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01-28-2023, 11:26 AM #38576
17K ppl on the mountain today. I've never seen anything like it in person. There've been lines before but what is happening today is no doubt something special. People were walking *up* Mt. Werner from Meadows lot, many in the roundabouts, traffic was gridlocked, every artery. Delayed openings and lift issues are cherry on top.
I was stuck on Elkhead lift for close to 15 minutes after a few laps this am then got the F outta there.
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01-28-2023, 11:54 AM #38577
Colorado Weather Discussion Thread
Last edited by The SnowShow; 01-28-2023 at 01:42 PM.
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01-28-2023, 01:16 PM #38578
We've been on Ikon for years. Today was...an especially different, extra spicy weekend wanker show. Full stop.
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01-28-2023, 01:38 PM #38579
^Any events in town causing that? In Breck we have the ice sculpture contest bringing crowds this weekend but was hoping to hit the boat on Monday to score some of this storm cycle.
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01-28-2023, 03:06 PM #38580Registered User
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Damn. Now I feel ok about my maybe 10 minute wait at Pali after lap 2. Which turned to ski on once people spread out, at least until I had to get out of there around 10:30. That rope drop on the face was great and I timed it perfectly.
If it weren’t a crowded Saturday and I had the time I would have loved to have gotten back to zuma, sure that would have skied great without a crust underneath.
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01-28-2023, 04:48 PM #38581Registered User
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Sounds like we were on the same schedule this AM, but I did make it out to cornice and was still hitting crust underneath. Pali & Beavers skied better imo, although the trees at bottom of Zuma were super fun when I ran through there after the cornice.
Glad I didn’t stay in Steamboat last night, took my Thursday PM and Friday turns and gtfo
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01-28-2023, 05:12 PM #38582
Holy fuck, nearly 18.5k at WP today.
Busiest day ever, literally. The lines at the base were absolutely bonkers.
FFS. If I could only ski on the weekends I'd find another hobby.
Don't know how people do it.
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01-28-2023, 05:47 PM #38583
I know people are in denial but the busy is us. In the almost 30 years I've lived in Colorado, the population has grown +50%. Lots of those people like to go skiing, many on the weekends.
For every person that says fuck it!, another one buys a pair of Black Crows jumps in the Outback and gets Mountain-y AF!
The struggle is real but if Lumburg keeps you chained down in the week or you don't want to take the kids outta school, best to just own it. The amazement and outrage got old years ago. Ski or don't ski but quit being surprised about how it all goes down.
Re: WP Today...go early, figure out options beside the Gondi or the SuperGay and it was pretty manageable so so I was told.
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01-28-2023, 05:53 PM #38584
Foggy gets it. I was unfortunately stuck at the gondola, but I still got some good runs in.
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01-28-2023, 05:53 PM #38585
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01-28-2023, 05:58 PM #38586
Colorado Weather Discussion Thread
I was able to get around by using the less popular lifts pretty well till about 10:30. Then after lunch the lift lines were about normal. But 10:30 - 12:00 there was no escape and everything was mobbed.
Even with all the crowds though as long as you are not going to all the popular spots you can find deep turns all day long. I was still able to find uninterrupted knee deep turns at 3.
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01-28-2023, 06:10 PM #38587
Glad to hear you were able to navigate the madness. It really isn't that bad if you know where to go and have more than a sliver of patience/tolerance for lines, and the Jerrys generally stick to the groomers.
I suppose my rant should come with a disclaimer that I'm a jaded AF local who has worked in resort ops for nearly 20 years. We LOVE to bitch about the crowds while we are simultaneously aware that those same crowds provide our job security.
The growth of this place is still crazy, but you can't turn back the clock, so Foggy is spot-on in his comments.
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01-28-2023, 06:15 PM #38588
Today sucked. I saw lots of cars in a nice organized line from a distance
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01-28-2023, 06:52 PM #38589
was out skiing breck from 11:30 til 3 and Tbar had a decent line til the end. Imperial empty tho with the low vis. In any case, deepest day of the year here for sure. Just silly deep in a lot of spots.
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01-28-2023, 07:13 PM #38590
I was done with the crowds and switched to touring to get away from them in the early 2000s. The thought of a 2003 crowd or traffic being bad seems quaint now. Once I had kids and they started skiing that was not really an option anymore. I learned to chill out and navigate the mountain better.
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01-28-2023, 08:47 PM #38591
Jeez guys, cut me some slack. I get it completely. Point is, I really didn't think it could get any worse than it has been past few years. I was wrong. Every pow weekend the crowd just gets...more aggressive/intense (?). Not sure of term to use. Yet they are dumber, less self-aware at the same time. Still whiplash/revenge travel from Covid? No idea. After 30 years in CO, I expect many changes including growth but not to this degree of mass tourism. I don't know how else to describe it and how people roll over and accept this as just what life is about. I met day-trippers from Denver and Foco today. Really? Drive past pow to ski pow? Sheeple.
Thankfully, we've had a plethora of weekday pow skiing this season, and I've logged some awesome tours when it's been safe to venture out of the flat zone; my cup runneth over. Some sunshine in the forecast for more than 12 hours is looking real nice, too, gotta be honest with that one.
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01-28-2023, 10:34 PM #38592Registered User
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This shit sounds terrible embrace the suck love the suck don't be part of the suck
Totally bummer today popped outa the woods finally saw other people 2 hrs later lucky for me they were pretty girls and the third was a buddy
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01-29-2023, 07:00 AM #38593Registered User
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I knew it was gonna be f'd when the knoll lot was 1/2 full at 0630 when I rolled in for work. Yesterday's gridlock around the mountain sounded ridiculous. Workers couldn't get to work on time. Once overflow is full people just park wherever they can. Condolands, Central Park, Downtown. Definitely one of the busiest days ever. It was amazing how many people I talked to came up from Denver, Boulder, even a guy from CSprings who said that Steamboat is basically in his backyard...what a mindset...Seems like there's 1-2 weekend days like this a season the past 5 years or so where crowds are north of 16k. The boat can't handle that many skiers. It'll probably become more common too with the whole 8 billion plus people moving around the world these days.
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01-29-2023, 07:10 AM #38594
Did the Challenger Iron Horse alternative pan out? A short hike to I H seems to beat the line out of the maze a lot of days.
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01-29-2023, 05:50 PM #38595
Still stellar skiing in Breck today. Lines went from 100 to 0 right at noon which was sweet. gotta "beat the traffic"
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01-29-2023, 06:59 PM #38596
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01-30-2023, 09:43 AM #38597
Colorado Weather Discussion Thread
Went out this weekend in search of the deep stuff and found it. ULLR!
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01-30-2023, 09:51 AM #38598
Amazeballs
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01-30-2023, 09:58 AM #38599Registered User
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I don't think I waited in line for even 5 minutes at WP yesterday. Maybe once or twice. Walk-on empty gondolas at 2pm.
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01-30-2023, 10:04 AM #38600
Yesterday was nice here at WP. 5k+ fewer skiers compared to Sat. certainly helped.
Today's gonna be even better, puking out there, nobody here.
Today is day 50 since a delayed start to my season on 11/25. Legs are starting to feel strong, endurance is coming along.
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