Go Motion Via the Rocky Mountains

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Go Motion: Breckenridge

Go Motion: Boulder

The Thursday before Halloween found me up super early getting ready for a turbo trip with Go Motion (GoMo to the hip and trendy) to Colorado for some photography and general good times with the fried chicken loving band (no really, they love that stuff). It ends up, the good times came with buckets of snow, ice and road closures. Getting trapped in a blizzard wasn't exactly part of the fun, but it definitely was hard to avoid.

The trip was supposed to be simple. Drive to Breckenridge, sleep, head to Boulder and play another concert that night. The shows were premiers for a snowboard movie that GoMo had music in. Even better, they were sponsored by Pabst Beer. -- Add some icy snow, and a van pulling a trailer and you get a 15+ hour trip to Breck. Mapquest puts it at just over 9 hours. Even the mountains, which were supposed be clear, had plenty of snow and ice on the roads.

With the interstate closed, we could either sit in the van and wait or take small roads into Denver. We chose the latter because, hey, forward progress is still progress. Right?

Visibility was around 100 yards at some times and I cannot count the amount of times we almost got stuck.

Fast forward, We get there, Go Motion plays, It's cold as shit. Neal, Go Motion's sound man, a la W.E.R.D (his DJ pseudonym) rocks a solid set and we eat chicken strips at the bar until 3 or later. We tail it to Frisco where Sarah's (a good friend of Luke and I) cabin and I think I eventually get to bed at 5.

Back up sometime after 8 or so like a dufus (dang internal clock) I packed into Sarah's car and we headed back to the Front Range. She dropped me off at Man Camp, aka Adam's place, aka Pimpin and Crimpin headquarters where I just caught Andrew before he jumped into the shower. Chill.

Andrew and I made it to Boulder and cruised Pearl Street for the afternoon. We topped the afternoon off at Centro before heading to Movement. Movement is Boulder's newest climbing gym and it's a lead climber's dream with a healthy dose of bouldering for good measure. It also sports a dedicated training area, spin classes, yoga classes and weight room. They did this up right on the green level too with 80% of their energy coming from solar power. Word has it that the large facility had a 18$ power bill last month. That's Boss.

Go Motion played another good show on Friday then to my surprise, decided it'd be best to drive back to Omaha that night. We ended up leaving about 4 in the morning. I slept like a princess in a van on the way home.