Kind of a surpise this snow storm… it was supposed to arrive yesterday around 1 pm or so, not 9am. We planned on using a truck, a rear wheel truck, but our driveway is very steep and somewhat long (100 yards or so) and 4-wheel drive vehicles have problems getting up the thing if there is snow – especially when the temperature is warm enough that an ice layer forms underneath the snow – which is what I think happened but… well more later on that.
So the truck HAD to get out of there before the snow starting sticking to the asphalt – or we would be marooned with all our equipment stuck at ‘the shop’ .
So from 9am to 10am Neli and I carried most of the equipment down the stairs (except the 120lb Edge amplifiers and 50? 60? lb Audio Note M10 powersupplies – which we waited until the stairs were icey to carry down the 45 steps…? Guess my brain was frozen too – it is my job to carry down the heavy stuff).
Anyway, with help from one of our stronger friends, Don, we made it out of there (Thanks Don! Davis Duz All), who helped us last year as well, (especially getting the 230lb Edge Reference amps, which we took to the show last year, down the stairs!) .
But in the rush we left a lot of stuff (like clothes) at the homestead to go back and get later…
Whcih we did. Here is what it looked like 3 hours after the last picture, around 5:00pm
This time, even Neli’s Audi A6 did not make it up the driveway, which had about 6 inches of snow at that time.
The roads up in the foothills there were getting pretty bad by that time. So, in a mad dash, we got the pieces to the HRS MXR rack, the Shunyata Hydra M8, the Acoustic Dreams equipment rack pieces, our posters, the Jorma Design poster, clothes, food, HRS nimbus’s and couplers, etc etc etc. – and in 5 trips carried them down the stairs and down 50 yards of snowy driveway an hour later. The snow was coming down at 2 inches/hour and our shoveled stairs were already snowy and drifty but the heck if I was going to shovel them again for the forth time in about 6 hours.
In all a foot of snow was predicted to land on our little adventure by the end of the night. It was snowy in Denver as well but only an inch or two – really not much down in south Denver at the Marriott RMAF show hotel.
Neli’s car, which was not quite sideways in the driveway, did manage to slide around with the front once again facing front and at about 5 mph we made it back into town and an hour later we were back at the hotel.
After supper , we braved the icey winds (which one of us cursed – not me – a large, but not quite infinite, number of times)., and fetched the Meitner CDSD and DCC2 out of the truck – out of the very front and bottom corner of the truck underneath 8 Acoustic Dreams rack shelves and amp stands and….
All this so that could have all of the components up in our room over night, where it was warrrrrmmmer – figuring that they would not like sleeping out in the cold any better than we would.
*sigh* Not to complain or anything but we were happy with the show being a month earlier, around the end of September – the heck with CEDIA.
BTW, our temporary room is the Audio Note / Audio Federation room next door to our main room. I’ll have to take a photo of this room with all of the furniture still in it, which looks quite strange in comparision to what the room WILL look like in a day or so when it is full(er) of equipment – Yes, I’ll have to do that, as soon Neli lets me take photos in here …
Looking forward to warmer drier times… we have a box of great albums with us…
and CDs….
Now it is time to get all the rest of the stuff out of the truck and up here – hopefully they will free up our room, our OTHER room, soon … and this afternoon the Marten Coltrane Supreme speakers should arrive from Sweden… and then… music!
