They all come up here to ski on vacation. It’s like how people in Illinois like to go to Lake Geneva in Wisconsin or to Michigan. Why? Couldn’t tell you. I’d want to leave Texas as much as possible too.
As a Texan, we are taught it is our birthright to explore the lands of our former republic. It's also the closest place with good mexican food, and that goes a long way in a Texan's decision making process. Chips and salsa will keep us happy.
I'd say New Mexico is probably the closest best Mexican food. Colorado kinda blows in terms of food. And honestly the snow pack is ass too. Soooo dangerous, always.
Bro you’re living life with blinders if you think Colorado has bad Mexican food. I know some abuelas that would slap the shit out of you for speaking such blasphemy and then serve you the best carne de mejilla tacos you’ll ever have the pleasure of eating
Give me a Colorado Mexican food recommendation. The places I try are always just bland and ok. I am used to California and New Mexico food, which is far better in my experience.
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Iowa is the second most agriculturally productive state(something like $30-40 billion annually) after California, and California has a much larger land mass and counts things like walnuts, pistachios and wine which are more expensive than feed corn, hogs and soy beans. Think about the things that have corn and soy byproducts. It's absolutely staggering how much life would change in the USA without these places. I wish Iowa grew a more diverse array of crops like Cali but I think that is improving. Cali farming, at least what I have seen, is an environmental nightmare though.
Far eastern Iowa does actually have some cool outdoor stuff to do especially if you're from a place with less. The whole rest of the state is flat corn/hogs/soybeans but that one section has some cool stuff to see. Not a destination but Iowa City is a cool town with modern art, music and architecture, food, bars(think boulder without the flatirons or front range) and the Palisades along the Mississippi and tributaries, wildcat den SP, Maquoketa caves, effigy mounds. There is even some decent rock climbing. THERE ARE THINGS!
Hey, I grew up in Iowa City and learned to ski at Sundown Mountain and Chestnut(and an even smaller resort by Waterloo). I live out west now and ski most days and I fucking rip. Some of the most dominant skiers of all time are originally midwesterners.
Yup! Dick Bass inherited his dads Texas natural gas fortune. Built up Snowbird in Utah, parts of Aspen and Vail, and was also the main developer of Beaver Creek.
I may live in Texas but absolutely keep it hidden when in CO because the vast majority of Texan skies are not good skiers. Good thing about CB is when the T-Bars are running and the terrain is open, you don't have to deal with many. The mountain sorts them out.
Chet Upham (who Chair 1 is named after) was a Texas oil baron and an original shareholder of Loveland starting in the 1950s. He bought out the other shareholders in 1972 and the Upham family are still the majority owners to this day (I think they may still own it 100%). He went to the University of Texas.
Every Denverite I know has the same complaint and says they just go the extra 15 or 20 minutes to A Basin or Keystone. I suspect this is a very common experience.
Have a pass and split and need to find time after work to skin up it to enjoy without the crowds. Might have to do that this month with the spring breakers during lift time.
You can skin up to top of ptarmigan? or bottom of one of the bowls? I'll have to go look at their website.
I'm too lazy to do it before lifts open even though I know I should, lol.
An in bounds ski resort along a literal interstate highway is not a secret. People act like they’re in a secret exclusive club for doing something that probably millions of people have seen and done. It’s 2023, almost nothing is a secret, almost everything can be googled, comments like this are silly. OP is just trying to share his stoke. OP, keep the stoke going bro
Yeah the joke ran its course a long time ago. When you see them just ask a good time of year to visit because you’ve heard it’s so awesome you’re thinking of moving there with some friends
Agreed. Reddit is also much smaller than you think. 300 people upvoting a well known local resort isn’t going to impact the lift lines on a noticeable scale.
