Looking for advice for southern Colorado

jamesdeluxe said:
I don't have any experience with Telluride, Purgatory, or Wolf Creek due to the long drive times. Check out my TRs and article about Monarch (if it has fresh snow, there's enough to keep you busy for two days/as MM mentions, overnighting in Salida is easy) and Crested Butte, which I don't consider to be southern Colorado.
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Do you know anything about the Silver Ridge Lodge in Salida? Any recommendations for motels in Salida? In particular motels with exterior doors.

The bigger group that was hoping to get back to Taos has cancelled going to New Mexico. My core crew of four are going to fly to Denver and spend more time skiing in Colorado in February instead. Mostly staying in Dillon but staying in Salida and South Fork to ski Monarch and Wolf Creek on the weekend. A couple of my ski buddies skied Steamboat, Winter Park, and Copper in December. So they got a pretty good feel for how things are operating in and around Dillon.
 
Sorry, but, jumping on a plane and traveling to the Rockies to ski, is horribly irresponsible behavior at the moment. This pandemic isn't getting better, it's getting worse. More people are sick, in hospitals, and dying than last April, when the world shut down, thank God. After the holidays, most scientists agree that this will spread like a California wildfire over the next month or so. Yeah, the meat of ski season. The rollout of the vaccine is stumbling badly, and won't be effective until a very large number of America is poked. Woe to poorer countries. And that won't happen until, I hope, this time NEXT YEAR.

I know, this really sucks. Really, really. But it's not over, by far. The best we can do as a society is, STILL, stay home, mask, and distance, until that light appears at the end of the tunnel. Hey, sure, I spent one day at Hunter violating my own guidelines, so, you know, I get it. It really sucks spending so much time inside in the winter after 35 years of getting out and skiing, which, after all, is the best thing about skiing. Getting out and traveling in winter. But, this isn't the year. Nobody is that special. Well, maybe if you have a slopeside ski in/out property somewhere with a good kitchen and food delivery, and a private jet to get you there. If you can cook, which I doubt most in that situation can. But, lucky them, if the lifts are spinning. Otherwise, you are part of the problem.
 
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right on Benny! Talking about flying to ski is total irresponsible “diva” type move, good thing no one else talks about flying to ski it just makes skiers look spoiled
 
Spot on Benny !!!!
 
Call me a yankee, but it seems people in the north east get this more than other regions because of last spring.
 
I agree that skiing at big mountains off-piste after age 60 has an element of risk. That’s why I and my friends have been doing semi-private lessons with very experienced (20+ years, mostly PSIA Level 3) instructors in the last decade.

I disagree that flying or traveling in general is high risk for people of any age who understand how COVID-19 spreads and take appropriate precautions. I would be at much higher risk in some places that are less than an hour from my house in central NC, so I don't go there.

Universal mask usage requirements at airports and on planes make a difference. A couple of my travel mates and ski buddies (not all Ski Divas) who enjoyed ski trips out west in December work in the medical field and have recently been vaccinated. In December we all wore N95 or KN95 masks on board the flights. We handled lodging, meals, and ground transportation differently than usual. My family and my friends all stayed healthy in 2020 because we took precautions before they were even required. All of my friends who traveled to ski in the Rockies during early season are healthy at the start of 2021, after having been home from our ski trips for two weeks. A few got tested a few days after returning home and tested negative, while others self-quarantined.

I spent Feb-May learning as much as was known about COVID-19 and how to keep myself and my family healthy. I discussed research articles with good friends who have medical or scientific backgrounds. Back then here was more than enough information available based on what happened in other countries, as well as in the U.S in states like Washington, Massachusetts, New York, or Colorado.

Won't be posting any more questions about ski travel in 2021. Have a good season!
 
Eh.

Feb-May is a long time ago in the history of this pandemic. We didn't even know it was here in early to mid February, while it was spreading all around the Colorado ski resorts like it did in Ischgl in Austria. Skiers should be a little contrite about their activities then, because they contributed to the spread in America and Europe greatly. I'm still convinced I got a mild case by flying out to SLC in mid Feb. on four flights and hanging with the Euro trash in Deer Valley and Park City. Remember how the coastal elites were pearl clutching about Sturges in the summer? Oh, those horrid people! Don't they know there is a plague among us all? Well, here we are in ski season, and those same coastal elites, which is where most of the ski population comes from, are thinking, ok, it's cool to do something so frivolous as jump on a plane (you know, a big metal tube that people cram into and breath recirculated air for 3-5 hours) and go ... skiing. Not even visit family for the holidays, as millions just did, against all advice, but go do something as unnecessary as ski. Because, well, that's important, right? More important than your health or your family's health or hundreds of stranger's health, especially the strangers from all over the country who live and work at your destination.

There isn't enough information at all for you to make an educated decision about acting out in this pandemic. The scientists are still learning about this thing on the fly. Just in the past week or so, a new mutation has surfaced in Britain and now in Colorado and Florida that is much more contagious than the original virus. But we have a maniacal and narcissistic president who has consciously blocked the ability to test and trace this disease , because he didn't want "his" numbers to look bad. (today's NYT article) Even his much hyped virus rollout in such a short time is now clogged with awful administration and distribution of the shots, which doesn't surprise me at all. He has more important things to deal with, like destroy our democracy. The rest of the world looks on in horror, especially Europe, which, btw, has closed most of their lift serviced skiing, for very good reasons. And Americans may not be able to travel there for who knows how long. Canada, too.

Your friends are lucky they aren't sick. But, how do you know that they didn't carry the virus to their destination and spread it there? Most of the infected are asymptomatic. So many could be murdering others without knowing it.
 
Whoa, did the airline industry get SHUT DOWN? like ski resorts
take that post to an airline site , but keep it the hell off ski sites, last thing we need is these peoples and others kids feelin it’s okay to fly
wearing n95 masks to travel to ski is a slap in the face to 1st responders who need those masks! I gave away the box of n95 masks I had to 1st responders
saying that they didn’t get sick etc shows they don’t care about passing coved to others
also most masks people wear do not fit properly, but hey she and her friends had n95 masks,
sure skiing out off piste has risks to YOU! But not others who might be flying to see sick family members like a friend last week his wife tested posative after flying to visit a sick relative
the government helps the airline industry because it is needed
I applaud Benny for having the guts to point out such a boneheaded move , it’s the smart thing to do
its been widely known that any N95 masks should be given to 1st responders, using them to travel to ski is what a teenager would try to get away with
 
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