Touring Colorado's Newest Ski Area: NO CHAIRLIFTS!

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  • Опубликовано: 6 дек 2024

Комментарии • 81

  • @russclewley6945
    @russclewley6945 Год назад +6

    What a great concept. I met a guy at Powdermountain in Utah who skinned every run and never road a single chair. He was 64 years old. I was blown away.

  • @ISOwren
    @ISOwren Год назад +3

    RIP Bluebird it was so fun!

  • @stevenutepass7671
    @stevenutepass7671 Год назад +7

    Nice video, I'm familiar with bluebird living near & helping set up prior. Everyone of staff seemed extra friendly, motivated, helpful and certainly not doing for money but to promote the backcountry.
    Wishing all there a great season!

  • @youcancallmeana
    @youcancallmeana Год назад +2

    That's a great idea, as someone who's getting older, that would be a great place to fulfill my skiing wants!

  • @bb5242
    @bb5242 2 года назад +108

    Probably a good place to go to avoid dentists from TX.

    • @ticklefritz5406
      @ticklefritz5406 2 года назад +4

      I have a friend from Texas who is a dentist, but he is a snowboarder so I'm reconsidering our friendship

    • @TexasDoctor7
      @TexasDoctor7 2 года назад

      Texans own more Colorado land than y’all...and we avoid the local mongoloids except when absolutely necessary. We’re tolerant, but do not suffer fools gladly. Be very careful !

    • @bkl8804
      @bkl8804 2 года назад +2

      Word

    • @drwho5437
      @drwho5437 2 года назад

      Only to find their kids littering on the mountain. Truth is these places cater towards spoiled adolescents.

    • @ticklefritz5406
      @ticklefritz5406 2 года назад +3

      @@drwho5437 What are you talking about? "These places"? This is the only place of its kind in Colorado at the moment. Rarely will you ever find an adolescent skinning up a mountain, and especially rare would be an adolescent from Texas skinning up a mountain. But if you did actually see this anomaly skinning up a trail I highly doubt that kid would be a litterbug

  • @williamsavage6301
    @williamsavage6301 Год назад +2

    Awsome concept, good luck with it. I have cross country skied on Rabit Ears Pass many times. Most of the forest service trails, Walden Peak, etc. I'll be in Steamboat in Jan. and Feb. 2023. I might try to check you guys out.

  • @jasonfrench1971
    @jasonfrench1971 Год назад +1

    Great idea

  • @futuresmart2505
    @futuresmart2505 Год назад +7

    Went last year for a few days and the concept is cool but, most of the good terrain gets skied out quick. The rest is pretty flat and also the really good stuff you have to go guided. If you have no friends and want to start BC this is a good place, but its remote location makes this rough for a day trip and at the end of the day you could find better terrain all over Colorado closer to where most people live regardless of where you come from. Did have a season pass, wont be getting another one, likely wont come back unless im staying in the boat and not skiing rabbit ears area.

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  Год назад +1

      This was our experience as well.

    • @LillivvyP
      @LillivvyP Год назад

      But like if it was your first time touring, would you reccomend? Im getting into it this season when Im back in Breck.

  • @danbob1650
    @danbob1650 Год назад +2

    Go to Mt Bohemia in the U.P. check that place out.

  • @DiaEule
    @DiaEule 2 года назад +1

    Great review

  • @edkrassenstein5534
    @edkrassenstein5534 2 года назад +16

    Looks amazing! I'm a lifelong boarder who is looking to venture into the backcountry next season. How little snow we had this year has made me look at it more seriously. I'll definitely make a few trips out here next season just to see if it's actually something I enjoy before buying myself gear.
    Thanks for the video. Information on this resort is sparse.

  • @spencerjones7903
    @spencerjones7903 2 года назад +2

    This is amazing

  • @at1970
    @at1970 Год назад

    This looks like most of the terrain at steamboat ski area and the surrounding NF. Nice snow, but basically flat.

  • @edwardlobb931
    @edwardlobb931 Год назад +1

    Nothing better than X Country, but you can clearly see that search and rescue will be one of the major piggy back industries as it expands.

  • @Craigeek
    @Craigeek 11 месяцев назад +1

    Sad news, Bluebird closed their doors permanently this summer.

  • @oogabooga4047
    @oogabooga4047 2 года назад +9

    This is a really cool way to promote your goggles 10/10 if you guys keep making good content I’ll buy the gogs just to support the content

  • @whitebeltforlife5271
    @whitebeltforlife5271 Год назад +2

    This is Genius ! Just beaking into the sport... in Denver for the winter , gonna check it out...