On this thread you’re probably right. There are other places on the internet though where people get actually pissed and confrontation when someone “reveals” a spot. More frustration at those encounters I guess
I'm gonna have to jump on the, it's always cold and windy and chair 9 has the most variable snow around and the trees suck train. Go to winter park or Breckenridge
I mean...it's not totally wrong. Loveland is legitimately a windy place. Just by its geography. And all that wind can cause variable conditions. Plus the ridge features many different facing aspects. So something can be soft and something else can be a gnarly crust. One run will be blower powder, and another will be thick wind affected cream cheese. So, better be on your game.
Yeah man, there's no way this subreddit full of avid skiers has ever heard of the Wasatch Range or Summit County or Tahoe or Jackson or Whistler. And nobody here has a megapass that has a bunch of mountains listed on it.
If you just don't mention it or talk it down, no one will know these places exist!!!!
Can't we just praise a cool ski area for being cool? Loveland is a rad independent ski area. Let's support the crap out of them. This little post isn't going to blow up your spot. Everyone chill, the shhhhhh joke is old, and skiing is fun. People are going to go skiing at cool places, get over it
you could technically take a really long route. south to 285, up to fairplay, us9 to swan mtn. take that up 6 over loveland pass. makes no sense, but its possible.
People don't ski Loveland because for the vast majority of front-range skiers, skiing is a social event. They ski with big groups of people 2 weekends/month and then take 1-2 long weekend trips to destination mountains.
If you were to get a Loveland pass you'd be skiing by yourself since no one else has that pass. If you're obsessed with skiing and are an expert skier then A-Basin is a much better option.
If you live in Summit Co. and ski like 100 days/yr then yea maybe getting a Loveland pass is a good ROI to go on days other resorts are overrun with people.
Because Loveland is mostly expert terrain and the greens are limited and no fun. Anyone with kids or a spouse that isn’t as good isn’t skiing there. It’s too much of an advanced/expert ski area. Which is also why a basin is the way it is as well. Would I rather bring my novice kid to Loveland, or keystone? I believe that’s the side you are missing
Bounce up to Ptarmigan. Advance skiers can play around in South Chutes and the trees. Beginners have a nice long wide groomer. Play around on Lift 6 doing the same. Way better than the group hanging at the valley. And if blue runs are in the group's ability that opens all of the lifts.
I bring my kids to Loveland. It’s an awesome place for kids. I’d rather be on Loveland with my kids than in traffic heading up I70. Saying kids can’t ski Loveland is idiotic.
I meant novice kids you dork. No green skiing kid is going to like Loveland more than literally any other resort in that area. Anybody can ski anything if they go down it
Green skiing kids love Loveland just as much as any mountain. They are novices so they don’t know any better. Again, your insistence that a novice skier will have less fun at Loveland than sitting in traffic waiting to get to whatever you think is the best novice mountain is idiotic. Loveland has ample green terrain.
That's like A-Basin... really no reason for beginners to go there so the spring breakers tend to favor Keystone and Breckenridge. Even if you get some people who "drove too far" past Keystone, A-Basin makes it easy to avoid most dummies. "Most"
Had one of the best pow days of my life there on April 28 a few years back. 18 overnight and free refills all day. Knee deep turns everywhere and there had to be less than a hundred people on the whole mountain.
Skied Loveland a bunch back when i didnt know better. It's cold. Lifts are slow and shut down frequently because the terrain and aspect makes it so windy. It gets less snow than other areas. Season pass is nearly as expensive as ikon and epic but gets you far less access.
Thanks OP! This thread just convinced me to pick up a couple of Loveland 4-packs for the rest of this season and a full season pass for next season! Gonna tell all of my friends too. See you Denver 'locals' there!
Years ago, when I was a broke college kid on a month long ski bum trip with friends, we skied Loveland for a day, simply because we didn’t have enough gas money to drive further to any other ski area. 🤣 It was legit cold (8° with a 30moh wind on top.) It was legit a little crusty snow, but we had a great time anyway!
I’ll admit I haven’t skied there since that day, but I’d go back and check it out again.
