Why I Love Highway 70

[12ersRule]

One option is changing careers. I really want to do wilderness therapy but at age 40 I'm not sure if I can pull that off.

You absolutely can do it! I have a friend who was a stay at home mom until she became a widow at 45. And got a new career as a financial adviser. Had to take a pretty brutal test to do it.

[SkaredShtles]

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Already working on it but might have to do the job temporarily until I can get everyting else arranged.

Temporarily is even easier from home.

[TallGrass]

Again, I wouldn't pave it, rather treat it like the Alpine Loop 4x4 thru roads that are self-limiting as to what vehicles can pass, and at most make or sign the last turnout/around before any crux bottleneck (it widens before the N.Eye tunnel at a "window" of rock.

So...kinda like it is now? The BWR is open to off-road vehicles.

The BWR is open? Since when?

Gate Location: Boulder Wagon Road at Yankee Doodle Lake
National Forest System Road (NFSR) Route Numbers: NFSR 501
Status Updated December 15, 2017: Permanent Closure
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/arp/recr ... rdb5339508

"In the county staff presentation, it was estimated that repairs to the tunnel, the road — including the deteriorating trestles that support it in places — and a required environmental review could add up to nearly $10.5 million."
Feb 2014: http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-coun ... l-24-years

When I was there last (ca. 2011), there was a big tubular locked gate where it intersected the rail grade high up (Google map satellite, appears that gate's be regularly circumvented ). When I looked into it, Boulder (county) and some USFS staff were keeping the JPWPA bill from being implemented. I crossed from I-25 to the west side of the divide via RMNP and planned on coming back via Rollins only to find it gated off so had to go down to I-70 to get back to the eastern side. Just officially open the BWR, IMHO, as roads can thread Wilderness just fine as the Alpine Loop and others have proven.

Opening the BWR would bypass all the historical rail remnants (N.Eye tunnel, trestles, etc.) and presumably cheaper to do, whether just unlocking the gates or also doing some modest grading, fill, and or water diversion in some sections. Roads 501 (west side) and 117 (east side) already bypass the closed tunnels and other rail remnants, and come within about 1,000' of each other.

I'm not sure there's enough room for two cars to safely pass in there, and there's also not a lot of room to expand the outer wall without simply taking it off.

Doesn't need to be. It's like one-lane bridges that suffice because traffic is so sparse. Again, the Alpine Loop also has many places where two cars can't pass so someone has to back up to a wider part if they don't first see them ahead and wait for them to pass. Zoom in on satellite image and you'll see cars and trucks for an idea of scale.

[HikesInGeologicTime]

The BWR is open? Since when?...When I was there last (ca. 2011), there was a big tubular locked gate where it intersected the rail grade high up...

When I was last up there (ca. 2015), there was no mention of a full road closure, at least not from the west side...the only warning was at the sign at the western end of the road, which refers to the impassable Needle's Eye. There was an option to bypass the Needle's Eye and reconnect to the BWR, though there was a sign in front of that route warning that it was off-road vehicles only. I have no clue who put up the sign, however, so it might very well have been some, uh, independent thinkers.

Just officially open the BWR, IMHO, as roads can thread Wilderness just fine as the Alpine Loop and others have proven.

I actually agree. My problem is the murmurs of going the $10.5M route and making it accessible to everyone, because I, admittedly selfishly, would prefer not to have one of my favorite hiking corridors going back to childhood trampled by the surge of drivers eager to cross the Divide on something other than I-70.

[Bombay2Boulder]

I feel like I've been hearing more about companies eliminating their lax work from home policies, yeah? It's either come back to the office or find a new job; it's a secretive way to lay people off too cause some people work from home in other states.

Yeah, I don't get it. I work in telecom and what we do makes remote work possible and yet many of the companies in it have strict policies against working from home. It's really baffling and weird.

And yes, it is a nice way to get a few easy layoffs too because people will quit or wait to get laid off after they refuse.

As a fellow in Telecom, I absolutely don't get the companies who force people to work at their office. Their absolutely no need for me to come to the office physically, especially when I will be more productive if I am remote. Ideally I would like to move to a mountain town and work from there. Oh, a man can dream!

[SkaredShtles]

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As a fellow in Telecom, I absolutely don't get the companies who force people to work at their office. Their absolutely no need for me to come to the office physically, especially when I will be more productive if I am remote. Ideally I would like to move to a mountain town and work from there. Oh, a man can dream!

Just demand it. This is a management issue, not a technical issue.

[Jon Frohlich]

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As a fellow in Telecom, I absolutely don't get the companies who force people to work at their office. Their absolutely no need for me to come to the office physically, especially when I will be more productive if I am remote. Ideally I would like to move to a mountain town and work from there. Oh, a man can dream!

Just demand it. This is a management issue, not a technical issue.

You can demand all you want. In many cases they'll just find someone else.

Believe me in my case I already tried.

[SkaredShtles]

<snip>You can demand all you want. In many cases they'll just find someone else.

Believe me in my case I already tried.

Sounds like a shitty job. You'll be good to get rid of it.

[12ersRule]

99% of jobs are shitty.

[SkaredShtles]

99% of jobs are shitty.

Granted.

I can tell you from direct experience, however, that WfH makes a shitty job WAY less shitty.

[SchralpTheGnar]

As a software director who has set a no working from home policy, I can tell you why, it's because I don't trust you and I want you to be unhappy working for me, the more I lower your self esteem the less I have to pay you and the less likely you'll have any confidence to leave. With that being said, I'm actually working from home today. Merry Christmas!!

[Jon Frohlich]

As a software director who has set a no working from home policy, I can tell you why, it's because I don't trust you and I want you to be unhappy working for me, the more I lower your self esteem the less I have to pay you and the less likely you'll have any confidence to leave. With that being said, I'm actually working from home today. Merry Christmas!!

Points for honesty?