Cheap skiing in Colorado

Sveetski

Sveetski

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First post in years. Will be in Denver late Feb and want to fulfil my teenage dream of skiing the big resorts Vale Breckenridge and others. It's my understanding that the epic pass allows you do ski different resorts each day but it's very pricey. The exchange rate in the UK isn't helping atm. Any advice on a cheap way to either ski some of the big resorts or any smaller resorts that are better value.

Sorry if this in the wrong forum or I'm breaking rules.

Hope this place is still as awesome as it used to be
 
13878480:tyler1719 said:
Ski Loveland but don't bring any friends!
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Ski Loveland and bring as many people as you want and don't listen to this shit head.

I know it's a joke but this joke is really stupid. It's not like bringing a couple friends skiing is going to turn Loveland into Breck or Vail anytime soon. Even on aggregate, everyone who skis Loveland could bring a +1 and it'd still be a fraction of the crowds that VR gets.
 
13878539:sendotologist said:
Ski Loveland and bring as many people as you want and don't listen to this shit head.

I know it's a joke but this joke is really stupid. It's not like bringing a couple friends skiing is going to turn Loveland into Breck or Vail anytime soon. Even on aggregate, everyone who skis Loveland could bring a +1 and it'd still be a fraction of the crowds that VR gets.
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Apparently this went wayy over your head

**This post was edited on Jan 10th 2018 at 10:15:52pm
 
Go stay in Salida. Then go ski monarch Mountain. After skiing there go to gunnison and ski crest butte. Then continue the route and hit powderhorn. Then you’ll be on I 70 and you can hit as many major resorts off that while heading to Denver.

Or you go south after gunnison and hit telluride, Silverton and maybe go towards Durango and hit everything down there. Southwest Colorado is pretty out there.
 
ARAPAHOE BASIN.

350 gets you a 6 month season, sick terrain, the best single chairlift not in Silverton, and a few days for free at Taos.

and if loveland pass is open, you skip all that tunnel bullshit.

Or you can do Monarch like already has been said (I have a pass there too, just never skied it yet though because shit snow... worth it if you're not into the i70 mess)
 
13879189:DingoSean said:
ARAPAHOE BASIN.

350 gets you a 6 month season, sick terrain, the best single chairlift not in Silverton, and a few days for free at Taos.

and if loveland pass is open, you skip all that tunnel bullshit.

Or you can do Monarch like already has been said (I have a pass there too, just never skied it yet though because shit snow... worth it if you're not into the i70 mess)
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I never made it to Monarch but I could def get down with living in CB at some point. Probably the only place in CO I'd really want to move to, at least in the mtns.
 
13879194:theabortionator said:
I never made it to Monarch but I could def get down with living in CB at some point. Probably the only place in CO I'd really want to move to, at least in the mtns.
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Cbutte is OVER..
 
13879285:sendotologist said:
Please elaborate.
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being taken over by shitty tourists buying up all the homes and either airBnBing them or leaving them vacant for 51 weeks a year.... like anywhere, it's days are numbered.
 
13879290:DingoSean said:
being taken over by shitty tourists buying up all the homes and either airBnBing them or leaving them vacant for 51 weeks a year.... like anywhere, it's days are numbered.
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What I figured but still had to ask. All this "Last great Colorado ski town" bullshit is ironically making CB not as great of a ski town.
 
or you can just be real cheap, go backcountry exclusively, solo, on your own, and die real fast because of layers of actual fucking ball bearings in the snow.

just live on the edge and flip the finger at the white reaper the rest of your days.
 
13878663:50Kal said:
Go stay in Salida. Then go ski monarch Mountain. After skiing there go to gunnison and ski crest butte. Then continue the route and hit powderhorn. Then you’ll be on I 70 and you can hit as many major resorts off that while heading to Denver.

Or you go south after gunnison and hit telluride, Silverton and maybe go towards Durango and hit everything down there. Southwest Colorado is pretty out there.
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Yo what this guy said. I ski monarch for $65 a day. Yeah its a smaller resort but you can get endless laps in. Ive never waited in a lift line there. The vibe is a lot more chill and they aren't owned by a big corp. Theres no shops/hotels at the bottom of the mountain, and no rich tourists. After skiing Monarch its tough going back to the big resorts on I70.
 
A Basin and loveland are much more fun resorts not as "resort like" but terrain wise so much more fun. Breck has some cool lines off the top but its so low tide now they aren't good at all. Summit county could have the most over rated skiing i've ever seen in my life. Outside of the terrain parks which are some of the best in the world...the resorts on the epic pass (in my opinion outside of loveland and abasin) are so disappointingly boring. The type of person who comes here for a ski vacation isn't the same type of skier who goes to jackson, squaw, whistler, etc.

That being said if you're coming here you'll have fun regardless from the UK
 
Thanks for all the info. Looking to go in about 2 weeks. What are conditions like for this time of year good, bad or average?
 
13884829:Sveetski said:
Thanks for all the info. Looking to go in about 2 weeks. What are conditions like for this time of year good, bad or average?
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Colorado is having a below average season this year. That being said everyone has full parks up this time of the year. So if looking for some park shredding it will be money.
 
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