Update: I-70 is closed eastbound around Lookout Mountain due to a multi-car pileup. Y'all know how we feel about this, so no need to elaborate, except to say that it's slowing traffic westbound as well as jokers rubberneck their way past hoping for a glimpse of carnage. C'mon people!
If you kept up here yesterday you would have noticed all the accidents that were leading to road closures in the mountains: one at I-70 and the tunnel, another on I-70 at Mount Vernon Canyon and the earliest one in Boulder Canyon (119).
You should also note how much this irritates us, because we believe that at least nine times out of ten it’s avoidable. The roads weren’t that bad yesterday, except east of Denver where the wind was howling.
It was a wet snow that made the roads more slushy than icy, but perhaps that’s what the problem was: dumbasses, jackasses and other ass-clown types feel more confident to tailgate, text or do whatever it is they do to cause accidents, ruin someone else’s day (or life, depending on the severity of the accident) and generally create chaos. You know who you are, so stop doing it.
There. We’ve said our piece, and we feel so much better, especially since we have new snow to report, though not as much as we’d like. We were really hoping to report new snow totals of two to three feet, but it just didn’t pan out that way.
I guess this answers yesterday’s question about the hype that preceded this storm: the answer turns out that it was way overhyped. Oh well, it’s still relatively early in March, every bit helps, and this was still a healthy dose of snow throughout the mountains.
The top five 24-hour snow totals go to: Aspen Highlands, Wolf Creek, Monarch, Ski Cooper and Eldora.
Next up is a chance of snow Monday afternoon through Tuesday night, mainly along I-70 and north. It could turn out to be nothing, or close to nothing, but we’ll know more when it skims through tomorrow evening.
There it is, and here are the 24-hour and 48-hour total snow accumulations from Colorado’s ski areas…
Arapahoe Basin: 5”, 8”
Aspen Highlands: 10”, 12”
Aspen Mountain: 5”, 8”
Beaver Creek: 4”, 8”
Breckenridge: 5”, 10”
Buttermilk: 3”, 5”
Copper Mountain: 4”, 7”
Crested Butte: 1”, 3”
Durango Mountain Resort: 2”, 11”
Eldora: 8”, 9”
Keystone: 4”, 7”
Loveland: 4”, 8”
Monarch: 9”, 11”
Powderhorn: 5”, 9”
Ski Cooper: 9”, 11”
Ski Granby Ranch: 3”, 3”
Snowmass: 6”, 7”
Steamboat: 4”, 5”
Sunlight: 6”, 7”
Telluride: 6”, 9”
Vail: 4”, 7”
Winter Park: 5”, 9”
Wolf Creek: 10", 26”
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