so far I've got 15 days in this year, Id say maybe half of those days I actually had a really good time. Most of those were the week before Christmas and few other scattered days.
Yesterday we had gotten so sick of the lines in Steamboat ( snow was terrible too) we decided to snow shoe some and then we rode our boards back to the car (very vanilla type back country riding) but 100 X more enjoyable than the day before.. plus I felt like I got some honest exercise..
Here if we leave around 0630 its a 2 hour drive, worst I have ever had was 3.5 hours (around 100 miles)
I hope the broncos do well next year because when they do well it makes a 20 % dip in the amount of traffic.