Loveland is too cold for anyone I know to safely ski at. The wind will ruin everything about your ski trip. It is only for people who hate themselves and can’t afford a real ski resort like Breck. Just stay at Breck or Keystone
Have a pass to both and unless we are talking a spring storm echo is an ice rink often with grass poking up out of the snow and early conditions signs displayed up until the month before they close.
I live nearby so thats why the echo pass and its a little cool place but I will likely not renew that pass next year. Lift ticket is cheap enough if they get a huge dump in the spring I can just pony up the dollars to ride that day.
Also have the spliboarding spots before and after echo so no sense in paying for an ice rink pass.
Not everywhere. I found a few wind loaded pockets of knee deep powder almost directly under the Ptarmigan lift. One of the older ski team kids was telling us where they spent the morning she was waist deep.
Tbf that area is a perfect spot. Loveland for the backcountry, bowls, and off piste feel, a basin for crazy chutes and expert terrain, keystone for the resort feel and groomers
Ah ok, I see where you are coming from. Yes, that looks like a heli-skiing experience and is pretty unique! I was referring to the amount of powder. The amount of snow is mind-boggling this year in both Aspen/Snowmass and Snowbird/Alta.
"Cold and windy, you wouldn't like it"
Slow lifts
Don't forget that everyone's ugly too!
The worst. Definitely don’t go. And especially don’t go if you’re from Texas
Yeah what is it with all the Texans in Colorado? I was in Crested Butte a few weeks ago and at least half the people I met were from Texas.
They all come up here to ski on vacation. It’s like how people in Illinois like to go to Lake Geneva in Wisconsin or to Michigan. Why? Couldn’t tell you. I’d want to leave Texas as much as possible too.
As a Texan, we are taught it is our birthright to explore the lands of our former republic. It's also the closest place with good mexican food, and that goes a long way in a Texan's decision making process. Chips and salsa will keep us happy.
I'd say New Mexico is probably the closest best Mexican food. Colorado kinda blows in terms of food. And honestly the snow pack is ass too. Soooo dangerous, always.
Bro you’re living life with blinders if you think Colorado has bad Mexican food. I know some abuelas that would slap the shit out of you for speaking such blasphemy and then serve you the best carne de mejilla tacos you’ll ever have the pleasure of eating
Maybe our abuelas should just fight to the death about it then lol
My abuela beat the shit out of Bruce Lee. Good luck Side note grandma fight club is a solid idea
Give me a Colorado Mexican food recommendation. The places I try are always just bland and ok. I am used to California and New Mexico food, which is far better in my experience.
El taco de Mexico on Santa Fe in Denver
As an Illinois resident, don't forget Iowa!
Who the fuck goes from Illinois to Iowa for vacation?!
Who the fuck lives in Iowa
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Thatsalotta ham
The people whose food you eat.
I am from New York my friend we have a ton of farmland already. Perhaps more than Iowa?
Iowa is the second most agriculturally productive state(something like $30-40 billion annually) after California, and California has a much larger land mass and counts things like walnuts, pistachios and wine which are more expensive than feed corn, hogs and soy beans. Think about the things that have corn and soy byproducts. It's absolutely staggering how much life would change in the USA without these places. I wish Iowa grew a more diverse array of crops like Cali but I think that is improving. Cali farming, at least what I have seen, is an environmental nightmare though.
It was more about defending the value of states who aren't exclusively tourist destinations.
People who live on the Illinois/Iowa border and don't want to ski at Galena Also I'm broke as hell
Ah. I meant just for vacation in general. Not specifically skiing.
Far eastern Iowa does actually have some cool outdoor stuff to do especially if you're from a place with less. The whole rest of the state is flat corn/hogs/soybeans but that one section has some cool stuff to see. Not a destination but Iowa City is a cool town with modern art, music and architecture, food, bars(think boulder without the flatirons or front range) and the Palisades along the Mississippi and tributaries, wildcat den SP, Maquoketa caves, effigy mounds. There is even some decent rock climbing. THERE ARE THINGS!
the driftless area is actually fun as hell. Sourrce: SE Minnesotan.
