[Arawan]

to Breck normally?

DOC

lots of elbows get thrown.

[Arawan]

It looks like it's about 100 miles from Denver to Breck going that route. So, that's about 20 miles more than taking I-70.

Is the 285/9 route pretty straight forward? Anything I need to know with regards to taking this route?

Trango

The big thing is road conditions and webcams, but since the webcams can't be easily PDA surfed to, I'm going to try and compile a list of them here. Ok I just tested this - it gets you to the webcams without all the messy javascript provisioning that my PDA browser chokes on, and gets you realtime traffic views.

<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.Travel_ConditionsMarshal?mode=html&Travel_Cond itions=10">Alerts and Closures</A>

<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.Travel_ConditionsMarshal?mode=html&Travel_Cond itions=0">Travel Conditions</A>

<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.TraveltimeMarshal">Travel Times board</A>

Webcams:

<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.CCTVMarshal?CCTV=607&mode=html">Georgetown Hill</A>


<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.CCTVMarshal?CCTV=20000&mode=html">Eisenhower</A>


<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.CCTVMarshal?CCTV=257&mode=html">Silverthorne</A>


<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.CCTVMarshal?CCTV=262&mode=html">Copper Mtn</A>


<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.CCTVMarshal?CCTV=60021&mode=html">Vail Pass</A>


<A HREF="http://cotrip.org/atis/web.CCTVMarshal?CCTV=826&mode=html">West Vail, East Bound</A><ul><li><a href="http://cotrip.org">http://cotrip.org</a</li></ul>

[Arawan]

Vail Pass EB is closed right now. Consolidating all those links is definitely helpful, though. i'm going to bookmark them on my Blackjack.

samsco

CDOT will be working their rears off this weekend keeping 70 open for the ski traffic, so I wouldn't worry too much about going that route. 285 is officially a major speed trap; see posts on here in the recent past this. 9 is probably a bit dicey in the snow, and almost certainly not as well plowed as one would hope. On a good day in the middle of the summer, I'd expect that route to take a minimum of 3-4 hours from Denver. In other words, unless 70 is closed, don't bother.

R2.7TA6

took a co-worker 7 hrs to get back to Denver from GJ today. He left denver at 2am, made it there by 8am, left GJ at 9:30 took an hour nap on the way back and finally got in at 5:30. He was livid, was involved in an accident near Copper Mtn., idiot in a Subaru with ****ty tires slid into the semi.

de (-eeez_nutz)

It's takes about 2hr 30min. Hwy9 isn't horribly maintained. I'd be more worried about the wind blowing you off the road between Kenosha and Red Hill Pass.

Srsly though, I've beaten people in stop-n-go I-70 traffic to Breck going this route plenty of times. It's definately not my preferred route, but with tomorrow's crowds and the single lane on I-70, this would be one of those times I'd consider it.

de (-eeez_nutz)

It's THE biggest speedtrap in CO. He'll pull you over for 1-mph over. I usually putter through at 18mph.

Trango

MONDAY? I smell early monday morning return from el condizo.

"

I-70 Georgetown
Existing Conditions: (wet)(slush)
Restrictions in Place: Right lane closure for emergency bridge repair WB I-70 MM 218 extended backups, will reopen Monday at 5 p.m.
Comments: Right lane closure for emergency bridge repair WB I-70 MM 218 extended backups, will reopen Monday at 5 p.m.
"

Check the road condition link in my PDA link post thingy on this internet* forum thing.

*A series of tubes.