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Csu is fine if you go on the weekdays and push through all the way to copper or steamboat. It’s a haul but worth it.
 
topic:yaboibarrywhite said:
I don't believe anyone at CSU skis anymore they just get stuck in I70 traffic. Wyo better
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Idk man. I leave campus at 6 and I’m at Eldora by 7:45. No traffic until the resort entrance, stoke off the charts, sick park and no lines. As an east coaster I couldn’t ask for more. Complaining about I-70 traffic is not a new or exciting opinion.
 
14381866:skierman_jack said:
Idk man. I leave campus at 6 and I’m at Eldora by 7:45. No traffic until the resort entrance, stoke off the charts, sick park and no lines. As an east coaster I couldn’t ask for more. Complaining about I-70 traffic is not a new or exciting opinion.
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how much you spending on gas though?
 
i70 traffic? Don't you mean i25 traffic? lol.

Ft. Collins is filled only with backcountry skiers. Aint nobody gonna drive to the Front Range to ski with a bunch of kooks when you have RMNP and Cameron Pass far closer and without the mad traffic. Might as well just drive to Steamboat rather than dealing with the i70 nonsense. Will probably take you the same amount of time...
 
14381866:skierman_jack said:
Idk man. I leave campus at 6 and I’m at Eldora by 7:45. No traffic until the resort entrance, stoke off the charts, sick park and no lines. As an east coaster I couldn’t ask for more. Complaining about I-70 traffic is not a new or exciting opinion.
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Yup this is the way. People in CO bitch about Eldora because a) they suck at skiing despite thinking they are great or b) have not driven 4 hours to ski in the rain one day and -20 pure ice the next day on the east coast for seasons on end. Also the drive is beautiful. It only gets better too, March / April the wind dies down, sun stays out longer, slopes are all filled in, its nice.
 
I bitch about I-70 traffic but then remember the closest resort growing up was 4 hours away with awful conditions. I was happy as a pig in shit then too.

I used to laugh at I-70 traffic going the opposite way when I lived in western Colorado. Now I’m in it ?
 
This. And the backcountry is ?

14382031:DingoSean said:
i70 traffic? Don't you mean i25 traffic? lol.

Ft. Collins is filled only with backcountry skiers. Aint nobody gonna drive to the Front Range to ski with a bunch of kooks when you have RMNP and Cameron Pass far closer and without the mad traffic. Might as well just drive to Steamboat rather than dealing with the i70 nonsense. Will probably take you the same amount of time...
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Wyoming seems way better than csu. They get literally all of the state's educational funding. But fort collins is objectively better than laramie. If you're driving from foco to i-70 resorts, you're a fucking moron. Or if you take i-25. Take 287 to longmont, then go to eldora, its the only smart option. Eldora's not too bad at all, except the parking is atrocious and the visibility often sucks. Also there's the large number of deaths...

Or you could just stop caring about skiing and focus on party life like most of my ski friends who went to csu
 
14382119:ReturnToMonkey said:
Wyoming seems way better than csu. They get literally all of the state's educational funding. But fort collins is objectively better than laramie. If you're driving from foco to i-70 resorts, you're a fucking moron. Or if you take i-25. Take 287 to longmont, then go to eldora, its the only smart option. Eldora's not too bad at all, except the parking is atrocious and the visibility often sucks. Also there's the large number of deaths...

Or you could just stop caring about skiing and focus on party life like most of my ski friends who went to csu
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Eldora's parking lot has been filling up before 8am though... Like, there were idiots trying to ram the parking attendants over it the other week...

Laramie at least has an hour shorter trip to Steamboat, so it wins in that situation for sure. It also has Snowy Range ski area like 30 mins out of town - not the most thrilling place in the world so I understand, but also its a lot closer lift access than anything FoCo has so that's pretty cool. (someone from ft collins could get there in an hour 1/2 i guess? since its only like an hour to laramie?)

Laramie as a town, probably not as cool as Ft. Collins, but Its still a college town, and I guess if you're focused on classes, and skiing on your off-days, it's also a pretty good spot to be as a skier.
 
14382328:Biffbarf said:
Does snowy range have a good park? I remember some talk about it in the last few years here on NS. Hill's pretty meh otherwise imo
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I mean it's half the price of an Epic pass and its 30 mins out of town. I'd imagine a midweek powder day there would be pretty sweet even if the terrain isn't anything wild.

Hell, it's not like places such as Copper or Keystone are anything impressive in terms of terrain anyway... Sure they have sick parks, but thats it.
 
14382336:DingoSean said:
I mean it's half the price of an Epic pass and its 30 mins out of town. I'd imagine a midweek powder day there would be pretty sweet even if the terrain isn't anything wild.

Hell, it's not like places such as Copper or Keystone are anything impressive in terms of terrain anyway... Sure they have sick parks, but thats it.
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I get it, I use to ski moose mtn in fairbanks and I lived ~20mins away and even though it wasn't anything special it was a ton of fun and I'd get a ton of days in. That said I'd never go out of my way to go to school at UAF for the skiing lol. Eldora, loveland, and snow range are similar distance from fort collins and I can't think of anyone I know it ft collins that has a snowy range pass
 
14382314:DingoSean said:
Eldora's parking lot has been filling up before 8am though... Like, there were idiots trying to ram the parking attendants over it the other week...

Laramie at least has an hour shorter trip to Steamboat, so it wins in that situation for sure. It also has Snowy Range ski area like 30 mins out of town - not the most thrilling place in the world so I understand, but also its a lot closer lift access than anything FoCo has so that's pretty cool. (someone from ft collins could get there in an hour 1/2 i guess? since its only like an hour to laramie?)

Laramie as a town, probably not as cool as Ft. Collins, but Its still a college town, and I guess if you're focused on classes, and skiing on your off-days, it's also a pretty good spot to be as a skier.
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Oh yeah facts. Fort Collins is great, Laramie is also pretty good. Neither sucks by any means
 
14382336:DingoSean said:
I mean it's half the price of an Epic pass and its 30 mins out of town. I'd imagine a midweek powder day there would be pretty sweet even if the terrain isn't anything wild.

Hell, it's not like places such as Copper or Keystone are anything impressive in terms of terrain anyway... Sure they have sick parks, but thats it.
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Copper is actually a fun mountain. Especially since they opened the Tucker Mountain terrain
 
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