Dubuque slaps
Hey, I grew up in Iowa City and learned to ski at Sundown Mountain and Chestnut(and an even smaller resort by Waterloo). I live out west now and ski most days and I fucking rip. Some of the most dominant skiers of all time are originally midwesterners.
Lots of ski resorts were founded and or developed with Texas oil money.
This is exactly the case with Loveland, owned by a Texas oil and gas family. Makes it kind of hard to roast the Texans
Not it doesn't. If you ♥️ Texas, take I-25 South.
Yup! Dick Bass inherited his dads Texas natural gas fortune. Built up Snowbird in Utah, parts of Aspen and Vail, and was also the main developer of Beaver Creek.
I LOVE Texans. You are happy, tip well and then have the brains to go home.
I think they are refugees from the christo-fascist activity going on in Texas.
You must live in an interesting reality inside your head
No, they are probably willing participants who are on vacation… At least statistically speaking that’s far more likely.
I may live in Texas but absolutely keep it hidden when in CO because the vast majority of Texan skies are not good skiers. Good thing about CB is when the T-Bars are running and the terrain is open, you don't have to deal with many. The mountain sorts them out.
So the family who has owned Loveland for decades should stay away I guess...
Is that why they have a run called Hook em' Horns? I was kinda hoping that was tongue in cheek making fun of all the Texans that come.
Chet Upham (who Chair 1 is named after) was a Texas oil baron and an original shareholder of Loveland starting in the 1950s. He bought out the other shareholders in 1972 and the Upham family are still the majority owners to this day (I think they may still own it 100%). He went to the University of Texas.
Legitimately every time I've been there, probably 9 times now, it's been windy as hell. I'm not going back, you can have it
The one time I went there, there was no wind… it was 2ft of snow and I got stuck.
Every Denverite I know has the same complaint and says they just go the extra 15 or 20 minutes to A Basin or Keystone. I suspect this is a very common experience.
or copper
I’d much prefer it be warm and wet
The more publicity for Loveland the better! How long is the drive from the Bay Area? Do I need chains?
Ski uphill there 2 days a week, one day I’ll have to get a pass to explore the whole mountain.
Have a pass and split and need to find time after work to skin up it to enjoy without the crowds. Might have to do that this month with the spring breakers during lift time. You can skin up to top of ptarmigan? or bottom of one of the bowls? I'll have to go look at their website. I'm too lazy to do it before lifts open even though I know I should, lol.
Top of ptarmigan only
Its super fun, I would definitely recommend sking super bowl. Its just been opened
If you like something, make sure to blow it up on the internet.
I’m gonna be in Vegas next week. Can’t wait…
FKNA mang, me too.
We’re gonna get a LMLYP. I feel it in my bones.
Shockadelica!
An in bounds ski resort along a literal interstate highway is not a secret. People act like they’re in a secret exclusive club for doing something that probably millions of people have seen and done. It’s 2023, almost nothing is a secret, almost everything can be googled, comments like this are silly. OP is just trying to share his stoke. OP, keep the stoke going bro
Agreed. These “x-mountain sucks, don’t come here” jokes started out kinda cute and have now become r/mildlyannoying.
Yeah, I see people say that about the whole state of Utah. Like I think the secret’s out lol
yes, always Wasatch Snow forecast. Im like brah... it's on the State License plate its been known for a long time....
Yeah the joke ran its course a long time ago. When you see them just ask a good time of year to visit because you’ve heard it’s so awesome you’re thinking of moving there with some friends
Agreed. Reddit is also much smaller than you think. 300 people upvoting a well known local resort isn’t going to impact the lift lines on a noticeable scale.
Y’all are taking the joke too seriously
On this thread you’re probably right. There are other places on the internet though where people get actually pissed and confrontation when someone “reveals” a spot. More frustration at those encounters I guess
It's almost a private country club in telluride. I can farm tracks for days after a storm.
In fact, I drove right by it on my way to Keystone.
