damn! wish I was there. actually seriously thinking about booking a last minute trip for saturday morning, but looking at all the travel warnings for flights and roads and such, is that a bad idea? looking at flying into denver and checking out loveland and a-basin. never been. anybody local have any thoughts - how quick do you guys clear roads and such? thanks!
youd be ok on saturday but youd be better off hittin the slopes on sunday. the storm is suppose to clear out midday saturday. up to 4' of snow in the mountains! woot woot!
I wouldn't recommend it. Roads were shit today, still shit, will remain shit till sunday. It's snowing so hard that my tracks from 9 a.m. were filled in by 11:30.
If my parking lot is any indication of the roads it's going to be a slaughterfest tomorrow on I 70. But on a plus side I'll be getting freshies! A basin anyone?
And I was right. Abasin was insane today. By 11am, all the parking lots were completely full. And I was one of the 1st ones to hit I70 when it opened, so I figured it would only get busier as the Denverites made their way up the mtn. Said fuck that and went to Loveland instead - which got absolutely KILLED with snow the last 3 days - but unlike Abasin, it was a ghost town. Was riding in 3' of mostly untrackced pow most of the day...And most importantly, never waited in a lift line.
Best day by far of the whole season. 9 deep pow runs in 2 hours and my back leg was done, so I packed it in and went home.
Sounds sick d00ds , kinda jealous but it looks like Banff might get a little too next wed... Calling for 20-30 cm... Not getting my hopes too high, but, well who am I kidding yes I am.
Abasin was pure insanity both Sat and Sun. Not 1 parking space left yesterday when I drove through on my way back from Breck yesterday at 1:30pm. I also saw the po-po towing vehicles that were parked on the shoulder of the road at Loveland too. Both places were craziness!
And how the hell can you get in 20 runs in 2 hours? When there's no lift lines, I can do 6 an hour, and that's hauling ass.
EDIT: Oh, you were riding the bunny hill...I could have hit 20 in 2 hours on the bunny hill too. lol
Loveland was the shit on Friday and Saturday. Saturday the parking lot was only half full at 1:00 because I-70 was shut down I got lucky living in Dumont, there were 5 cars sitting at the gate in Georgetown so I parked and waited 5 minutes just to watch them lift the gate on open the highway. I got there at 8am and still got front row parking. What a great late season we've had since the end of March, I can't complain one bit.
Traffic wasn't all that bad yesterday afternoon. The parking lot at Berthoud was a big of a shit show, but it was more or less because CDOT hardly plowed it. Not to mention, they didn't plow Current, 1st, or 2nd creek parking areas. So places you could park were limited to say the least. As far as for people out in the backcountry there were not very many. The snow stabilized nicely and big lines were going down, and there were still lot's of fresh lines left even on the most popular runs. Nobody in Second Creek, nothing like breaking trail in 3ft deep snow on a sunny aspect. Yeah, my legs are fried today...
The Panoramic lift was closed all during the big 2 days worth of storms, and they got 33" of snow.
They opened the lift on closing day and all of us there got fresh tracks in all that POW. Some sick sick runs.... By far the best cloud runs all season for me, and on closing day. Good times
Racing is for people in spandex nut huggers. Besides it's spring time at the basin I'm going jibbing.
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