Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

**m2711c** · 05-21-2025, 04:57 PM

Big plans ahead for little cooper.

**m2711c** · 05-21-2025, 05:02 PM

Gonna a be double going right up there.

**MakersTeleMark** · 05-21-2025, 07:00 PM

Chicago Ridge makes Vail look steep, FYI. It's very deceptive from afar.

**Rideski** · 05-21-2025, 08:29 PM

We should golf up there one day. Or maybe on Sherman.

**Full Trucker** · 05-22-2025, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

Chicago Ridge makes Vail look steep, FYI. It's very deceptive from afar.

Yeah nothing at Cooper is very steep is it?

**Name Redacted** · 05-22-2025, 06:40 AM

No one goes to Cooper for the steeps, that's for sure, and no amount of terrain expansion is gonna change that. Good little community hill though.

**skaredshtles** · 05-22-2025, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by Full Trucker

Yeah nothing at Cooper is very steep is it?

Nope. But as Redacted said - it's a fantastic little local ski area. The pub in the lodge is fun, too.

**goldenboy** · 05-22-2025, 07:47 AM

I heard the rope tow is wicked steep, does that count?

**ENDOOO** · 05-22-2025, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by goldenboy

I heard the rope tow is wicked steep, does that count?

"The pub in the lodge is fun, too."
Pub is great. So is the little bar at the nordic lodge. Add in the cookhouse and you got a good night.

**Full Trucker** · 05-22-2025, 01:27 PM

If it's the pub I remember, it's awesome. Tiny little thing in one of the lodges yeah?

**ENDOOO** · 05-22-2025, 03:48 PM

the taproom is the newish building there and probably what SS is talking about. Been there 3 or 4 years now. There is also a small irish bar in the main lodge. terrible bloodies, live and learn, but still a great bar to hang at.
Nordorkers building across the parking lot has a small bar, big fireplace, 3 person rocking chair on the back deck, usually has some kind of mulled wine or other alcoholic casserole.

**m2711c** · 06-01-2025, 03:45 PM

Where is a good place to stop between Arapahoe and DEN right nowfor a quick tasty eats that won’t break the bank?

**skaredshtles** · 06-01-2025, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by m2711c

Where is a good place to stop between Arapahoe and DEN right nowfor a quick tasty eats that won’t break the bank?

Helga's

**m2711c** · 06-01-2025, 11:45 PM

Thanks, man! Just what I was looking for.

**Name Redacted** · 06-08-2025, 02:54 PM

"A born-and-raised Coloradan died after falling from a chairlift. His mom wants a state law requiring restraint bar use."https://www.summitdaily.com/news/colorado-state-law-requiring-restraint-bar-chairlift-fall-death-keystone/Here we go...

**SKIP IN7RO** · 06-08-2025, 10:40 PM

He wasn't intoxicated, drugged-up, messing with his binders, or on his phone, so what happened? Divine intervention?

**Shredhead** · 06-09-2025, 06:40 AM

I can go either way, but would rather not have it mandated.

Rode up with a Doctor last season, that had this advice.

If you have a heart attack, with the bar down, you might survive.
If you fall out, you're probably a goner.

**goldenboy** · 06-09-2025, 09:28 AM

Twenty plus years ago the mountain manager of Winter Park fell and died from one of the short double chairs at the base area, which didn't have any safety bar. It was determined that it was a seizure, something he hadn't had before. Always kind of freaked me out. I wouldn't care one way or the other if bars were required. I've probably gotten more used to it since all the Vail employees in uniform have to put the bar down. When I was skiing in S Korea, we'd get yelled at if we didn't put the bar down in under two seconds, it almost became a fun game for us though. And the new super nice six pack chairs with the heated seats and everything in Europe have automatic bars, so there's no choice in the matter.

**Danno** · 06-09-2025, 10:22 AM

But muh freedumbs!

**EWG** · 06-09-2025, 10:32 AM

I couldnt care less if the bar is required or not, or down or not. Im confused by people who hate having it down, unless they are snowboarders who can get comfy with it down. And they should ski anyway.

**Johnny H** · 06-09-2025, 06:51 PM

Four or five years ago watched a 10 year old girl in the chair ahead of me fall about 30 feet. Bar not down. She started to get up but a guy yelled at her to stay still. Father was in chair ahead of hers. I guess she made it but it sure made a believer out of me. The seizure thing mentioned above could happen to anyone. In the little girls case, she caught her skis on a tower pole somehow.

**goldenboy** · 06-09-2025, 08:02 PM

Small forest fire in Taylor Park today. It's been pretty wet so I'd like to think it won't grow. But that's one forest that looks ready to go some day..

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**summit** · 06-10-2025, 08:10 AM

I cared for a 6yo who fell out of a chairlift 20ft to groomer at Granby Ranch. She ended up being OK but scary.

**EWG** · 06-10-2025, 08:48 AM

A coworkers kid fell out of Corona lift at Eldrora when he was about 15. Fooling around, no bar, as kids do. Broken arm but otherwise ok. I did ask my kids to keep the bar down till they got older.

**The Nuclear Option** · 06-10-2025, 12:13 PM

Bar down is good, but do it carefully after announcing your intentions. As a tallish person, I have been hit in the helmet so many times by fast bar tossers.