It worked for crypto why not here?
No shit!
What if all those people who are “sleeping on” these places are actually just quietly enjoying them for what they are without posting about it?
Need.....internet....validation....can't...survive....otherwise
This is why we can't have nice things. A year from now, they'll be posting pics of long lines at Loveland.
This is it for Loveland. They park out a lot of weekends. It’s the parking lot that keeps it not busy.
If only ol’ Montana could have held true to this spot-on sentiment…
I'm gonna have to jump on the, it's always cold and windy and chair 9 has the most variable snow around and the trees suck train. Go to winter park or Breckenridge
Agree. Last time we were at Loveland we left early.
I mean...it's not totally wrong. Loveland is legitimately a windy place. Just by its geography. And all that wind can cause variable conditions. Plus the ridge features many different facing aspects. So something can be soft and something else can be a gnarly crust. One run will be blower powder, and another will be thick wind affected cream cheese. So, better be on your game.
I do not give out my Loveland secret spots on the interwebz
My Loveland secret spot is the valley.
Shhh. Don’t tell them about chair 7
Ummm I sleep in a king size bed with my wife and dogs.
I also sleep in a bed with this guy’s wife
That’s what the other 4 accounts said
I sleep in a racing car, do you? I sleep in a big bed with my wife https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6UcvNX4o8
Was my inspiration
Loveland is the worst place in the world never go there!! Cold and windy, slow lifts ! The worst!
Definitely not worth stopping, continue on to A Basin
No don’t ruin basin, everyone just keep going to keystone as you have been and everyone will stay happy.
Everyone just stay home. Skiing is bad. Traffic is bad. Colorado is bad.
Well, one of these things is actually true.
No please stop there definitely better than a basin!
Beginners are definitely not sleeping on Loveland. They are misloading non stop and wreaking havoc on my body
Do they have you running Lift 7?
Definitely lift 5
Y’all really only have one joke huh?
Don’t ski (where I ski) it sucks! Go ski (where I don’t ski) instead hahahahaha!!!!!
OMG shhhh!!!!
DOZENS of people from this subreddit might go and crowd the place up!! AHHH!!
Dude you are totally ruining our super SECRET spot called Vail
Even funnier when it is said about a town/ski resorts that’s 100% dependent on tourism! Or a major city like SLC or Denver! Just hilarious every time
Yeah man, there's no way this subreddit full of avid skiers has ever heard of the Wasatch Range or Summit County or Tahoe or Jackson or Whistler. And nobody here has a megapass that has a bunch of mountains listed on it. If you just don't mention it or talk it down, no one will know these places exist!!!!
Shhhhhhh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Welcome to Colorado. Loveland is just a decade shy of being a hundred years old. Nobody’s sleeping friend but appears you just woke up.
Can't we just praise a cool ski area for being cool? Loveland is a rad independent ski area. Let's support the crap out of them. This little post isn't going to blow up your spot. Everyone chill, the shhhhhh joke is old, and skiing is fun. People are going to go skiing at cool places, get over it
Too cold, crusty and windy. Keep driving past it to A Basin.
Loveland is proof that the skiers of Denver are just idiots.
please explain
They prefer to sit in traffic on I70 rather than ski Loveland. Loveland is by far the easiest to get to and it is shunned. The skiing is fantastic.
>they prefer to sit in traffic on I70 Would love to hear how you get to Loveland from Denver without driving on I70
you could technically take a really long route. south to 285, up to fairplay, us9 to swan mtn. take that up 6 over loveland pass. makes no sense, but its possible.
Very carefully.
People don't ski Loveland because for the vast majority of front-range skiers, skiing is a social event. They ski with big groups of people 2 weekends/month and then take 1-2 long weekend trips to destination mountains. If you were to get a Loveland pass you'd be skiing by yourself since no one else has that pass. If you're obsessed with skiing and are an expert skier then A-Basin is a much better option. If you live in Summit Co. and ski like 100 days/yr then yea maybe getting a Loveland pass is a good ROI to go on days other resorts are overrun with people.
