I'm moving to Colorado in 6 weeks..

hotrodharley

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Wait until you drive north of Ft. Collins past Cheyenne and see the gates where they close the interstate for blizzards. You know you are in deep doo doo there sometimes. I would rather have studded snow tires on all winter and never need them than the reverse. Of course I'm old and I'm the one usually pulling everybody else's ass out of the barrow ditches.
 

anzohaze

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I am going to be back near Denali National Park. It's off the grid totally and a walk in from the Old Parks Highway. The Kenai is where everyone really wants to go. Stunning beauty.
That one Alaskan show with Otz the backwoods living cattle etc. That mountain range in land is also beautiful. There's a guy on this forum I don't remember his name but he would show pictures of him super high on mountains smoking a bowl n shit. I would love to go out to the top of the mountain smoke a bowl or two relax and just stare off into the sky one day it will come true especially not having to worry about finding marijuana in Alaska
 

hotrodharley

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That one Alaskan show with Otz the backwoods living cattle etc. That mountain range in land is also beautiful. There's a guy on this forum I don't remember his name but he would show pictures of him super high on mountains smoking a bowl n shit. I would love to go out to the top of the mountain smoke a bowl or two relax and just stare off into the sky one day it will come true especially not having to worry about finding marijuana in Alaska
Come see me and you won't have to look. I'll be near Healy. Around the 120 Mile Marker on the OPH.
 

atxlsgun

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Headed south to Texas. The company I was working for in AK was bought out and then the FTC said they couldn't have it because it would leave them a monopoly. Go figure. We had to get new jobs. I had less than 2 years to go to retire so I took that transfer. God I hated Texas and New Mexico is barely better. My bud just got busted for a "commercial" grow across the line in Texas. They charged him with 70 pounds of marijuana - they removed the plants from the containers and weighed them with the wet root balls and dirt and everything. Charged him with having 16 ounces of "hash oil" and it was pure liniment. He's a MMA fighter (or a lifelong trainee for them in reality) and hurts a lot. 70 pounds. He's facing a stiff prison sentence in Texas. Fuckthat place.
Thats how they do it but hey it ain't gon stay moist forever by the time that trial come around shit should be nice and dry

5280
 

ttystikk

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Wha? The average high temp in Evans in Winter is about 42, it might get in the teens every now and then and rarely below zero.
Heet is just expensive isopropyl alcohol.

I never once had cold related car problems. Never used a block heater and never had cold battery problems.
I have driven through full on blizzards with no chains. I have a truck with 4wd and my wife has an awd car. Neither of us have ever owned chains. If you drive in the mountains on the reg it is good to have chains.

We almost never get snow on top of snow. The mountains are a different story.
I have played golf in Fort Collins in every month of the year. It will hit 60 today.

I do not know about the Greeley area, but in the Denver area the few guys I know that still sell weed sell 1/8ths for about $40.
I can get med weed in stores for around $150 an ounce that is very good. I haven't done that for months because like every one else, I grow.

I love Fort Collins. Hot ass college girls and shit loads of great food.
Dood- stfu, it's growing fast enough as it is!
 

ttystikk

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Wait until you drive north of Ft. Collins past Cheyenne and see the gates where they close the interstate for blizzards. You know you are in deep doo doo there sometimes. I would rather have studded snow tires on all winter and never need them than the reverse. Of course I'm old and I'm the one usually pulling everybody else's ass out of the barrow ditches.
They have those gates at the north exit to Ft Collins, and for good reason. Mother Nature likes to have a lil fun blowing semis off the freeway now and again...
 

ttystikk

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Hey, wasn't that Loveland Pass ski area he shot thru, all crossed up at sixty? Snowspeeding is FUN, especially when the car is so capable.

I used to do it with a '79 'Nissan, by Datsun' (that's what the nameplate said, lol!) 280Z with a manual trans, no back seats and bald tires. I had just as much fun as the guy in the video above, only I was having it at fifteen mph...
 

anzohaze

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Headed south to Texas. The company I was working for in AK was bought out and then the FTC said they couldn't have it because it would leave them a monopoly. Go figure. We had to get new jobs. I had less than 2 years to go to retire so I took that transfer. God I hated Texas and New Mexico is barely better. My bud just got busted for a "commercial" grow across the line in Texas. They charged him with 70 pounds of marijuana - they removed the plants from the containers and weighed them with the wet root balls and dirt and everything. Charged him with having 16 ounces of "hash oil" and it was pure liniment. He's a MMA fighter (or a lifelong trainee for them in reality) and hurts a lot. 70 pounds. He's facing a stiff prison sentence in Texas. Fuckthat place.
My partner was busted last year. 65lbs 1900 plants he got 5 years total. Has to serve 85% of time and he was in for almost a year before sentencing so he has lil less then 3 years now I think I would have to look back to be accurate
 

ttystikk

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Wait until you drive north of Ft. Collins past Cheyenne and see the gates where they close the interstate for blizzards. You know you are in deep doo doo there sometimes. I would rather have studded snow tires on all winter and never need them than the reverse. Of course I'm old and I'm the one usually pulling everybody else's ass out of the barrow ditches.
Here's the thing- the Colorado in your memories is the Colorado as it was then. The last twenty years have seen the climate on the front range plains change enough that it's now more like northern New Mexico was back then.

