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[Kicking Horse]

Silverton Mt is the first to open for the ski season




(images linked from the silverton web site)

edit: The lift is running

This post has been edited by pusher: 04 September 2004 - 03:26 PM

[ODDfreakPERSON]

why do i have to live in the east

[Allan]

Why do I live in the west!!! Hehehe the question should be... why does my mountain stop at 6800 feet!! :)

[snowboardguy]

Was the mountain open to the public? Or just patrol?

[Kicking Horse]

They were running the lift and giving the Guided Tours (only thing they can do until next season) (05-06)

[ODDfreakPERSON]

why is that?

[Kicking Horse]

[KZ]

That hurts to see. Only 2 more months :)

[floridaskier]

How do they have that much snow in early September?? Thats insane

[snowboardguy]

Thats what happens in the top of the rockies!!

[SkiBachelor]

Silverton Mountain isn't actually in the Rockies, but rather the San Juan Mountains. :)

[liftmech]

Well, that's true, but the San Juans are a sub-range of the Rockies, like the Sawatch/Collegiate range that's near my house. The Rockies as a whole run from northern New Mexico to almost Alaska.
As far as snow goes- the San Juan region always gets more snow than the rest of the state; if it were based purely on elevation Copper and the rest of Summit County would be open as well. Except Keystone- they'd have a light dusting

[TomK]

ODDfreakPERSON, on Sep 5 2004, 09:22 PM, said:

why is that?
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It has to do with their permit from the forest service. Silverton is a little sketchy terrain-wise and with avalanch hazards so they only get to do guided skiing for the first couple of years of operation. It's a very different business model they are trying out there.

More info here
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-ski-534493-silve...in_ski_resort-i
http://www.onthesnow...1435/index.html

and
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthr...light=silverton

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthr...light=silverton