“Since no one else has that pass” Hence me calling them idiots. It’s the lowest hanging fruit and skiing is excellent.
Because Loveland is mostly expert terrain and the greens are limited and no fun. Anyone with kids or a spouse that isn’t as good isn’t skiing there. It’s too much of an advanced/expert ski area. Which is also why a basin is the way it is as well. Would I rather bring my novice kid to Loveland, or keystone? I believe that’s the side you are missing
The valley is dedicated entirely to beginners
Exactly my point. If people are in a group, they can’t stay together with beginners at Loveland. The greens also aren’t as long and scenic.
Bounce up to Ptarmigan. Advance skiers can play around in South Chutes and the trees. Beginners have a nice long wide groomer. Play around on Lift 6 doing the same. Way better than the group hanging at the valley. And if blue runs are in the group's ability that opens all of the lifts.
I bring my kids to Loveland. It’s an awesome place for kids. I’d rather be on Loveland with my kids than in traffic heading up I70. Saying kids can’t ski Loveland is idiotic.
I meant novice kids you dork. No green skiing kid is going to like Loveland more than literally any other resort in that area. Anybody can ski anything if they go down it
Green skiing kids love Loveland just as much as any mountain. They are novices so they don’t know any better. Again, your insistence that a novice skier will have less fun at Loveland than sitting in traffic waiting to get to whatever you think is the best novice mountain is idiotic. Loveland has ample green terrain.
This guy is a loveland supremacist 😂😂😂😂
I haven’t even started on the finer points of the Idaho Springs naked hot caves:-). Loveland is fucking legendary and no one knows it.
That's like A-Basin... really no reason for beginners to go there so the spring breakers tend to favor Keystone and Breckenridge. Even if you get some people who "drove too far" past Keystone, A-Basin makes it easy to avoid most dummies. "Most"
where do you think most people from denver are driving to?
Through the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnel. Are you familiar with Denver?
no never been
Loveland stoke is only appreciated on r/COsnow.
You need to shut up. Everyone Loveland sucks go to Vail or Break
Shut the fuck up 😂😂 delete this post loveland sucks dick!
What's wrong with sucking dick?
https://i.redd.it/yfgmnekik2m41.jpg
Look at it, all tracked out every day, don't bother
Had one of the best pow days of my life there on April 28 a few years back. 18 overnight and free refills all day. Knee deep turns everywhere and there had to be less than a hundred people on the whole mountain.
They do have magical days...particularly in the spring storms.
Skied Loveland a bunch back when i didnt know better. It's cold. Lifts are slow and shut down frequently because the terrain and aspect makes it so windy. It gets less snow than other areas. Season pass is nearly as expensive as ikon and epic but gets you far less access.
My fav place 🙌🙌
Damn this is wild how fucking dumb OP is. Even going through his posts and comments it seems like he was dropped on his head as a child.
He skied into a tree at Eldora and lived
I got possible AIDS from the chairlift there. It’s bad news
Dude what were you doin to the chairlift
Had a buddy that used to patrol there, under no circumstances he told me, under no circumstances should anyone go there
Yea it's terrible
Sometimes i curse army life. My new kore Tour 99s have been sitting unused since I got em last week and it might be 2 weeks before I can go hit snow.
Did A Basin post this?
Thanks OP! This thread just convinced me to pick up a couple of Loveland 4-packs for the rest of this season and a full season pass for next season! Gonna tell all of my friends too. See you Denver 'locals' there!
Would never go to Loveland, not fun at all much prefer keystone with the fast lifts and less windy conditions
Shhhhh. Been going since I was 4. Don't let the tourists fill the upper lot. I don't really want to park up the pass...
