What did you do yesterday? In the unlikely event that you answered “skiing,” you’d be in good company with the guide team at Silverton Mountain, Colorado, which, on October 14, 2025, ventured uphill ...

This tiny town in southwestern Colorado is a hub for backcountry skiing. Ouray is a backcountry ski paradise with access to both the all-terrain Telluride Ski Resort and the more advanced Silverton ...

SILVERTON, Colo. -- As avalanche-control blasts echoed in a narrow valley walled off by towering, jagged whitecaps, a guide stretched one hand high above her head while cupping the other around her ...

SILVERTON – When the pandemic shut down the world in 2020, Griff Pinto was 8 and made a big decision: It was time to go all-in on skiing. Five years later, the 13-year-old from Silverton is a ...

The 22,000 acres of new ski terrain open at Silverton Mountain last season thanks to its new Heli Board/Heli Ski operation was a no-brainer for our Best New Ski Terrain award in Westword‘s 2011 Best ...

Silverton, Colo. — There is no easy way down. There’s not supposed to be. Just over the edge of my ski tips was Silverton Mountain, North America’s first new ski area in almost two decades and ...

Ouray is a backcountry ski paradise with access to both the all-terrain Telluride Ski Resort and the more advanced Silverton Mountain. There's an in-town ski hill with 75 vertical feet, perfect for ...