96avs01 wrote:MarthaP wrote:96avs01 wrote:Luciano136 wrote:In CO's favor though, you can be in big mountains from Denver in about 30min in the middle of the winter. Won't happen here...
Sure, with that Continental snowpack that likes to avy. Prefer to drive a little further and enjoy the Coastal pack myself. YMMV
There's ALWAYS someplace to ski in CO - you just have to be intelligent about it, read the forecasts, and dig a pit. There are avys in CA as well - try that traverse from Alpine Meadows to Squaw sometime, or hang out around Kirkwood.
Besides, the CO champagne powder will beat out Sierra Cement or Cascade Concrete any day.
Never said there weren't CA avys, and I have been to both those areas. I would rather have a few less pow days in trade for more days in the backcountry on a more stable snowpack. Hope more in CA are enticed by that champagne pow and decide to head your way.
No WONDER you like crappy snow - knuckle-draggers do better in crud than in pow!
Ego snow! Ego snow!