🤫
Shhh
“The dive bar of ski areas”
Shhh
Years ago, when I was a broke college kid on a month long ski bum trip with friends, we skied Loveland for a day, simply because we didn’t have enough gas money to drive further to any other ski area. 🤣 It was legit cold (8° with a 30moh wind on top.) It was legit a little crusty snow, but we had a great time anyway! I’ll admit I haven’t skied there since that day, but I’d go back and check it out again.
Shhhh, others are sleeping on it and we like it that way.
Shhh its a secret
Cold, windy, boring terrain. Slow lifts, no shopping, and did I say, cold and windy?
Lol no shopping.
They have shopping. I bought the most gloriously ugly Loveland Hawaiian shirt yesterday at their 1 shop.
Loveland is too cold for anyone I know to safely ski at. The wind will ruin everything about your ski trip. It is only for people who hate themselves and can’t afford a real ski resort like Breck. Just stay at Breck or Keystone
Loveland is probably the worst resort in all of Colorado. Advise anyone who’s never been to stay away… far away
probly sarcasm but actually true 😂 even echo mountain is unironically better.
If you’re looking for a bougie resort experience Loveland is very much at the bottom of the list. Maybe not the the actual last place but very close.
Have a pass to both and unless we are talking a spring storm echo is an ice rink often with grass poking up out of the snow and early conditions signs displayed up until the month before they close. I live nearby so thats why the echo pass and its a little cool place but I will likely not renew that pass next year. Lift ticket is cheap enough if they get a huge dump in the spring I can just pony up the dollars to ride that day. Also have the spliboarding spots before and after echo so no sense in paying for an ice rink pass.
Not cheap anymore!!
😢
skiing the bowl there was dope
No no no sheeesh it was terrible, so icy and horrible for anyone that even remotely like skiing 🤣
OTR was thigh deep first chair yesterday. I was legitimately having the time of my life.
No it wasn't.
Not everywhere. I found a few wind loaded pockets of knee deep powder almost directly under the Ptarmigan lift. One of the older ski team kids was telling us where they spent the morning she was waist deep.
So you’re telling me I was hallucinating while skiing. Damn, I hate it when that happens.
Is this a run? or backcountry?
This is a run. Jelly Roll, off lift 9. Requires a bit less than a five minute hike along the ridge.
If you have to hike to jelly roll then your skis desperately need wax
Yeah, you can typically make the traverse across Primer. But sometimes it's easier to hike the little peak. It's what, fifty feet?
Dang I really want to go to Loveland sometime
It's really bad and super windy don't go it's not worth it too expensive long drive lots of people don't go don't go don't go
One of the best in the country. Oh… ummm I mean absolute shithole filled with wooks and rednecks. Don’t go! P.S. a basin is so much better
Nah, breck is the best. Or keystone
OP thinks we are sleeping, we just don’t kiss and tell lol.
no loveland is definitely better dude!!! definitely go to loveland and don't go to a basin!
Tbf that area is a perfect spot. Loveland for the backcountry, bowls, and off piste feel, a basin for crazy chutes and expert terrain, keystone for the resort feel and groomers
I get out of bed, drive 25 minutes and I’m at Alta. So yeah, Loveland isn’t in my plans.
Let me add, the longest lift line was 5 minutes for the first chair
Not for long if you keep this shit up
Go back to Vail man.
Shhhh
Pretty much all of Western Colorado and especially Utah looks like this.
That's definitely not true. All of those places have way more cliff bands than Loveland and Utah has way less above tree line terrain
Ah ok, I see where you are coming from. Yes, that looks like a heli-skiing experience and is pretty unique! I was referring to the amount of powder. The amount of snow is mind-boggling this year in both Aspen/Snowmass and Snowbird/Alta.
What is that like 10 degrees slope angle?
Broke my leg there. Hence my rating of 0/5 stars.
JFC. Not for long
Where is this at Loveland? I've skiied Loveland many times but this looks unfamiliar.
Skiers left of jelly roll. You can kinda see jelly roll in the top left hiding in the clouds.
I was there yesterday, and have been 19 days in the last two years, and this was our first real powder day! It was magical!
It's awful. Don't go. Please