Backcountry Skiing: Silverton, Colorado [3rd Edition]

This atlas features new zones, new tour link-ups, new map and more avalanche info. Adventuring in the San Juans for nearly 20 years, author Josh Kling has put his heart and soul into passing on reliable, professional guidance in this atlas.

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Many mountain ranges don’t have a year-round maintained road passing through them, but the San Juan Range from Durango, through Silverton, to Ouray has three passes. Highway 550 brings powder-hounds through some of Colorado’s most rugged and diverse ski terrain. Silverton Mountain, at the heart of the San Juans, boasts an annual snowfall of 400 inches.

Backcountry Skiing: Silverton offers all the necessary information for skiing the best backcountry spots in the area in a portable book that is extremely durable and lightweight.

This atlas covers the following zones:

Coal Creek & Deer Creek

Snowdon

North Twilight

Turk-Sultan Traverse

Sultan Summit

Sultan North

Kendall Mountain

Turkey Chute

King Solomon

Anvil

Battleship East Side

Battleship North Side

Hut Zone

Paradise

Upper Paradise

Clear Lake

Chattanooga East Side

Chattanooga North Side

Pass West Side

McMillan – US Basin

Cemetery

Red 3

Commodore

Prospect