Those who’ve been: how’s CO during Labor Day?

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Have an opportunity to go to a buddy’s vacation place in Mountain Village for Labor Day. Invite is open ended, as long as I want to stay. Just did a quick look on OnX and OMG it’s trail heaven. Is it crazy busy there during Labor Day?
 
Have an opportunity to go to a buddy’s vacation place in Mountain Village for Labor Day. Invite is open ended, as long as I want to stay. Just did a quick look on OnX and OMG it’s trail heaven. Is it crazy busy there during Labor Day?
I’m confused by the question. Is there something to think about here?
 
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take me with you?
 
See I’m spoiled by living in San Diego for 40 years and never needing to take a vacation. But after a quick phone call it seems like I’d be dumb not to go. Imogene here we come!

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21 hours from Chicago to Ouray hasn’t stopped me from going at least once a summer for the last 11 years…
 
School has started in most places, it's fairly quiet.
 
'Crowded' is all relative. Having grown up in Colorado in the 70s and 80s (my mother and me on Black Bear in about '73- this 40 is still in the family) and wheeled those trails since then, it's crowded every single day.

But by the standards of the Californians who 'discovered' it in the 80s, it's positively empty.

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'Crowded' is all relative. Having grown up in Colorado in the 70s and 80s (my mother and me on Black Bear in about '73- this 40 is still in the family) and wheeled those trails since then, it's crowded every single day.

But by the standards of the Californians who 'discovered' it in the 80s, it's positively empty.

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That is one of the best Cruiser pics I’ve ever seen! That’s a BadA$$ mom right there!
 
Late summer and early fall in Colorado is the best. Go.
Wait, it's actually terrible. I'll happily re-imburse your party $100 a night and house sit for you for that timeframe to make sure nothing happens to the place in your absence. Just to save you the pain and agony of a terrible place at the worst time.
 
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