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Since I will probably be spending a lot of the summer in CO when I can, no indoor pool here in the summer is not going to be that big of an issue now. My condo complex has both indoor-outdoor pools, so I'll still have a place to go some of the time.
But I will really miss the Physical Therapy Center pool. It is 25 yards or meters (?) and has only 4 lanes, but the extended hours (6am-5pm M-F) mean that I rarely ever have to wait for an open lane. It has a neat floor-to ceiling window to the outside, and that is always pleasant.
The new PTC is opening in a brand-new facility, but they will have neither a lap pool nor a therapy pool, which is too bad. I'll cancel my membership when they move, which is supposedly in Feb/March 2011.
It surprises me that the new PTC won't have those. I wonder why? It's certainly a step backward.
CO in summer, Alamogordo in winter? That sounds great, although I'd as soon have something up Cloudcroft-Timberon way for summer.
You are near Durango in CO (when you are there), right? I am wondering if the Valley View Lodge is still up there. It was/is about 5 miles north of Durango on US 550, on the west side of the road.
I've never been sunburned at high elevation, but I have noticed that I tan more rapidly than I do back here!
Wow, you're quite the swimmer. I don't do it often enough to have any expertise, although I basically know how. I wouldn't know where to go to do it if I got the urge. All of the public pools here are closed due to the budget crunch, and I wouldn't want to go there anyway. Lately, my idea of exercise is getting the ice cubes out of a tray.
I have to say, Catman, that I was sunburned, worse than I probably ever have been previously, at Groundhog Lake north of Durango, last month. It's about 9500 feet there. It never went over 72, 73 degrees there, the 2 full days I was there. And it really wasn't 'that' sunny. That said, I was incredibly lit up from a day of trout fishing there. And that was with SPF 30. Back in Las Cruces, at 3900 feet, I have never burnt like I did up at Groundhog Lake.
It surprises me that the new PTC won't have those. I wonder why? It's certainly a step backward.
CO in summer, Alamogordo in winter? That sounds great, although I'd as soon have something up Cloudcroft-Timberon way for summer.
You are near Durango in CO (when you are there), right? I am wondering if the Valley View Lodge is still up there. It was/is about 5 miles north of Durango on US 550, on the west side of the road.
The basic reason is money. Therapy and lap pools are expensive to maintain, and as I understand it, that was why they decided to leave them out.
That's what happens in a poor state and a poor community. Whether someone else will take up the slack remains to be seen. What is left to me after PTC moves into the new facilities is the Family Rec Center...and while it's nice to have that remaining option, it's really not very well taken care of...another instance where having money in a community makes a huge difference. Alamo doesn't have it at this point in time. I imagine the pool will be closed, filled in..and the space converted back to office space. The building is owned by Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center.
I'm 18 miles north of Durango off of 550. The Summit (edge of town) where we used to stay for skiing is gone, along with a lot of the other older stuff.
This is the only thing I found for Valley View....not remembering the original after 25 years, I don't know whether this is a remodeling of the old structure...or is completely new.
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CO in summer, Alamogordo in winter? That sounds great, although I'd as soon have something up Cloudcroft-Timberon way for summer.
Forgot to address this. Yes, if I were not so hung up on skiing (and determined to make up for lost time in the time I have left!), CC or Timberon would be an ideal solution, and I did seriously consider both, as well as Ruidoso.
So, it will eventually end up being about half and half.....3 months during ski season (possibly 4 if the snow is good) and 3 months during the hottest part of the year.
That sounds great for you. I suppose you NEED to be where it is really cold in winter (by my lights). I like to be able to ride my motorcycle year-round, so I don't want to be where it stays cold for protracted periods. There is no colder location than on a motorcycle when it's cold! The wind chill is ferocious. (Not to mention frozen precip on the road!)
Silverton must be beautiful when it is snowy, and cold at 9300' elevation! Does the waterfall between it and Ouray freeze in winter?
That sounds great for you. I suppose you NEED to be where it is really cold in winter (by my lights). I like to be able to ride my motorcycle year-round, so I don't want to be where it stays cold for protracted periods. There is no colder location than on a motorcycle when it's cold! The wind chill is ferocious. (Not to mention frozen precip on the road!)
Silverton must be beautiful when it is snowy, and cold at 9300' elevation! Does the waterfall between it and Ouray freeze in winter?
Yes. The older I get, the more I hate the heat...and the more intolerant of it I get! I don't necessarily have to be in really cold (but I'll get that north of Durango for sure) weather...I just don't want to be hot!! Last winter here was fantastic, the best yet. But it still wasn't that cold.
I don't want warm winters any more, TYVM! I'd prefer days to average 40 or below, but we've had days of 80s in Jan-Feb here. I want to have to wear at least light jackets. I have gone mostly jacketless and shirtsleeves here in the winter My jackets all have cobwebs on them.
As a biker, I can see where you'd prefer the more temperate climates..and if you want temperate, Alamo really does fit the bill other than hot-as-hell summer!
Silverton and Ouray are gorgeous in the winter. I haven't seen either one yet in the summer, but that's for another year! I haven't been to either place since the very early 80s, so I don't remember the waterfall.
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