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Originally Posted by marsplasticeraser
I last skied in Colorado pre-pandemic, but even then it was nuts how busy it was.
I think there are two reasons.
1. There are 4.5 million people that live in the front ranges (Denver, fort collins, boulder) so 3x the people.
2. There are so many vacation homes at / near ski hills it makes weekends skiing so much easier. It's like if we had 20 Canmore's within 3 hrs of Calgary serving 10+ ski resorts. This means more people skiing multiple days on weekends.
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Don’t forget ikon / epic pass. The Colorado resorts are unlimited resorts so locals go more frequently whereas in Calgary most people are paying $120 per day.
And with multipasses + cheap flights, there are way more skiers from the east travelling to Colorado for powder weeks.
Colorado also has multiple resorts feeding into a single highway to get back to Denver, so the end of day traffic really gets amplified too.