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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel
Subject: Re: I-70 west of Denver
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:58:53 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: My own, such as it is
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:28:33 -0500,
  sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
>  On 4/2/2025 8:53 PM, bfh wrote:
> > sticks wrote:
> >> Was planning on going over the Rockies via I-70.  Roads are 
> >> fine now, but supposed to get 7-8" snow in Vail on Tuesday.  
> >> That would give them 2 1/2 days to clear the roads before we 
> >> would go through there Friday. Crap.
> >>
> >> Guess I'll plan the southern route using I-40, and take a 
> >> look at going through Salt Lake and I-80 in case it looks 
> >> unpassable.  They actually had a 5 mile stretch they just 
> >> pulled the snow tire/chain restrictions for passenger 
> >> vehicles this morning.
> > 
> > Where are you now? Did you find a place to stay? Is it 
> > snowing?
> 
>  Just getting ready to leave this morning.  Conditions have 
>  improved dramatically and we're gonna try I-70.
> 
>  Here's a good resource for Colorado winter driving conditions
> 
> <https://maps.cotrip.org/event/COSEG-431848/@-106.21807,39.9798,7?show=winterDriving,chainLaws>

This is probably too late by now, but just an FYI that when we 
drove I-70 west to east through Colorado last March the surface 
was just awful--in very bad repair.

-- 
Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA