See there…that’s just a rookie mistake. Best way to get up is to never go to sleep. It’s less painful.
Rookies…sleep…kids these days…
I am SO excited. Friday I packed my big duffel (tent,sleeping bag,etc) and gave it to my buddy that will be driving out for Town Park landrush. Picked up my Nightgrass tickets at the post office on Saturday morning. Sunday I worked on my bus and listened to the 2010 house band bootleg and got MORE excited…
(I know “each day in life is precious” but frankly i am ready for these next 36 ‘precious moments’ to be over with so I can head to the airport!)
I’d love to be heading over there right now with all this wet snow on the ground in Denver. FFFFFESTIVAL!
I guess we’ll just have to wait until then…lots of other good music gonna git played fore then…good regional bluegrass festival in CO at Bluegrass at the Fair down in Pueblo at the end of the month.
WOOT!
lol @ the weather being any better in Telluride! … the endless winter continues
There’s been more snow this year than last & it’s also been more consistantly cold … so my suspicion is that snow will linger at higher elevations come bluegrass time, even if there’s a prolonged warming trend.
That’s great !! I’m going on one of those photo jeep tours up in the mountains of Telluride. Get some snow pics in June . CAN’T WAIT!! I see on the webcam its still winter there . WOW!!
i was hoping to climb one of the wilsons this year while i’m out, hope you are wrong! but i don’t think you are unfortunately.
Late snowmelt means higher water. Bear Creek, Bridal Veil and the San Juan will be more spectacular. Last year it was pretty dry. And the water will be good and cold. Can’t wait to dip the old feet into the San Juan after a good hike!
River take me! A cold river sounds soooo good. I predict run off will be swift, fishin will be bad in June and yeah that river, headache cold. YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Who’s excited, not me, nooooooooooooooooooooooo :evil Sqiurt gun love :evil soon :medal
I have climbed Wilson, Sunlite and Windom and it was a great push. :medal I think the way the weather is lookin this planet is going to go from 1 to 100 in June so not so sure about it being to wet. The weather patterns suggest we are in for a very hot summer.
Oh yes! Great point. Bridal Veil was pretty tiny in 2012 (completely subjective opinion), thought it looked better last year. Here’s to a great view of a mighty water fallin’ in 2014!
FWIW - If I think I’m sick of snow, my parents live up on the side of Mt. Evans @ about 9,500 ft. They’re SO ready for summer.
Yeah, in reality this is what it will boil down to for most … lower elevation hiking will probably be unaffected - save for a swollen stream which might require more care or wet feet to cross. Going up a little higher, you might find patches of snow here or there in unexposed northern aspects … although popular trails will be bootpacked. Those who are looking to summit some peaks such Wilson might have longer stretches of snowfields to travel through, but would definitely ask around about Wilson or others which pose potential higher risk about their status.
Made it up Tomboy Road to the Royer Gulch waterfall(s) about a week ago and it was completely dry until the falls. I’ve heard the Silverton side of Ophir pass was mostly cleared, and imagine they’re also chomping at the bit on the Ouray side of Imogene. Not sure what they’ll all look like by Bluegrass time, but my guess is everything will be open except maybe Black Bear.
Looks like the new Chatham County Line album is out. Can’t wait to hear it. Excited they are joining us this year.
Black Bear wasn’t even open last year… It seems like they usually open it in early July, but I don’t live there, so I probably don’t have very good statistics.
I’m hoping for some nice ice pack, it’ll make for some more scenic mountain running. Thinking about going all the way up to Lewis Lake and/or Blue Lake.
You’re probably right about Black Bear, I don’t pay attention to that one. I have very little fear on a snowboard - even in the most crazy terrain, but you’ll never catch me in a vehicle coming down that pass!
From the stats I’ve read recently, the total amount of snow compared to last year is actually pretty close … but it’s been the persistantly cooler temps which have slowed the meltoff this spring.
Hopefully people who enjoy SCI and all that comes with it can go back to Telluride and leave the traditional folks to their 38 year old family friendly festival. It was actually very cool before 2014 happened.
