Co. winters getting ya down ?

[supervision]

 Relieve that cabin fever, with a blast of Adrenaline. 

 
 

  Just thought this looks bad ass, and fun!

[Night Vision]

hey, "we" get snow too 'ya know,,

that is so much cooler than a traditional sled.... Yamaha SNO550 right?

[kwells]

hard to tell which is the front.  That thing makes you really lean it through the turns.  What blast that thing would be.

[Brian Moffet]

hard to tell which is the front.

The side with the headlight silly  :o

[h2olawyer]

Looks like a great way to spend some time in the snow.  However, I don't think it would do well in unpacked snow.  Would probably sink right to the bottom.

Frankly, I'd rather have one of these.  That way, I can take a group of friends into the backcountry & do some awesome skiing!



This one is for sale - $15,000 without passenger cabin.

H₂O

[kwells]

or you could just hitch a ride on one at Copper Mtn.  We'll have to hit that up this winter H2

[h2olawyer]

But at Copper, you still have to buy a lift ticket.  If you owned your own snow cat, you just have to worry about fuel & hauling costs.  Find the right place, & you can store it there, going up to use it when time permits.  I'd definitely want to refresh my avalanche knowledge, though.

Still, you're right.  We'll have to spend a few days at Copper riding that rig.  I may even get a season pass for this winter - especially if it has a few Steamboat days included.

H₂O

[kwells]

well this year the pass is just under 500 but does include 6 days at Steamboat which makes that extra 100 over the regular pass a steal.  Wonder what mileage one of those rigs gets per gallon?

[h2olawyer]

I'm sure they don't sip fuel, but at least they're diesel.  I know they can make a full day's worth of trips up & down the mountains around Ski Cooper without refueling.  That's about 12 runs plus the ride out & back.  (www.skicooper.com/chicagoRidge.html)  They charge $225 per day now.  When I was skiing there for a few winters, they were only charging about $100 - that was less than 10 years ago!

$500 isn't bad at all.  Steamboat daily tix are about $80.  Just the 6 days there would almost pay for the entire pass.  My first Season pass at Steamboat was $75!  True, that was a "Junior" pass, but it was valid every day with no blackout dates.  Think that was in the early '70s.  Before that, my dad was a National Ski Patrolman.  He got a free ticket for every day he worked.  He never went skiing for fun, so I got all the free tix.   ;D

H₂O

[kwells]

Im still waiting to see if they start offering the locals any deals on those passes.  Will probably go with the copper over the 5 mtn vail pass because of the steamboat deal.  Plus, I have friends with condos at both copper and steamboat so Id truly be set up this year!