OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....

[The SnowShow]

Total shitshow, as expected.

[Foggy_Goggles]

I'm bach-ing it tonight. How much you think I could rent my extra bedrooms for.

[zartagen]

The gf is reporting people sliding backwards and pushing their 2wd trucks up to the tunnel. Took her 1 hr 45 minutes from silverthorne to the tunnel.

[Rontele]

The gf is reporting people sliding backwards and pushing their 2wd trucks up to the tunnel. Took her 1 hr 45 minutes from silverthorne to the tunnel.

epcot.

[MakersTeleMark]

I'm bach-ing it tonight. How much you think I could rent my extra bedrooms for.

Are you a good snuggler? Then mad ducats.

[concretejungle]

Can we move this thread to the HOF yet?

[GPP33]

On a normal weekend I'd have been stuck in that cluster tonight. An angle must have been looking out for me though, I found my daughters Bomber class at about 3:00, grabber her and headed out. No line for the buss and we were in the truck and rolling by 3:30. Made it half way up to the tunnel before meeting the metered traffic and slowing, but never stopped. Heavy snow picked up as we reached the tunnel. Drive down the hill was slow but everyone behaved so things moved slowly but steadily.

West bound was a complete cluster fuck and the road going up the hill east bound was getting very slick so I'm sure the people 30 minutes behind me were slipping and sliding. Cdot in thier infinate wisdom lifted the chain law shortly before the heavy snow hit so the trucks didn't have chains on when they reached the top and met the incoming snow. Morons.

The toll lane was $5 but the non toll lanes were crusing at about 70-75.

[GPP33]

Oh yea. The whole passenger car snow tire law is complete bull shit. They weren't getting tickets, they were getting free tows to the top of the hill where they we're let loose to head down and fuck up the other side of the pass. I'm still baffled as to why cdot would rather close the highway than enforce (by checkpoint) an AWD/4wd or snow tire rule.

[SkeezeBall]

Yea what was with the toll pricing today? I was cruising EB around 1pm and toll was $5 with not a single person in the toll lane and traffic was cruising. I thought it was supposed to start at $3 and go up based on demand...

[GPP33]

Thinking of skiing Loveland instead of Copper tomorrow to avoid (some of) the clusterfuck tomorrow PM

They had a "safety patrol" car at the hwy 6/I-70 merge basically blocking traffic this evening. Loveland parking lot was completely locked up. Get out early or the drive from Copper might quicker.

[The SnowShow]

Came down 285...slow and steady through the snow and then insane fog by Conifer.

[skoerb]

Just made the trip from Denver to Summit in 1.5 hours, no real traffic but slush city to Georgetown. Definitely drove through a heavy band of snow on the way out of town where bid was 20'. EB from silverthorne to the tunnel had pockets of 150 cars going 2 MPH then nothing, then more slow traffic, probably 6 tie trucks in action. From the tunnel to Idaho Springs it looked like 4:30 on a Sunday afternoon. Should be a rodeo tomorrow.

[DasBlunt]

wet heavy snow here in denver.

[Kevo]

Left Boulder at 4:40 this morning. Made it to Avon by 7:20. Actually saw state patrol pull over a trucker on Vail pass for not having chains.

Currently eating breakfast, getting ready to ski the Beav. An hour or so of lost sleep might have saved double or triple that amount of time sitting in traffic.

[stfu&gbtw]

I thought we were.going to get killed on 70 this am. slow out of the house and didn't pass 40 until 7:15. Not too bad though... Clicked in by 8:25. Fun skiing today.

[summit]

Snow plows 3 abreast 25mph for 25mi.

[resq44]

first post

[Hott Butt Mud]

Left Boulder at 4:40 this morning. Made it to Avon by 7:20. Actually saw state patrol pull over a trucker on Vail pass for not having chains.

Currently eating breakfast, getting ready to ski the Beav. An hour or so of lost sleep might have saved double or triple that amount of time sitting in traffic.

You sir, win today's "Dedicated Front Ranger" award!

[Kevo]

Finished up our last run at 12:30. On the road from Beaver Creek at 1:10. Still not to the tunnel 2.5 hours later. Fuck you, Colorado.

[Benny Profane]

Wow. Sitting in my room at the Silverthorne La Quinta before moving in tommorow, with a front row seat for this misery since 2pm. Glad I left Copper at 1. How do you people stand this?

Even dillon dam is backed up.

[galibier_numero_un]

Left A-basin at 2:05 and got to Mountain Buzz in Georgetown in "only" TWO hours.

I thought I'd beat safety metering, but they kicked it in early today. From the top of the pass to our favorite interstate took about 1:20.

Photo taken after the safety metering release point. Back to weekdays ;-)

[fastfred]

Finished up our last run at 12:30. On the road from Beaver Creek at 1:10. Still not to the tunnel 2.5 hours later. Fuck you, Colorado.

Just when you think you kicked some ass nite skiing at keystone maybe?

[Kevo]

In all honesty I fucking hate the Colorado front range. Even the Beav, which has been a good refuge from crowds for the past decade, is now getting tracked out in the first hour. Its no longer worth it to try to be a weekend warrior. By the time I get home today I will have spent 7+ hours driving for 4 hours of skiing, one of which was powder skiing.

If I could find a job that paid proportionally well and offered the same opportunity in Durango or Steamboat or Jackson or Revelstoke or Seattle or Lyon or Geneva or Wanaka I'd move in a second.

Seattle is the only decent skiing location that realistically has career options. One of my best friends moved there from Boulder a couple years ago. He's way happier there than he was in Boukder and he now skis about 30x more powder than I do.

I think I'll start seriously looking for jobs there. Fuck Colorado.

[smmokan]

Didn't I just tell you this a few nights ago, Kev?

With all the work travel you do (and the fact you're killing it with your job), I think you'd have no problem working remotely as long as you're near an airport.

[Hott Butt Mud]

Kevo, I don't know about you, but I skied about 5 solid runs this morning at Vail that were 90% untracked, then the rest of the day skied a bunch more untracked- stash after stash.

Honestly, I think the next level Front Ranger will start buying a pass to Aspen. It's no more than another 2 hours from Beav, not a big deal in the long run. Way less crowded and better terrain.