We don't get the blizzards I remember from my youth, it doesn't get as cold or stay cold as long. We used to get the odd seventy degree day in January- now they're all but routine.

The mountains are still plenty cold, at least overnight.
 

hotrodharley

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Here's the thing- the Colorado in your memories is the Colorado as it was then. The last twenty years have seen the climate on the front range plains change enough that it's now more like northern New Mexico was back then.

We don't get the blizzards I remember from my youth, it doesn't get as cold or stay cold as long. We used to get the odd seventy degree day in January- now they're all but routine.

The mountains are still plenty cold, at least overnight.
We called that section of the Front Range "The Banana Belt" anyway in winter.
 

Grandpapy

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Here's the thing- the Colorado in your memories is the Colorado as it was then. The last twenty years have seen the climate on the front range plains change enough that it's now more like northern New Mexico was back then.

We don't get the blizzards I remember from my youth, it doesn't get as cold or stay cold as long. We used to get the odd seventy degree day in January- now they're all but routine.

The mountains are still plenty cold, at least overnight.
As a kid I remember Pikes Peak always covered snow, I was surprised it was so dry last year when I visited. It didn't look right.:lol:
 

ttystikk

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We called that section of the Front Range "The Banana Belt" anyway in winter.
It's still living up to that nickname in every way, only even more so now than you may remember. The scary thing is that the climate has changed so noticeably in just my adult lifetime.

I mean, it's December and it didn't even Fucking freeze last night here.
 

whitebb2727

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Hey, wasn't that Loveland Pass ski area he shot thru, all crossed up at sixty? Snowspeeding is FUN, especially when the car is so capable.

I used to do it with a '79 'Nissan, by Datsun' (that's what the nameplate said, lol!) 280Z with a manual trans, no back seats and bald tires. I had just as much fun as the guy in the video above, only I was having it at fifteen mph...
I love it. When I was younger me and my dad would race outside after the first snow to play.

I live in the mountains and I will take my little fwd mazda where most people won't go with awd or 4x4.

I do keep a set of polypropylene thermals and blanket and set of chains in the vehicles.
 

hotrodharley

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It's still living up to that nickname in every way, only even more so now than you may remember. The scary thing is that the climate has changed so noticeably in just my adult lifetime.

I mean, it's December and it didn't even Fucking freeze last night here.
Dude, we have huge swaths of permafrost in Alaska thawing and belching methane from it being trapped in it since the last Ice Age at the least. Woolly mammoth tusks everywhere. Villages on the Bering Sea being relocated because they were sliding into the sea. Climate change is very real. My daughter lives in Portland. Record rainfall there and that is saying something for the Pacific NW. Especially since it's been in drought!
 

dannyboy602

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I know you think I suck because of some comment I made in TC one day when I was drunk..I've been growing for 11 years (for a living) I literally have hundreds of grows under my belt, and a ton posted here on RIU under odanksta and MOG..I have posted 70% of my grows since 08. There is a point where there isn't a whole lot more to learn. It's a plant, not rocket science. Yes y'alls environment sucks for indoors and outdoors. Regardless I am not growing for anybody else so I could care less about my attitude. But to say "every coloradan" knows more then me, first is a cocky generalization, second it is simply rude and false. There is no secret hidden growing techniques that are Exclusive to Colorado growers only. As your statement goes to prove my point further.

When it comes to growing you reap what you sow. You get back what you put in.

My old user name.. I wrote this thread 7 years ago with a buddy. If anyone wants to question my knowledge

https://www.rollitup.org/t/coco-growers-unite.163510/
About the only thing different in CO is the indigenous soils and the humidity. I know a grower who cures in a few days and the stuff flies out the door.
It isn't rocket science you're right about that. Shit I could train a fourth grader to do it.
The rents ARE through the roof, but the thing that finally did me in was I think the whole friggin place in built on Indian bones...everywhere I turned
I was met with bad luck and grief. On a good note the people in Denver are some of the kindest I've met anywhere. I will go back to visit but I'm bringing a talisman to ward off the evil spirits.
On a side note I did just get approved for my AZ med card. Yay me. The Mexican shwag here is just awful.
 

brimck325

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the old vw bug was the ultimate snow machine, they would go through 3-4' of snow no problem. ah' the good old days! i might hit colorado next year hunting, hopefully.
 

ttystikk

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Dude, we have huge swaths of permafrost in Alaska thawing and belching methane from it being trapped in it since the last Ice Age at the least. Woolly mammoth tusks everywhere. Villages on the Bering Sea being relocated because they were sliding into the sea. Climate change is very real. My daughter lives in Portland. Record rainfall there and that is saying something for the Pacific NW. Especially since it's been in drought!
Wow, that's really something... I want me a Woolly tusk, now!

I understand that climate change is happening faster in the arctic than anywhere else on Earth right now. Noticing what I have around here (just north of the 40th parallel) and extrapolating for up north is a sobering exercise.

I have an idea; let all the fossil fuel producers and burners pay a tax that represents the environmental damage their products and the use of them cause... I bet that would level the playing field between them and renewables like right NOW!
 
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