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Thread: OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
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11-24-2018, 06:06 PM #5551Registered User
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Left copper at noon, through the tunnel at 2, back in Denver at 3.
Friends left copper at 130 and are still aimlesslu dicking around in Summit somewhere, unable to get home.
The last three miles from Dillon to the tunnel was Epic/Ikonic levels of shit show. Passed several sections with cars spinning their summer tires in both the left and right lanes so that traffic had to filter into the middle Lane to pass.
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11-24-2018, 07:50 PM #5552Registered User
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not unprecedented tho. same thing Thanksgiving weekend in 08, got stuck in Frisco due to closure of tunnel. ended up with a room in a ski share for the season and essentially never moved back to front range. maybe a different weekend but seem to recall a great pow Turkey day at copper...
that said, yes idiots w bad tires.
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11-24-2018, 09:01 PM #5553
Hey, they may be summer tires, but if I just gun it harder....turning em into flats.
Helped push a guy that just would not stop spinning em hard. I could smell the rubber just going...
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11-24-2018, 09:08 PM #5554
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
One of the closures was 15 spun out cars east of S’thorne. Vail on-ramp to Vail Pass was closed too, then reopened, only to close right away after 5 more immediate spin outs. Sounds awesome.
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11-24-2018, 09:55 PM #5555
Conditions deteriorated fast. Expecting everyone to be driving around with appropriate tires is a lot to ask. Look around. This is not the land of responsibility.
But deteriorated conditions were fantastic for more selfish pursuits.
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11-24-2018, 10:34 PM #5556
Got caught in the WB closure at Empire and missed the last exit to the Frontage Rd. Was 2:10 from Lakewood to WP with slow going on the pass too.
i shred the gnar
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11-24-2018, 10:38 PM #5557
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11-24-2018, 10:56 PM #5558
^^^^^
You should have been here yesterday!
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11-24-2018, 11:28 PM #5559
Breaking! Braking!
Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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11-24-2018, 11:30 PM #5560
Yin yang.
Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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11-25-2018, 02:07 AM #5561Registered User
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Hey guys,
How good is the summit stage bus if staying in silverthorne?
me and the mrs are there for two weeks in feb. been told by heaps of people that the buses are good and you won't need a car. however I'm the type of person that is there well before first lifts and leaves early.
no probs driving on snow.
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11-25-2018, 07:58 AM #5562Registered User
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11-25-2018, 05:36 PM #5563Registered User
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before I moved to summit, we came up for a new years. from what I recall and think I've heard recently is the transfers from s'throne to the other side of the county is inefficient...but check to see if that is still the case.
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11-26-2018, 07:01 PM #5564
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
Saw something I’ve never seen before this AM: some asshole in a BMW X3 got frustrated and passed three cars and an oil truck going WB, near the top of Loveland Pass, with bad visibility around that final blind bend near the top (blowing snow). The road was snowpacked and slippery. Thought he was going to slam head first into an EB vehicle and subsequently take a ride off the edge. Amazing how stupid people are.
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11-26-2018, 10:44 PM #5565
Saw a similar incident recently. When can we enact street justice on the roads? Not enough cops in this state and the road ragers know it.
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11-26-2018, 11:39 PM #5566
How valuable is your time? Buses are NOT fast, but save car rentals, gas, and parking.. look at the time tables and plan your route. There is even an app with live bus location (so you know if they are behind).
The only time I ride those buses is when my car is in the shop... or one in a while to Breck because Breck winter parking is a shitshow of shuttles, pay parking, and gondolas.Originally Posted by blurred
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11-27-2018, 08:57 AM #5567Registered User
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Best use of the bus is from Frisco to Copper.
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11-27-2018, 09:22 AM #5568
Or from peak 6 > sky chutes> bus >Breck
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11-27-2018, 10:28 AM #5569
On that note: When you see cars around you slowing down and pulling to the shoulder, before flying past them, put your phone down, look in your mirror, and if you see red and blue lights (emergency vehicle) pull over and let it pass! Then, allow those people who were paying attention to get back into the driving lane. Thanks and have a nice day!
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11-27-2018, 12:03 PM #5570
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
Sunday I 70 was such a clusterfuck by early afternoon that everyone rerouted to Loveland pass, resulting in a stream going 5-10mph over the pass.
Only time that I’ve seen it in the pass where there were too many cars for hitchhiking because they were going too slow to be worth it.
I just stayed until after dark when the delay minimized but there were still thousands of us on 70
Must have been people taking the 4 hour Vail to Denver trips.
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11-27-2018, 12:24 PM #5571Registered User
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I feel like if there were more turn arounds on I70 it would solve a ton of these problems. I've been stopped for 2 hrs on Vail pass right next to an emergency turn around with a cop blocking it. Why don't they ever just give people the option to turn around and go back to a town until the road reopens? Instead, folks sit trapped, without bathrooms, possibly running out of gas, and then no heat, in the middle of a snow storm. Seems like a recipe for disaster. I know they do it sometimes, but not as often as you would think.
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11-27-2018, 12:30 PM #5572Rope->Dope
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I vote for food trucks and shitters at the snowplow turnaround between Silverthorne and the tunnel.
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11-29-2018, 11:36 PM #5573
Today
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11-30-2018, 12:21 AM #5574Registered User
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12-03-2018, 07:58 AM #5575
Not gonna lie...1.5 hours Silverthorne to Denver at 2pm on a Sunday after a week of big storms was pretty impressive (and welcome)
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