Sorry for posting in everyone of the 2 million posts about CU but I feel obligated as an alum. The drive is not bad, go with friends it goes fast, guarantee you makes friends with someone who owns a place in the mountains and stay the whole weekend (or week), snows in town and you will find tons of people to hit urbans with (will vill rails are poppin on snow days), ski premieres always come through and last of all the parties, girls, scene, town, d1 football and over 300 sunny days a year are a nice addition to the skiing.