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Ski Season Officially Over In Colorado After A-Basin Closed On Sunday
CBS4 ^
| June 14, 2015
Posted on 06/15/2015 3:21:40 PM PDT by george76
The ski season is now officially over in Colorado after Arapahoe Basin shut down their chairlifts on Sunday.
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This year’s season lasted 237 days.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; colorado; globalwarming; skiing; skiseason
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:21:40 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
I miss the good ole days when we could ski year-round before global warming...
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:24:09 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: Ultra Sonic 007
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:27:54 PM PDT
by
ImaGraftedBranch
(If you haven't figured it out, there is a great falling away...happening before your eyes.)
To: george76
Kind of early this year; I think a year or two ago A-Basin was open into July.
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:29:21 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: george76
Wow, that's late. Breckenridge closes in April.
We used to ski at Mammoth on Memorial Day and thought that was special. Did Mammoth ever get snow this year?
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:33:17 PM PDT
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: george76
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:35:00 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: xjcsa
One can still walk up , then ski down over most mountain passes and /or peaks.
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:40:27 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: xjcsa
When I lived there, I remember one ski resort maintaining a thin ribbon of snow down the mountain until July 4th each year.
Was that A-Basin?
To: george76
With all the rain we’re getting in these parts they’ll be complaining about the rising great lakes again this year.
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posted on
06/15/2015 3:56:21 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(You vote for your TPP supporter and I'll vote for mine.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
When I lived there, I remember one ski resort maintaining a thin ribbon of snow down the mountain until July 4th each year. Was that A-Basin?Probably; they're always the last one open.
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posted on
06/15/2015 4:00:36 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: george76
One can still walk up , then ski down over most mountain passes and /or peaks.Yeah...but that's a lot of work :)
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posted on
06/15/2015 4:01:20 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: george76; Pelham; CatherineofAragon; Travis McGee; Fledermaus
Yep
Folks do that at mt Logan in Glacier
A Basin has always stayed open latest in lower 48
In my day it was all bowl and steep couloir style runs
And thin air
I skied there in 77 shirtless and no sunscreen buzzed into next year
I fell
My back was scratched up
I remember girls skiing in bikinis
Breckenridge only had two peaks then
But real men skied west back side of Taos
That run named after some guy
I ended up in hospital in Santa Fe for Oral and maxillofacial surgery
I was supposed to be at college
My daddy was so pissed
Man we would get high and drink and take ludes and just point out skis downhill
Boy to be young again
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posted on
06/15/2015 4:20:10 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Game of Thrones ciao.......)
To: george76
Time to move on to Whistler. :-)
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posted on
06/15/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: george76
I’m way too old and beat up now but I hear the new bad boy is Silverton Mountain in the San Juans
An area I know well from hiking and climbing
And an area you can drive a four wheel drive way way up near the Animas
I bet it’s bare rocky and steep
With plenty chutes
God love em
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posted on
06/15/2015 4:37:35 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Game of Thrones ciao.......)
To: Veggie Todd
You can come ski Texas!
Of course, it is WATER-skiing!
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posted on
06/15/2015 4:57:08 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
To: george76
Now, is this a long ski season (Global cooling) or a shorter ski season (global warming)?
To: george76
They warned us that warming was just around the corner and THEY WERE RIGHT. Sad to see the last ski area in Colorado have to close up. The state was making a lot of money from all of the tourist-skiers coming in.
(reminds me of an early cable TV ad when the guy was pitching heating oil futures in October, telling us that he had inside information that cold weather was just around the corner)
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posted on
06/15/2015 6:23:56 PM PDT
by
BobL
(REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
To: Mase
Wow, that's late. Breckenridge closes in April. A lot of places could stay open until late May or June. They close earlier, however, not because of a lack of snow, but a lack of people to justify the cost of staying open.
To: george76
Still a lot of snow on the ‘teeners.
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posted on
06/15/2015 6:28:59 PM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: MileHi
Some fresh snow up high with all the recent moisture.
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posted on
06/15/2015 7:18:55 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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