Silverton Mountain Spring Pass

Has anyone seen this shit?!?!

http://silvertonmountain.com/shop/season-passes/unguided-season-pass/

$149, includes 3 days at Smugg's & 3 days at MRG... Plus, if you do get out to Silverton next Spring, you get free skiing, $2 beers, and a $39 Heli Drop.

I saw it yesterday and know of at least one friend who is jumping on it.

Silverton looks very hard to get to and lodging looks scarce.

The 3 days and summgs/MR are worth the 150 bucks

campgottagopee wrote

The 3 days and summgs/MR are worth the 150 bucks

Yea- I thing I would have to look at it as a pass sans Silverton

PeeTex wrote

Silverton looks very hard to get to and lodging looks scarce.

I've stayed and skied in Silverton before, but thanks for the opinion, I guess.

Silverton from some completely anonymous guy on Vimeo.

(Most of that skiing is my brother)

Good Tunes along with a couple of jump turns.  Silverton is on my list.

tjf1967 wrote

Good Tunes along with a couple of jump turns.  Silverton is on my list.

It's awesome. I already bought an IKON pass, but with the Smugg's/MRG days and the $39 Heli drop, I'm now thinking about nixing my fall trip and taking a huge (4-5 week) skiing road trip in March/April. Hey nepa, if you're reading this, can you give me a tour of Mission Ridge?

MC2 5678F589 wrote

PeeTex wrote

Silverton looks very hard to get to and lodging looks scarce.

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(Most of that skiing is my brother)

Were did you stay and how did you get there?
No snark - genuiney interested. I have thought about it but always end up at Alta/Bird

Flew into Phoenix (my brother was living in Scottsdale at the time). Long drive to Silverton, stayed here:

https://www.trianglemotel.com

From there, we took the beautiful drive past Ouray to Telluride. Then back to Durango Mountain Resort (formerly Purgatory), then back to Durango to party with some of my brother's friends that lived there. Then back to Phoenix by way of the Grand Canyon.

Drove from Telluride to Albuquerque via Ouray and Durango last winter.  Was with my ski buddy who lives in Albuquerque.  I opted to fly home from ABQ on Southwest.  My two other friends on that trip flew back east from Montrose.  We all skied a week at Taos before driving to Telluride for a few days on the MCP.

On the drive we did a quick drive through the town of Silverton.  My ski buddy has stayed there with his cross country ski club.  He likes the town.  On a blue sky day, the scenery is fantastic.

Met up in Telluride with an Aussie who was spending several weeks in Utah and Colorado.  He was hoping to do some heli skiing in Colorado but wasn't the season for that.  Skiing at Silverton was on his itinerary for his first foray into southwest Colorado.  He's done backcountry and side country skiing, hiking, and mountain biking all over the world.  By the way . . . he's about 70 years old.

I saw this posted on SkiVTl. Black out dates limit MRG to mid-week non-holiday only:
http://silvertonmountain.com/shop/season-passes/unguided-season-pass/2018-19-season-pass-partner-blackouts/

Still not bad. BUT a Mad Card isn't much more money and has zero blackouts. The Smuggs tickets are the winner here, IMO, with only holiday black outs. I wouldn't recommend buying this for MRG only unless you exclusively ski mid-week non-holiday.

That’s an 8 to 9 hr drive in good weather. Even Colorado Springs is 5 to 6 hours. There is a small regional airport about 90 minutes South and that might work.

I’m sure it can be great skiing - but very isolated.

riverc0il wrote

I saw this posted on SkiVTl. Black out dates limit MRG to mid-week non-holiday only:
http://silvertonmountain.com/shop/season-passes/unguided-season-pass/2018-19-season-pass-partner-blackouts/

Still not bad. BUT a Mad Card isn't much more money and has zero blackouts. The Smuggs tickets are the winner here, IMO, with only holiday black outs. I wouldn't recommend buying this for MRG only unless you exclusively ski mid-week non-holiday.

I had missed that about Mad.  Makes total sense, Mad has no use for more skiers on any weekend when the snow is decent.