Traditional Fan
Huck Finn Jubilee Jam
IS IT JUNE YET!! I know we just finished up a great weekend of music and friends but I MISS TELLURIDE ALREADY. The weekend went by soooooooooooo fast . Well , we have 5 months until tickets go on sale . Am I jumping the gun !! Love ya all
FFFFEEESSSTTTIIIVVVAAALLL!!!
Great point! Especially since it is, after all, impossible to enjoy both String Cheese and traditional bluegrass. You’d never find a SCI fan at a Del show, would you?
Honestly it is not SCI per se. It is the horde of disrespectful people that follow them and “Jam Grass”. There were drugs everywhere, police helicopters, people jumping the fence to get in. My son and I have to walk by a guy who is passed out drunk, half on a deflated air mattress and half on the grass. People would jump the fence into the pool area rather than walk around to the entrance. It had NEVER been like that before. Understand? 30+ years. Never.
Hey Hot Sugar why don’t you provide some feedback for SCI fans? Try to teach them to respect their surroundings. Huck Finn Jubilee was a family friendly festival until 2014.
Believe me if the promoters book another “Jam Grass” band this festival will be very short lived. The people who basically created it so SCI fans could even go to it are waiting to see who is booked. If 2015 is another bait and switch, poof it’s gone and everybody loses. That deeply saddens me because there aren’t many places you can expose your kids to a musical weekend without festival stupidity like SCI fans brought.
The solution is to just have a “Jam Grass” festival on a separate weekend. I wonder why there isn’t a 30+ year old “Jam Grass” festival around here? Hmm?
However old Jamgrass is, I’d say Telluride has been a Jamgrass Festival that long. It’s a newer tradition, but asking why there are no 30-year old Jamgrass festivals is like asking why there aren’t any 30-year old Snowboard Halfpipe competitions. It’s a nice way of trying to earn a little cred by being old though, so I’ll give you that.
As for the rest of your comments…Families we’re friends with have made Telluride, Rockygrass, Folks Fest, Pickin’ in the Pines, Four Corners and Meadowgrass all part of their family traditions on an annual basis, and are enriched for it. That’s just in the immediate area.
Yes, sometimes we’re exposed to things we might prefer to not be exposed to. That’s true at festivals, the supermarket, and walking down the street. As parents, and humans, we use those opportunities to teach, to guide and to mentor our kids, discussing choices and consequences. I don’t see the value in shielding my kids from things.
If things were so lax it allowed a set of people to run rough-shod over the rules, that’s addressable in other ways than banning a genre of music that has been embraced by the traditional luminaries you revere (go ahead…ask Del about Jamgrass).
Oh, I can’t stand disrespectful people. Like coming on to a forum dedicated to Planet Bluegrass festivals and insulting their biggest event of the year and the bands that helped make that festival what it is.
Not to say your opinions aren’t valid. They are, but there are better ways to present them.
The origin of Jamgrass is debatable, but I think most can agree that New Grass Revival, Old and in the Way and John Hartford planted the first seeds. Telluride has been around for 41 years. 41 years as a family friendly, largely Jamgrass festival, and String Cheese has played at several of those, including 2013.
Believe it or not, Telluride is run so well that the inclusion of a band like SCI didn’t detract from the family friendly vibe. Maybe you should be mad at the promoters of the Huck Finn Jubilee instead of mad at the band or fans who follow SCI.
This year I made it to Horning’s Hideout for the North West String Summit for the first time. That is most definitely a jamgrass festival and easily one of the most family friendly fests I have attended. Yonder, one of the biggest jamgrass bands in the country, throws that party and plays three nights at it. Your understanding of the bands that play jamgrass and the fans they attract would have that festival as a train-wreck and not one to bring children to, but it’s fantastic. On more than one occasion, the MC, Pastor Tim, came out on stage between songs and interrupted the show to have the audience look around them for a lost child and that child was always found within a minute.
So don’t go around insulting jamgrass and its fans. Believe it or not, you can’t judge all of us by the few. Just like I won’t judge all traditional bluegrass fans based on one guy making rude comments on an internet forum.
:cheers