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The Colorado Conditions, Meet ups and General Talk Thread

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#1 ·
I know it's early, but damn, we need some snow.

Colorado | OpenSnow

That shit looks like a repeat of last season.
 
#6,954 ·
I hear you (about MT Biking) but it pays to be patient. I went out on the MTB on Wednesday and the trails were wet and muddy once I got higher on the mountain. I turned around cuz I ^%$#@ hate mud and it trashes your bike (not to mention the trails). There were so many ruts from mountain bike tires, and horse hoofs.

The snow is still good and you gotta get it while you can..
It also IMO makes it easier to sit out the early season $h!tshow when everyone is so anxious to get on snow, but there is only the WROD..
 
#6,956 ·
I've basically been ready for offroading/camping/hiking season to start for the last two weeks. Just installed a new suspension on my rig and I've been itching to get it out on the trails. That said, I'm completely okay with snowboarding this weekend. I'm hoping people have given up on snowsports for the year and traffic won't be bad tomorrow.
 
#6,968 ·
Abasin was freakin awesome this past weekend!



P.S. I've been talking with AgingPunk and he has been banned and not sure why. He can't access the site to get in contact with Donutz or Kill so I sent a message for him to Donutz. If you guys know of a better way to bring it to their attention I'd appreciate it.
 
#6,981 ·
I know we had a discussion on the new Rocky Flats development projects awhile back and figured I'd share this interesting recent article.

Rogue Agent | 5280

Interesting excerpts:

Smith, who retired from the EPA in 2002, lives in Golden. He says he believes the refuge is safe. However, he adds, “Based on some of the things we saw out there, there were areas where they had stuff buried for years.” And when I asked him if he would buy a house in the Candelas development near Rocky Flats, his response was: “Not now, not ever. I think people are nuts buying downwind.”

Michael Ketterer, who came to Denver in 2013 to chair the Metropolitan State University of Denver chemistry department, specializes in plutonium-isotope tracing. Ketterer has tested soil near Rocky Flats—including the Indiana Street corridor east of the refuge—and found elevated levels of plutonium compared with other locations he’s sampled in the continental United States. “There’s no other way to look at it,” Ketterer says. “Numbers don’t lie. There is a global background of plutonium, which everybody needs to take into account—but the baseline levels are far exceeded in the immediate vicinity of Rocky Flats. And we know with absolute certainty that it is from Rocky Flats.”

Folks, if you're looking to move to Colorado, DO NOT BUY ON ROCKY FLATS! For god's sake don't do it. It's a fucking superfund site. Not only that, but I'd tell you the same thing if it wasn't. It's windy as hell 80% of the time and downright stupid wind more often than you'd think. There's a reason there's a wind energy research facility on the north side of Rocky Flats. It's a miserable place. Just don't do it. Even if you're not worried about the ground glowing in the dark, don't do it because of the insane wind and ground blizzards in the winter.
 
#6,983 ·
It's windy as hell 80% of the time and downright stupid wind more often than you'd think. There's a reason there's a wind energy research facility on the north side of Rocky Flats. It's a miserable place. Just don't do it. Even if you're not worried about the ground glowing in the dark, don't do it because of the insane wind and ground blizzards in the winter.
When I lived in Boulder in the early 90's a CU art student put up an art project on billboards out there, nuclear apocalypse warning of sorts. High winds destroyed the project pretty damn quick!
 
#6,986 ·
"The 6,240-acre Rocky Flats Plant (USDOE) site is located about 16 miles northwest of Denver and 10 miles south of Boulder, Colorado. The Rocky Flats Plant operated from 1952 until 1989 as part of the United States’ nationwide nuclear weapons complex. The facility manufactured trigger mechanisms for nuclear weapons from various radioactive and hazardous materials. Manufacturing activities, accidental industrial fires and spills, support activities, and waste management practices contaminated soil, sediment, groundwater and surface water with hazardous chemicals and radioactive constituents." -EPA.GOV



That's enough for me to stay far away.
 
#6,987 ·
and here is one of the comments from a reader:

"My aunt worked at Rocky Flats for 13 years. She had 3 kinds of breast cancer and survived for 13 years. Then, was diagnosed with lung cancer that moved to her bones, although I still think it started in her bones. At any rate, she left this Earth in Nov 2014.."
 
#6,988 ·
today was brutal, left home at about 3:00 am to drive to trailhead.. brutal winds on the mountain (50 mph sustained with blowing snow), got blown off the slopes, a summit was not possible.

Made it to about 13,500' when we decided to turn around. very hard to transition to ride mode in those winds...

descent started in sastrugi then we did find some wind blown powder.
 
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