  • @ry4n.bg6
    @ry4n.bg6 Год назад +1

    i met one of the owners of this place on a lift at copper once

  • @nathanmark2579
    @nathanmark2579 2 года назад +7

    it's a cost floor, not ceiling. There almost no ceiling to speak of

  • @breathe.move.perform.health
    @breathe.move.perform.health 2 года назад

    So great❤

  • @oxpack
    @oxpack Год назад

    Be cool if stagecoach did this and opened. I like the low (ish) entry costs to open a venue like this.

  • @thatmarcusallen
    @thatmarcusallen Год назад +1

    Too bad they had to close down.

  • @cvn6555
    @cvn6555 2 года назад +1

    No thanks. Too much work. But you all enjoy the hell out of it.

  • @atvkilla200
    @atvkilla200 Год назад +1

    So I can go here, pay money to hike and sweat my ass off to get a run or two? You guys can sell ice to Eskimos!

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  Год назад

      Ha - no stress if it isn't your cup of tea. It can be a killer - and most importantly, safer - way to dip your toes into backcountry skiing though!

  • @zachcrennen2342
    @zachcrennen2342 2 года назад +2

    Why would you pay for backcountry

    • @mtadams2009
      @mtadams2009 2 года назад +7

      I think they explained it early in the video. It’s mostly for people new to the backcountry. This is a more controlled way to get into the backcountry.

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  Год назад

      Yep, exactly.

    • @grammerpolicedeputy6913
      @grammerpolicedeputy6913 Год назад +1

      To have a ski patrol safety net basically

  • @matthewcozart7684
    @matthewcozart7684 2 года назад

    Is this on private property then? Or on forest that someone permitted? And also controlled makes it sound like you control for snow safety.

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  2 года назад +4

      It is private land that they are leasing from the owner. They do avalanche mitigation work, but no bombing.

  • @boardrfolif3
    @boardrfolif3 Год назад

    Are you able to bring a snowmobile and do laps with that?

  • @codybitterman9387
    @codybitterman9387 Год назад +1

    Imagine hiking to still ski through someone elses tracks 🤣

  • @kig2055
    @kig2055 2 года назад +3

    Sweet. Now I just need to not live in……nj

  • @rustyshackle917
    @rustyshackle917 Год назад +2

    So... pay $40 to bc ski? Sucker born every minute I suppose.

  • @jkruehmann
    @jkruehmann Год назад

    Break down that poem. It means something

  • @roblo5558
    @roblo5558 Год назад

    Ok so an interesting idea for sure, no shade intended but let me play devil's advocate here for a sec... Since there isn't much options for decent somewhat steeper out of bounds riding around Steamboat, doesn't this just create another money barrier to access as well as remove what used to be free backcountry access to the average person? I like the idea of working yourself safely into the backcountry setting but as if skiing/boarding wasn't an elitist thing already, now I have ppl trying to charge me to walk out into the what used to be free backcountry? And ppl wonder why the industry is in a bad place

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  Год назад +3

      There was no backcountry access here prior to Bluebird. It is private land that they are leasing. So, if anything, you now have access to more BC terrain than you did before Bluebird existed.

  • @mountainflyhigh
    @mountainflyhigh Год назад

    No good terrain near Steamboat? Guy has obviously never heard of Buffalo Pass.

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  Год назад

      We have sled skied all over buff pass, that comment was in the context of having steep terrain. Which, relative to Summit, it does not.

  • @sebassroet817
    @sebassroet817 Год назад +1

    Unless it's free who cares. Many free mountains to skin up for free

    • @dl6225
      @dl6225 Год назад

      skinning up Free mountains for free, wow genius!

  • @trah_dawg
    @trah_dawg Год назад +5

    Backcountry skiing should be hard to find. That’s the whole point. Keeps the kooks out.

  • @Below_Average_Nerd
    @Below_Average_Nerd 2 года назад +5

    This place will be out of business in 5 years or less.

  • @ST19859
    @ST19859 2 года назад +7

    Looks like fun terrain but a terrible business plan, no way I m paying for something I can do for free on USFS land.

  • @Loganayee
    @Loganayee Год назад

    Definitely not for beginners 😂

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  Год назад

      Totally for backcountry beginners! That was the main idea behind the creation of Bluebird.

  • @j0ndav1s
    @j0ndav1s Год назад

    So its like backcountry but you pay someone money? Neat... NOT!

  • @dmitryshusterman9494
    @dmitryshusterman9494 Год назад +1

    It's a well known and well used place to go skinning, but now we have to pay to access the terrain? The main attraction of going Backcountry is free access. I can see the day when we'll have to pay for any convenient access to our national Forrest. Disgusting.

    • @GladeOpticsTipsUp
      @GladeOpticsTipsUp  Год назад

      No. There was actually zero skinning here done before Bluebird, as it was entirely private land before Bluebird leased it and opened it to the public.