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aiwritingfic February 18 2014, 08:03:57 UTC
Living in Colorado I can tell you that Vail and Aspen in particular are NUTS during Spring Break. Breckenridge is also up-and-coming (and might be less frou-frou than Vail or Aspen.) Doesn't even have to be Spring Break--people apparently just go in between; a friend recently did Breckenridge with a bunch of her schoolmates (they're all from the East Coast) over a weekend.

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tamtrible February 18 2014, 08:59:08 UTC
Ski resorts during spring break, check.

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nineveh_uk February 18 2014, 11:22:39 UTC
Ditto. OK, I'm in the UK, but university skiing clubs are notorious for hard partying.

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mindways February 18 2014, 13:15:44 UTC
Yeah - when you said "college students" and "colorado", the very next word to pop into my head was "skiing". I've never been myself, but if I were to judge from the number of people who talked about going skiing in colorado for spring break, I'd expect it to be swamped.

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tamtrible February 19 2014, 08:17:38 UTC
I honestly wasn't sure whether the ski season extended to whenever Spring Break usually is. Sounds like it does...

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swiftgold February 20 2014, 03:26:05 UTC
Last year the closing day of one of the ski areas here was June 9...though I think the crowds are probably over by then. Then there's summer tourism, hiking and such as well.

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tamtrible February 20 2014, 08:49:38 UTC
See, I'm used to Arizona. It's already warm enough that I don't need a jacket during the day most of the time, and it's only February. I'm not used to places with actual, proper winter...

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swiftgold February 21 2014, 06:01:08 UTC
The mountains themselves are pretty different than the Denver area, just due to altitude. Some winters are a bit weird, but we have many days of sunshine so it'll snow and then all melt quite often. The higher you go the longer it sticks around, of course. I went rafting once in the second week of June in the mountains and it was snowing very lightly at 10,000 feet as we got to where we were starting from, but just raining the rest of the time as we came back down a bit.
I do hate snow though, so I think I'd like Arizona in the winter, heh. (But probably not the summer, admittedly!)

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