This.....late 90’s I was cooking at the Rustler. We were cleaning up after dinner service the chef came back in and told us to turn everything back on we had to feed at least a 100 people. Road was...

I had a day like that there....I think it was 1997 when the P-Dog got hit. We were sitting in the Rustler bar and watched the slide come down. An hour later we were skiing straight line to the lift....

Well said....the explosion across the west is everywhere. Reality is this corner of the state is not heavily populated. I love the boat there is some real magic there just feels right to me haven’t...

Yeah not following that one either. Plenty of room in there to open it up.

And the boat is what it is not a mountain with crazy steep terrain. But it does have long fall line runs with great tree...

I have skied 26 days this month in the boat. Today was by far the busiest day of the season. Frankly it has been dead until yesterday. A couple long gondola lines otherwise I have been skiing on...

Well Steamboat was pretty damn good today. A lot of new terrain opened today. It is thin need to keep your speed down but snow was great. Happy to be skiing and crowds were thin...no lines at all.

I think Steamboat is doing a good job with everything related to Covid. Crowds really haven’t been bad so far. It is going to be slower no matter what when you can’t run full gondola or chairs. I...

Yeah it has been limited some more openings today below 4 points. If these next rounds of snow deliver I expect to see a good amount of terrain opening this weekend.

I doubt closets and shadows...

So far no reservations at Steamboat....been here since opening day. Crowds haven’t been too bad and skiing has gotten really good since Sunday. More lifts and terrain opening. Will be interesting to...

For the most part. Possible to get a dog tag if you live up there. We lived in Big for a couple years and had a dog.

Yes they are

Their social media sure makes it seem like they are going to open next week. It sure looks thin....like really no snow besides what they are making.

We will be back up there Sunday either way for...

Yes pretty much all of Colorado at this point.

Not what I am saying. There will be transmission. Recent transmission has been primarily driven from households and parties. Halloween screwed us.

There is logic in the argument that restaurants...

I agree. Sure seems like it would be better to limit lodging versus closing all these businesses.

I agree and we are directly impacted by the virus. My wife is an MICU nurse and she is defeated, depressed and burnt out. It sucks.

Unfortunately with all these businesses closed and the holidays...

This is true but the new gondola is pretty sweet. Way higher capacity now. Covid will make it more of a pain but even when the line is huge it moves pretty fast now especially if use the singles...

Yep it sucks. My wife is an ICU nurse at one of the city hospitals it is getting bad again. Numbers are way up in hospital and the ICU. Not good will be in bad shape by next weekend. Way too much...

I can’t imagine there are a lot of ICU beds in Eagle County....a quick search shows 5. Might be more but I doubt much more. So I wouldn’t put much stock in that metric there. More important is...

This and they have been buying things without seeing them in person. At least in Steamboat.

We have a place in Steamboat and spent at least half the summer up there. We do short term rentals in...

All good advice in here. The Wasatch is great I lived there for 10 years skied a ton. Hard to beat Little Cottonwood.

Also spent 3 years living in Big Cottonwood in Silver Fork. Kept a boot pack...

This is good advice the boat is a great place. I really like the mountain tree skiing is great the runs are long you can get a lot of skiing in quickly. If you get a place near the resort don’t have...

This UofU is easy I paid out of state one year stayed the summer had a job and that was it. CU Boulder makes it really difficult....I think it is 3 years.

Yeah it is still a smallish community but can’t even compare it to when we moved here. So many more rentals now making town more transient in general. There are good things with the growth too....

This is happening every where out west. I am in Golden CO it is crazy how much it has changed since we moved here 15 years ago but the last 5 is the most dramatic change.

Even though Golden is so...

Agree skiing hard in your 20s not the same in your 40s. Through my 20s in Utah I skied at least 1,300 days. Wouldn’t trade that for anything.

Didn’t ski nearly as much in my 30s....now in my 40s...

University of Utah.....great school affordable easy to get in state tuition. Also easy to skip class and ski. I took a 5 year hiatus to study at the University of Alta. Ended up going back finished...

Well for Steamboat Ikon is the pass unless you have an employee pass. If you want unlimited Steamboat you buy the full Ikon.

Well so far Steamboat is saying no reservation unless needed. So I can imagine some really busy days having reservations.

We have a place there and don’t need to worry about parking or shuttle...

Not uncommon for Steamboat.....it can can get busy but nothing like most other resorts.

Ha....and new development as they live in a brand new apartment building......

Tell that to all the millennials that have and continue to move into the Front Range.....I think there is a sign at the state line now that says you must buy a ski pass and a mountain bike.

Good to hear coming in hot early tomorrow 6am flight out of Denver staying at the Rustler.....will be reliving our younger years skiing LCC. Baldy would be a great way to kick things off.

Hell yeah I was there.....saw Plake a few years later while ski bumming at Alta asked him about Wilmot and he laughed. Turns around and he is there with a bunch of guys I grew up skiing with at the...

Go back to the mid 90’s when snowboarding wasn’t allowed.....there were maybe 20 people really skiing there that knew the mountain. Trade off patrol took forever to get anything open. Honeycomb...

I don’t think so was at Mary Jane last Monday and was empty. It will be a shit show this weekend but always is presidents weekend. Skied Steamboat last Friday through Sunday it was busy Friday and...

I remember the same....they used to have police at the mouth of both Little and Big turning cars away. I lived in the Utard from 94 to 2005. We have our own problems with I-70 here on the Front...

Even Golden has gotten crazy expensive......inventory is low. I can't believe what people are paying for homes in town now.....but it is a pretty awesome place. I figured it would eventually...

This is a funny thread....comparisons of Colorado to Utah and each defending. Reality is this is happening everywhere out west that is near a major city. I lived in Utard from 94 to 2005 (pretty...

So much riding in Breck and the best stuff isn't on the resort.....if you are going to ride lifts Keystone or Winter Park are much better.

Pretty sweet downhill in Days Fork I used to ride a ton when I lived in BCC.

Not saying Utah is better than MIT....only trying to point out that Utah has high quality science and engineering programs which conduct research that drives private enterprise (research park is...

If you want to ski a lot and get a degree from a quality school go to Utah. Not sure what you are looking to study, but Utah is one of the best research schools in the country ranking with schools...

Except the air pollution....so nasty there.

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Just saw someone else beat me to it, but needs to be said the air quality in SLC is sh$t and so is that city. yes there is great access and...

looks like a sweet trail

Awesome....love the float plane shuttle. Many of those pictures remind me of Crested Butte.....really need to get up that way to ride.

That is the Moab way set them up with a bike and send them out there......

Dave is a good kid....he has been talking about something like this for a long time. Visited him in Hope back in 2004 and he was talking non-stop about it then.

He is truly one of the hardest...

Have fun been a couple years since we did it.....amazing place.

http://frontrangemtb.blogspot.com/2009/10/moab-wriad.html

Good group of guys involved....I think it is great they are doing their own thing the way they want to run it.