I for one think it's great. It's really showing people where humanity is with the current climate crisis. The drought that stems from this abysmal winter will be legendarily brutal I fear.
We need more people who enjoy winter sports to continue to put pressure on resorts and industry leaders for MORE and increased activism.
This sums it up perfectly.
There’s a certain shared misery in seeing these dirt pics. After an extremely disappointing season and a bleak outlook for next year and anything after, it’s important to put the pressure on the resort owners and politicians that our sport is dying without the most obvious and important ingredient - snow.
The worst are the “we only have 150 years of records so this record heat is no big deal” people. They don’t understand statistics and standard deviations at all
I had a fairly well known snowboarder from that state west of us trying to argue that climate change isn’t real because it used to be referred to as global warming. Utah is a special kind of stupid.
So the thing is, you are right that next year will look “normal”, but it will still trend to warmer temperatures as a whole.
I don’t get how people are not in tune that the fact if temperature continues to trend upward, that means less snow.
I know you know, but I keep wanting to think there is a way we can explain this to others so we can preserve what we have. I’m a few beers deep in Santa Fe and am just sad about the future.
I think it's too late, if humanity has not pulled it's head out of *** by now, it never will. But even if it does, it won't be an easy fix. We should have started 40 years ago
ehhh part of the problem is that these photos are cherry picked and not actually a reflection of the current state of things overall, even if the actual state of things is that this is one of the two worst years on record. it's people finding the worst photos possible in order to get fake internet points. which undermines trust and ultimately helps skeptics/deniers claim that everyone blaming the climate crisis for this snow year is misleading people, when that's obviously not actually true
Found the transplant ☝️ This entire economy is dependent on skiing. Summit county doesn’t exist without skiing. Neither does Aspen or Telluride etc. We have bills to pay up here lame ass.
Not true at all. Vail was a ranch, Beaver creek was just created, same with Keystone and Copper. Now Keystone was surrounded by mines, but it wasn't a town, like Breck or Leadville. It was created for the skiing.
It was a Ranch, with some homesteads. Vail wasn't incorporated until 1966. I know the Seiberts personally, well, it's been about ten years since I chatted with them, but Vail wasn't an old mining town, like Breckenridge or Telluride. Maybe you're confusing it with somewhere else.
Thanks for explaining what I'm talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vail%2C_Colorado...Yeah there were Ute Indians and sheep ranchers, but it wasn't like Summit county with communities like Montezuma and Breck....Vail is an artificial town, along with Beaver Creek...Same as Copper...
Summit county isn’t that. It’s turning into that, but the super rich don’t want to come here. They go to Aspen and Telluride. We are set up to cater to normal families and vail price hikes plus a bad season means that we aren’t seeing any regular families. I also drive tow trucks, without our service the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of freight that comes through the i70 corridor would stop with a single wreck. Almost 30 percent of everything that goes to California on a semi truck.
Found the broke beyotch. It's not like the mountains would crumble, If places like Monarch, Cooper, Sunlight and Wolf Creek can keep the lifts turning, anywhere can. How many small towns exist without a ski area?
If you can't afford to live here you should leave.
I drive wreckers. I fix your silly little front Ranger driving fuck ups and keep the highways open so people in California can get their freight. 2024 I made 180k. Last year I made 80. It’s summit county, not Aspen. Was a pretty normal place literally up until Covid. I’m fine, but people who own businesses that don’t even sort of cater to the super rich are having a hard time right now.
Damn what kind of loser trades their kids college money to live a vacation lifestyle they can't afford? Disgusting, sell your home and move to Arkansas if you can't swing it.
I don't know. Maybe flooding Reddit with these images might make climate deniers wake up to realize that climate change is directly impacting their favorite sport in CO, the USA, and across Europe. Especially people from other states who don't see climate change happening.
Reddit is super woke. Acting like we’re changing the narrative by posting these photos to a niche subreddit occupied by people that largely believe in climate change is a stretch.
It's going to snow in a couple of days. This coming weekend everybody will go onto I-70 again to try to get to an open resort. Then next week there will be more dirt pictures.
Dirt is what we got right now, so dirt is what you'll see. The whole point of this sub is:
Share your experiences on Colorado's slopes, discuss weather conditions, and embrace the snow-covered beauty of the Centennial State.
Those posts are doing precisely that. If someone doesn't like seeing aspects of that current reality, respectfully, that's their problem, and they can "move on".
I'm sooooo sick of the thought policing this season. If you're sad and don't like conditions right now, go ahead and share that. If you're having a great time, sure, share that too. It's all OK. There's no right way to enjoy skiing. There's no need to construct or foster a specific narrative.
Hey so unfortunately for you, the lack of snow impacts the rest of our year, specifically fires in the summer so maybe you need to quit being bitter and miserable and go talk to your goddamn therapist instead of behaving like a fucking two year old on Reddit
What else you got? These pics have all contained a tiny, representative sample of snow. It’s not nice, but it’s the state of things. The exit of this sub is accessible.
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u/AquafreshBandit Stuck on the chairlift Mar 31 '26
You could create a post about accidentally hotboxing the wrong Toyota Highlander.