View Full Version : SILVERTON WOW !! a feet of powder on sept 10, 2003
Frankontour
09-10-2003, 07:56 PM
This is not fair for us easterners !
Can't believe this
http://www.telemarktips.com/TeleNews13.html
kmrnskier
09-10-2003, 09:20 PM
Thaaaaaaaats just not right
TheOctopus
09-10-2003, 10:30 PM
Schweeeeet. That's the real deal.
elwood
09-11-2003, 07:49 AM
Damn.. I used to live in Durango too... Wish I was there now.
Castlerock
09-11-2003, 07:59 AM
That place is way up there. The chair lift tops out at 12,300 and you hike up to 13,300! That makes for early snow.
It is a unique concept. I hope they can make it economically viable
Frankontour
09-11-2003, 08:05 AM
Castlerock:
It is a unique concept. I hope they can make it economically viable Good question... with 40 guests by day. But if they can run from september to may without snowmaking, they have great chances ! I'm not sure, but Marc on FTO said that they opened the chairlift, yesterday. I thought people simply hiked...
Castlerock
09-11-2003, 08:15 AM
I bet those pictures were taken way up the hill, well above the chairlift. I doubt they were open for "business", that will wait till November. When the next high pressure cell hits the West. The snow will be gone and the alpine flowers will have a field day!
It sure looked great though
Ah - Castlerock... the voice of reason...
Your right about the flowers..
Frankontour
09-11-2003, 08:25 AM
According to the press release, I think they want to open on early october. I was wondering where was the chairlift, I admit. Interesting : 1900' lift serviced and 1000' for the powder seekers like us.
I love the concept, it's exactly the concept I would bring into a ski area. I knew about this ski area after have talked of my conception of what a mountain was. Somebody told me : this exists... with a link to Silverton's website.
So It's another ski area in the list of the early october potential openings. It's incredible how this season is well started to begin very early.
A-basin, Silverton and Copper to challenge Loveland in Colorado. Tenney and Mt St-Bruno to challenge Killington in the east, not counting Woodbury !
yet another proof that absense makes the heart grow fonder...
The snow is always fresher...elsewhere, especially from a right coast point of view.
If you think about it...
We could be skiing in a months time... Not such a long time to wait...
BladeGirl
09-11-2003, 09:42 AM
Frankontour:
This is not fair for us easterners !
Can't believe this
http://www.telemarktips.com/TeleNews13.html White everywhere and Wow, thats thick! Kinda makes my heart ache to look at it. Yeah, DMC, we could be skiing in a month, and it will be fun, but it will also be on one or two lift-served intermediate trails packed with hundreds of other skiers. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do, but Silverton is looking really, really good right now.
-BG
pepperdawg
09-11-2003, 01:54 PM
I spent last weekend in CO (unfortunalty not in the Mtns, but in Boulder), but did manage to get up to the Longs Peak/ Estes Park area on Monday morning before my flight out of DIA....
Standing staring up at the 14,256ft peak (with many visable patched of white gold) from a road about 12,000 was bringing my head/soul into the right frame of mind....standing there on a total bluebird day, with a srong wind blowing maybe 50 degress out , all I could smell was cool dry air and the pines.......I honestly felt like I should be strapping into my bindings....
Nothing like being in the mountains....even if for a short time....
Winter is coming...
:snowflakes:
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