Sports Authority Ski & Snowboard/SNIAGRAB line forming!: A look at the annual tent city

Mmmm. GoGurt.

The world's largest Ski & Snowboard Sale at Sports Authority starts at 8 a.m. Saturday morning. So, you have a few days to prepare your wish list and walk right in Saturday morning, right? No. As of Sunday night, the "Sportscastle" had its first set of tent dwellers, lining up for the largely discounted inventory, eagerly awaiting the door's opening... in about a week.

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The numbered hands of those lucky enough to live in a tent for a week.

Around 10 p.m. Sunday night, four Colorado Christian University students began setting up their living areas. Board games, cards, computers and GoGurt. An all night rager, perhaps? Not so much. These few are awaiting SNIAGRAB. (For newcomers, that's "BARGAINS" spelled backwards.) Sports Authority's annual sale that begins in a little less than a week. That's roughly 130 hours to you and me, kids.

So what would compel a group of college students to live in a tent on Broadway, you ask?

Snowboard boots.

Photo by Johnny Molfetta

The group outside of their humble abodes.