Eldora appreciation post

skierman_jack

skierman_jack

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I moved out to CSU to go to school after being a life long east coaster. After skiing Copper, WP, Breck, and keystone I’ve found myself being a regular user of the slopes at Eldora. It’s funny because I’m realizing there’s a lot of people who are not on board with Eldora so lemme make my case

who am I: I am a park rat college student who is just lookin for a sick park and a good vibe. And Eldora delivers. The energy there is so on point being a small rad little ski area. Nothing is fancy, the parking is dicey and icy, and most of the lifts are painfully slow. And that’s what I love about it. It’s all about the skiing really. And the Woodward instillation there obviously makes sick parks. Am I going to Eldora after a 16 inch sky falling? No. But when I’m looking to have a good time for an afternoon and maybe learn a trick or two I honestly wouldn’t be anywhere else.

feel free to debate me
 
topic:skierman_jack said:
I moved out to CSU to go to school after being a life long east coaster. After skiing Copper, WP, Breck, and keystone I’ve found myself being a regular user of the slopes at Eldora. It’s funny because I’m realizing there’s a lot of people who are not on board with Eldora so lemme make my case

who am I: I am a park rat college student who is just lookin for a sick park and a good vibe. And Eldora delivers. The energy there is so on point being a small rad little ski area. Nothing is fancy, the parking is dicey and icy, and most of the lifts are painfully slow. And that’s what I love about it. It’s all about the skiing really. And the Woodward instillation there obviously makes sick parks. Am I going to Eldora after a 16 inch sky falling? No. But when I’m looking to have a good time for an afternoon and maybe learn a trick or two I honestly wouldn’t be anywhere else.

feel free to debate me
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I'm not, small local ski areas are the best. Even if they don't have the deepest snow, or the gnarliest terrain, the vibe at them is unbeatable, and that makes all the difference. It's what skiing is really about.
 
I’ve said this a million times. Eldora is good for beginners and it’s good for people who are actually good skiers and want to become better skiers. Do you enjoy some selection of rails, jumps, high angle carves, and torpedoing moguls? Do you like parking at the base, driving through a non traffic filled canyon, and small mountain vibes? If so eldora is great.

Most people who *think* they are good skiers are not actually so there’s nothing fun at eldora. If you want to backseat noodle down “a sick chute bro” in nice conditions for an ego boost then yea it’s not gonna be fun.
 
Eldora is fun, some good gully tree skiing, park is actually pretty fun and usually not too crowded. I’ll be there Monday if anyones around
 
“You gotta go to Eldora, me and the boys load up in my buddy Jeremy’s Bimmer and get there from Boulder in about 5 minutes. You ever been to Boulder bro? It’s fucking sick dude. We mack on chicks all over town with and then we head up to Eldora and mack on chicks there too. Ever heard the chainsmokers bro? They’re the sickest band ever, and they love Boulder.

Is your prude wife not into macking on chicks? Well you’re in luck, since Eldora has the steepest, deepest, raddest, sickest terrain found anywhere in this fucking galaxy you can ditch your lame wife in a tree well and go mack on chicks until she swims her way out of there. Or doesn’t, know what I’m sayin?

Either way playboy hit me up when you come to Mecca and I’ll set you up with some fire K ya dig? You’ll be macking all day with that fat sack of K”
 
Eldora was my go-to a couple seasons ago specifically because there was never any traffic getting there. I think that's why the vibes are so good, or at least why I'm always in a good mood when I get there. The grind of I70 every weekend will wear on you.
 
“You gotta go to Bopper, me and the boys load up in my buddy NateDawgs Volvo and get there from LeadVegas in about 5 minutes. You ever been to LeadVegas bro? It’s fucking sick dude. We mack on chicks all over town with and then we head up to Bopper and mack on chicks there too. Ever heard the chainsmokers bro? They’re the sickest band ever, and they love LeadVegas.

Is your prude wife not into macking on chicks? Well you’re in luck, since Bopper has the steepest, deepest, raddest, sickest terrain found anywhere in this fucking galaxy you can ditch your lame wife in Frisco and go mack on chicks at Mulligans until she hitchhikes her way out of there. Or doesn’t, know what I’m sayin?

Either way playboy hit me up when you come to Bopper and I’ll set you up with some fire edibles ya dig? You’ll be macking all day with that fat sack of edibles”
 
I love Eldora I’m from Denver originally and would go there most times.

im in Bozeman now and don’t get me wrong, the terrain is fuckin nuts here. But I wish there was a small resort that just focused on park here, maybe in Hyalite somewhere
 
I ski Eldora a fair amount early and late season because it is so close. It is great. The park goes through phases though. It is really good, then strange. Eldora just builds weird stuff sometimes. Just put in some jumps and tubes, stop turning around waterfalls so they step up. I saw like one person successfully hit that thing for the month it was there. But this year in general the park has been much better. I see an upwards trend with the Eldora park which is exciting. I believe that in a few years the park will be amazing, all the time. The mountain safety people need to chill though. They threaten to pull my pass multiple times a day. I got in trouble for boot skiing on a Tuesday on an open run. How is that not allowed? Supposedly I am "on their list" now. Over all I am lucky to have a little resort so close and I still love skiing there, these are just things that they have to work on.
 
The mountain safety stuff is because multiple people die there every year in collisions with other people or hitting trees.

14382687:goatmaster said:
I ski Eldora a fair amount early and late season because it is so close. It is great. The park goes through phases though. It is really good, then strange. Eldora just builds weird stuff sometimes. Just put in some jumps and tubes, stop turning around waterfalls so they step up. I saw like one person successfully hit that thing for the month it was there. But this year in general the park has been much better. I see an upwards trend with the Eldora park which is exciting. I believe that in a few years the park will be amazing, all the time. The mountain safety people need to chill though. They threaten to pull my pass multiple times a day. I got in trouble for boot skiing on a Tuesday on an open run. How is that not allowed? Supposedly I am "on their list" now. Over all I am lucky to have a little resort so close and I still love skiing there, these are just things that they have to work on.
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Love hitting Eldora! Some legitimately great terrain for a small resort. Gotten more days there than any other resort the last 2 seasons, getting laps in before class can't be beaten it's still so surreal to me.
 
14382591:ericforman said:
Most people who *think* they are good skiers are not actually so there’s nothing fun at eldora. If you want to backseat noodle down “a sick chute bro” in nice conditions for an ego boost then yea it’s not gonna be fun.
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this. there is good skiing at literally any resort in colorado. people who say they don’t like certain resorts because the skiing sucks are the same people who brag about being able to ski blacks. If you have to tell me you can ski a black, then I definitely don’t want to ski with you.
 
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