DENVER -- The morning rush hour was a mess, as expected, due to slick roads and blowing snow.

A motorist was rescued after the car they were driving slid off Speer Boulevard and landed upside down on the Cherry Creek bike path.

The accident happened about 8 a.m. at 11th Avenue.

The motorist was rushed to nearby Denver Health Medical Center for treatment.

Average snow amounts ranged locations 2 to 4 inches, with some higher amounts from the northern suburbs of Denver. Snow continued to fall through the morning rush hour.

The commute in the Denver area was wet and slow. Nearly 80 CDOT trucks were tending the roads, spokesman Gene Towne said.

"We have just about everything out that we can run, and they've been out all night," he said.

Chains were required for all commercial vehicles along I-70 through Mt. Vernon Canyon and over Floyd Hill, over Loveland Pass, at the Eisenhower Tunnel and on Vail Pass.

Steamboat ski resort reported 11 inches of new snow by Thursday morning. The Aspen area, Vail and Steamboat Springs all reported nearly 10 inches of snow. Along the Front Range, 6 inches fell in Estes Park and 4 inches in Boulder, coating cars with snow overnight and leaving slush on roadways before rush hour.

The Colorado Department of Transportation reported icy, snowpacked, slushy conditions in the high country and a wet, slow commute in the Denver area, where 78 of the department's nearly 100 trucks were tending the roads, spokesman Gene Towne said.

"We have just about everything out that we can run, and they've been out all night," he said.

Drifts were so large on Horsefly Mesa near Ridgway that an eight-man construction crew was unable to leave their work site. Sheriff's deputies on snowmobiles rescued the men and checked the area for other strand people, Beckman said.

Most of the Western Slope mountain ranges were under a snow and blowing snow advisory.

The statewide snowpack Thursday was 99 percent of average, ranging from 123 percent of average in the Yampa and White river basin in northwest Colorado to 42 percent in the Upper Rio Grande in the southern part of the state.

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