the day before anyway. This isn't anything like when you and your buds lived at the base of the mountain and skied every day. How the hell are there this many people in line for a high speed quad?

So you just get out of there and drive home early at 2 o'clock, so you can get home before it's too late and somehow get stuck in traffic for 9 hours. You didn't get home until after the kids had gone to bed. She'll guilt trip you about this for at least two weeks and there is no way you are getting laid for a very long time. You'll have plenty of time to think about that and maybe the days you have skiing powder with your bros when you return to your cage tomorrow.

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So anyway, think about that the next time you get smug looking at the red lights sitting there, stuck in place on their way up to the tunnel. I'm trying to find a some medium that allows something in between our two caricatures. I'm not nearly a good enough skier to get paid to do it, so I'm trying to build a career and save money and keep the option open to be able take a risk that will pay off so I can ski a lot and travel more while I'm you instead of getting stuck in suburban hell.

[Danno]

I pretty much decided it was ok to be pretty destitute when I moved to the mtns. I was content with it. Things have turned lately but it was not planned. I just want to be here and enjoy it. I have no ill will towards front rangers or mtn ppl. I shun them all if they are selfish , uncaring, pricks. I don't really have a plan for the future and haven't for a while other than trying to enjoy every single day that I can, while I can.

Right on, man. Mostly, I left the mountains because I was sick of paying rent, I wanted to own a house (a mortgage, but still...). The rest just came with it.

[Hugh Conway]

Texans make fun of Mexicans. Mexicans make fun of Guatemalans. Etc etc.

the mexicans at vail at easter make fun of everyone.