First trauma of winter

[LeeW]

ah, my truck slid on black ice via Vail Pass. :-/ Body damage. Oh well. Im ok, and truck's still ok. time to go shopping for body shop via silverthorne. :-/

[Neil Gendzwill]

Glad you're OK. Watched a pedestrian fall flat on his ass while I was waiting at a light today - apparently the ice hazard is everywhere!

[jtslalom]

Yeah its 75 degrees here today and no sign of cold weather for a good 2 months. I haven't seen ice since last May.

[Randy S.]

I just got the latest LL Bean winter catalog. On the back, where they print your name and special messages, there was a segment that said:

"Remember Last Winter blah blah blah" "In San Carlos (insert your town here) the coldest recorded temperature last winter was 39 degrees."

I do remember having a frost two winters ago. No black ice though. God I love living here. 3.5 hours to snow and you can play golf or ride bikes all year round at my house. Only downside is the median home price is $550K.

[Neil Gendzwill]

No such luck here - winter's winter, and it's looking grim already. My daughter went on a school camping trip last week and happened to hit a record cold snap: -8 overnight (that's 18F for you metrically challenged). Wasn't expecting that in September! Plus, I still have to drive 8 hours to hit the mountains. OTOH median housing price is around $CDN130K.

[corey_dyck]

Hey Neil, where do you ride? Russell, MB? If so, we should hook up sometime this year. I've never even seen someone else in hardboots...

My email address is in my profile.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Russell? What the heck's in Russell? Something built on the river valley?

Locally, it's Blackstrap, a pile of dirt on top of a riverbank built for the 71 Canada Winter Games. I don't often go there.

For weekend trips, almost always Banff, it's about 8 hours. If we do a week, it will often be Big White (Kelowna). This year we're planning on Panorama.

[Jon Dahl]

1.5 hrs to Mt. Baker, 2 hrs to Stevens pass, 2.5 hrs to Crystal and, drum roll please, 2.5 hrs to Whistler! Around 1500 vert. at all, give or take, and enough backcountry to keep me from ever being bored. And all the volcanoes anyone could ever want to duck!

[corey_dyck]

Originally posted by Neil Gendzwill
Russell? What the heck's in Russell? Something built on the river valley?
http://www.asessippi.com

Given the choice of Asessippi or Banff, I'd probably pick Banff too. ;) Asessippi is the best I've seen in this area.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Looks way better than Blackstrap, but that's still a 4 hour drive for both of us for a 200 acre resort...

[Michelle]

I feel lucky!

15 minutes to Copper, 25 minutes to Vail, 20 minutes to Breck, A-Basin, and Keystone, 25 minutes to Loveland.

Median single family home here: $450 US

That's why I live in a tiny little apartment :cool:

[D-Sub]

want a housemate, michelle?:)

median price is 450, huh? Im so out of it!

lookin more and more like Bend is the place!

[Mark Brown]

Originally posted by Michelle
I feel lucky!

15 minutes to Copper

Yep, you are lucky!!!

An hour to my local 600 foot bump and we're lucky if they open before Christmas (with 100% man made ice!) Geesh, I gotta move...

[LeeW]

Originally posted by Mark Brown
Yep, you are lucky!!!

An hour to my local 600 foot bump and we're lucky if they open before Christmas (with 100% man made ice!) Geesh, I gotta move...

Wisp? That's my first mountain/hill where I snowboard way back in 1990.

Anyhow, well, looks like it's gonna cost me 6000 bucks to repair the truck. -SIGH-