I-70 as it turns North at Copper Mountain Copper Mountain, 2.5 miles from Vail Pass | Image: Wikimedia Commons For many Colorado skiers, the weekend begins long before the first chair. It begins somewhere between Golden and the Eisenhower Tunnel, crawling westbound on Interstate 70. On peak winter days in Colorado, more than 50,000 vehicles pack the mountain corridor near the Eisenhower Tunnel. While the numbers help explain the bottleneck, the …
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