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12-16-2020, 11:04 AM #101
Now on the more helpful front:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3...14290662_zpid/
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12-16-2020, 03:35 PM #102Registered User
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12-17-2020, 07:13 AM #103Registered User
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Get a place in Glenwood. It’s a lot closer to skiing.
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01-09-2021, 11:58 PM #104Registered User
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Just got a job in Durango and moving from central oregon. Wondering how parking is at some of the backcountry zones, Molas/ Coal Bank? Is it hard to get a spot, or pretty chill? Parking is utterly fucked here. Also curios how helpful having a sled is for access, I've driven 550 and skied off the pass and it seems like there's tons of access. Does having a sled improve things a lot?
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01-10-2021, 12:26 AM #105Banned
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01-10-2021, 08:47 AM #106Registered User
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01-10-2021, 11:44 AM #107
Def don't need a sled though there's plenty of people who are into it along with snowbikes. Parking along the road at select spots is pretty typical - from what I see this year is slammed. You are going to have to learn a lot about our snowpack and terrain to keep safe - be patient.
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01-10-2021, 11:52 AM #108Registered User
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When I move back to Durango, I will be very tempted to get a sled just for La Plata Canyon.
I have burned too many hours schlepping up to Madden and Bedrock.U.P.: up
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01-10-2021, 11:18 PM #109Registered User
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01-10-2021, 11:22 PM #110
We have a couple of fat ebikes and they make the road to Bedrock super fun, and it takes 10 minutes with no effort. Not as good as a sled but way more versatile and cheap and silent.
But, i can’t get them up the bedrock road...just to the LPC/Bedrock intersection and I skin from there.
OP:
Coal Bank: close to durango (35-45 mins) Parking not an issue at all. Bony this year, and most of the touring is not as straight forward as people treat it. Many folks have spend the night out there after getting lost. Main tour is Coal Creek and Deer creek.
Molas: either flat and lame or huge and exposed (Grand Turk/Sultan).
Silverton/Red Mountain: 1 hr from durango. the epicenter of all that is both awesome and horribly dangerous. I ski 80% of my time within 6 miles of Silverton. It’s not anything at all like a maritime bomber PNW snowpack, so take your time. There are lots of safe options when the snowpack is sketchy. Which it is right now.
La Plata: a few tours right from the parking lot, but the best skiing is either a long flat slog or sled skiing. (Or a fat ebike, which is a sport I’ve invented for LPC). Trailhead is only 20 mins from durango. And despite it’s popularity for XC skiing and fatbiking, there’s very few skiers back there. competition for terrain is nonexistent.
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01-11-2021, 09:11 AM #111
I had an awesome day at https://www.ski-hesperus.com/ last year, but in this drought year nothing doing,
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07-14-2021, 12:38 PM #112
Bump. Anyone here work at either Ska or it's offshoots or the Planned Parenthood in Durango?
If so, I'd love to PM you with some questions.
Thanks!
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07-14-2021, 08:20 PM #113
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07-15-2021, 05:04 PM #114
I'd say they go hand in hand for a married couple.
Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
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09-21-2021, 08:53 PM #115
Next question.
Can anyone recommend a real estate agent in SW CO? And anyone got a line of any medium term, doggo friendly rentals?
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09-21-2021, 10:08 PM #116
Can you be more specific?
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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09-21-2021, 10:33 PM #117"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
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09-22-2021, 12:13 AM #118Is 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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09-22-2021, 10:02 AM #119
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09-22-2021, 10:19 AM #120
Good luck, mang, I wish I could move back there. Maybe when I retire. But I don't know, giving up the joys of east Colfax for Durango, that doesn't sound like a good trade.
I asked a buddy, I will see if he comes up with a name. If not, I have other people to ask."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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09-22-2021, 10:36 AM #121
This thread is timely and I'm watching with interest.
As someone who was born in raised in Portland, moved to Bozeman for twenty years, and now back in the Portland area for six or seven years; I want out. For all the reasons you read in the news and the weather. Staring down another six months of gross, wet, cold, gray weather is depressing. I've fucking had it with the rain, the leaks, the moss...
Last week, I drove from PDX to Montrose for a moto rally raid and through that, caught glimpses of Montrose, Palisades, GJ, Delta, Spanish Valley (UT), and Moab, where I've spend some time. I dug it.
This would all be post-pandemic, of course.
So keep the beta coming. I'm curious about Durango, Ouray, and the rest of the Western Slope.
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09-22-2021, 10:40 AM #122
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09-22-2021, 02:43 PM #123
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09-22-2021, 03:19 PM #124
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09-22-2021, 05:16 PM #125Registered User
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