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Thread: OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
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01-18-2020, 07:01 AM #7601
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01-18-2020, 08:36 AM #7602Registered User
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If you were stuck on I70 yesterday, you need to get your head checked. Everyone saw this shit coming.
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01-18-2020, 08:43 AM #7603
It’s impossible to get to Winter Park. I particularly liked the semi in the middle of the first switchback up that stopped without pulling over to put chains on.
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01-18-2020, 09:04 AM #7604
It took 6 hours for thousands of people to go 70 miles, to ski 3” of new snow. Epikonic!
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01-18-2020, 02:15 PM #7605
Once again I’ll ask - how do people go skiing with young kids? Still 1:45 to Loveland at 1:15pm Saturday afternoon.... What a joke.
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01-18-2020, 02:48 PM #7606
Late shift at WP or Eldora (no tunnel) have dinner or movie if there's traffic. Random hotels/friends. Occasionally I'll call them in sick to school. They have 12 days so far, tomorrow will be 13, and we have managed to avoid traffic for the most part.
Also, dad stops in the trees a lot. So I dont care as long as they are having fun.the drugs made me realize it's not about the drugs
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01-18-2020, 03:08 PM #7607
”dad stops in the trees a lot", lol.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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01-18-2020, 05:16 PM #7608
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
Last edited by The SnowShow; 01-18-2020 at 05:50 PM.
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01-18-2020, 05:35 PM #7609
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
I was fully ready to do battle today after what the roads looked like last night. I left my place at 5:15 am since I was sketched out by what traffic looked like last night and figured many bailed and decided to come this am.
I was making good time, traffic was fine so I stopped at Carl’s JR to get some breakfast food. I was too early and they were not open. Gah!
Make it to the Utah Junction lot at 6:45 and read a book. I was on the Challenger chair at 8:27. I hardly waited in line. Skied my ass of until 12:45. Pulled out of the lot at 12:55 and was home at 2:18. I hardly waited in line today, a holiday weekend with a bit of new snow. I didn’t mess with Pano, super gauge or the WP side once. Eagle Wind got a line, but I just went the back way and made pairs triples and waited about four chairs to join a group.
I had a fantastic day. However, my wife forgot to get the steak out of the freezer and we have company coming. I have that to deal with.
I suppose if you left the front range “early” at 6:15 am and had to always ride a lift all day with your three intermediate buddies and definitely had to have the Pano goods and then because you stood in lines a ton of the time, which made you not leave till 3:15 today and now you are stuck in what’s relatively moderate traffic you might not think today was not too awesome. HOWEVER, if you were on your game and snapped a pic or two and posted it to Social media and snagged 16 likes from your friends and family from not Colorado you just might be feeling good about yourself and it was all worth it.
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01-18-2020, 05:40 PM #7610
16 likes?! Slow down girlfriend!
Skiing is always fun. Driving isn't
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01-19-2020, 01:27 AM #7611
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01-19-2020, 06:12 AM #7612Registered User
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wolfelot its just further evidence of how i do not understand the crowds one bit anymore. copper was over 16,000 people yesterday and i heard lift lines weren't even that bad and that was from friends riding intermediate trails. I have been there on like 12,000 people days when lift lines have seemed unbearable. then there are the fresh snow days where traffic is just slammed around silverthorne all afternoon, like why aren't you on the hill? i don't understand what people do around here! I'm rambling but this shit just makes no sense.
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01-19-2020, 08:53 AM #7613
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
How does one figure out or hear of estimates of how many people are on the mtn on any given day. Do employees know and it filters out?
Someone asked how parents do it with small kids and the roads. It’s not easy and you really need to think ahead. Staying up here is much better. I wasn’t scorned yesterday and felt up to it so I brought my 4-year-old daughter to WP. I got her up an hour early and she is currently in great spirits. I’m sitting in my car by the Cabriolet now and will be gone by noon. Left my house at 6:01 and made it in 1:35. My guess of Sunday’s being a bit better as far as departure times just barely panned out. 10 min later and I bet I’d be regretting this. Hopefully a pre-12:00 return will be fine.
PM me if you have small kids and are skiing at WP today.
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01-19-2020, 08:56 AM #7614Registered User
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My friend is the manager of lift ops at copper and I used to work there
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01-19-2020, 08:59 AM #7615Registered User
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Pretty much. Heard today is supposed to be 16K at Copper, biggest ever by 1K. I'm guessing that the lifelines are mitigated by the two new lifts installed last year, plus the Super B. I mean, what other resort has 3 high speed 6 packs from the base? If you have big lift lines with that setup, the hill has gotta be crazy. Copper is a good mountain though, really spreads skiers out.
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01-19-2020, 10:06 AM #7616
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
Current traffic into Copper: red / maroon line from Officer’s Gulch to parking lot. That’s gotta suck. Is Copper becoming the new Breck?
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01-19-2020, 10:14 AM #7617Registered User
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^^^ yes
everyone thinks they have it figured out breck is a zoo so you goto copper or wp
You leave friday afternoon instead of Saturday morning
Eldora used to be a peaceful place to ski on the weekends 20 years ago. ..........
Problem is everyone is doing the same thing or thinks they have it figured out
the good thing is it's not about skiing anymore, its about going to the mountains hanging out posing and pretending to ski but mostly buying expesive shitty food and drinks
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01-19-2020, 10:41 AM #7618Registered User
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01-19-2020, 10:41 AM #7619
Jeezus. Crested Butte had 3,400 yesterday. 16K, fuck that, even with more lifts.
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01-19-2020, 01:42 PM #7620
I’m sure 15k were at Center Village and American Flyer lift. Back Bowls and Tucker are empty I’m sure.
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01-19-2020, 02:00 PM #7621Registered User
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yeah so like next season everyone buys a basin passes because they hear about how quiet and fun it is this season
then they look around and wonder why its such a shit show 20-21
like they are the only people knew it was mellow, those days are over thanks to the internet
I remember calling the snow phone when I got here, no internet no snow stake web cams
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01-19-2020, 04:11 PM #7622
I hear Vail isn’t crowded anymore so there’s that.
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01-19-2020, 07:52 PM #7623
Went by at least 100 cars trucks in the ditch from Iowa to Lincoln, NE but made it to Kearney mostly on time. Saturday afternoon at 230 ish it was still stop and go 30 mph from Idaho Springs to the tunnel.
Rolled into Copper this morning at 8:10 in the Ikonic Midwestern Family Gaper Wagon with zero I70 hassle. Took about 15 minutes to get parked...no big deal. Zero Superbee line early. Maybe 10 minute lines on Tucker. We did a bunch of killer laps up high. Snow was really good. If someone went and didn't have fun at Copper today it is there fault.
I dunno. You guys make Colorado sound worse than it is. Hardest part is deciding on what ski to ski when it is soft up high and hard down low. But fuck that road. For sure.
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01-19-2020, 09:24 PM #7624
^^ this is the bitch thread, you’re doing it wrong!!!
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01-20-2020, 06:31 AM #7625Registered User
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