Colorado pictures

[Admin]

I often receive press releases from PR flacks that contain interesting photos but nothing worthy of a news story. Here are a few such photos that came in today from Colorado and they seem worthy of posting to the snow-starved masses here:

 

[Tony Crocker]

They may be newsworthy, but they are completely irrelevant with respect to how soon anyone in the general public can expect to start skiing in Colorado this season. So I tend to consider them somewhat misleading as a marketing exercise.

 

[Tony Crocker]

The dusting in those pics has nothing to do with the A-Basin opening on manmade, except perhaps for coincident cold temperatures. In terms of natural snow terrain and percentage of area open, both Loveland and A-Basin tend to be laggards and often do not come into their own until sometime in January. March and April are on average the best months at both areas.

 

[Admin]

The dusting in those pics has nothing to do with the A-Basin opening on manmade, except perhaps for coincident cold temperatures. In terms of natural snow terrain and percentage of area open, both Loveland and A-Basin tend to be laggards and often do not come into their own until sometime in January. March and April are on average the best months at both areas.

Umm...who said that they did? :-k I just thought that they were pretty pictures worthy of sharing via a forum post, not something that was newsworthy...which is why they ended up here.

 

[Pajarito-Bred]

From those Silverton photos, it looks to me like they're skiing on dust on a crusty old snowfield left over from last YEAR-- look at the rocks in the background! Those photos are newsworthy though, if only to take my mind off the election-season news-griping of O'Reilly and Olberman-

And, as we know all too well from the election season, it takes only a dusting of truth on top of some nasty rocks, to whip up a nice misleading marketing campaign, for either skiers or voters. -- Doesn't have to be truthful to be effective--
:dead horse:


As soon as our real ski season starts, then those photos of snow on fall leaves will lose their place at the top of the news- but for now, its all we've got.

 

[Sharon]

Thanks for posting those Marc...they are pretty. Definitely getting me psyched for ski season.

Now it is just a waiting game in which I pass the time trying to get enough exercise to get into shape for in the next month or so.

 

[CWHappyRN]

I was surfing for information on ropes and care of them for climbing, belay, chair evacuations, regarding dressing the ends of them. I accidentally hit upon a link that may be useful to Colorodans. It is about the first 20 free to a recurring ride by bus to Keystone and Breckenridge from UC Boulder. It is a ski bus touted for being able to sleep or relax all the way for 10.00 or free if you are the first 20 in the "herd" they say. Funny, they consider us a herd.

http://www.colorado.edu/rec-center/prog ... index.html