So you wanna say that you skied this or that at your favorite resort? Silverton will not invite you. Have an attitude that you ski great? Silverton does not want you? Missing manners on a ski resort? Do not come to Silverton!!!! This location high in the San Juan Mountains of south west Colorado, say 12,000 feet, okay add some more, maybe a thousand feet or so, will only want the best of the best skiers/snowboarders with the best of the best attitudes.
At this ski, well not really a resort, as the lodge is a tent, the gear stash is a former school bus, and the lift, well there is only one. An ex-con will fit here, as the shuttle bus states “Correctional Facility”, and the drivers DO NOT RESPECT anyone that is in the way. Honk, Honk! Right on Silverton, keep your destination this way, keep your ski not resort this way, keep the ultimate BAD ASS terrain NON GROOMED, and keep the right to kick out BOZOS!!!
Avalanches. Death first, soiled undies second, and third, all to be on call. ALL skiers/snowboarders at Silverton MUST carry beacons, shovels, and probes first, as the lifties will check to see that you have it, and then look at your lift ticket second. Slides here are a nearly daily thing, so a serious attitude MUST be taken. After that, lines upon lines of the most breathtaking scenes, really not real, will tease your vision. Did some one slip you purple haze? Shrooms? Are you really here? Silverton seems to be past a real experience when skiing here. Need more of this ski feel here, as an addiction will be engraved into your skiing soul. This is the only real drug needed, no burning necessary, as lungs and thighs will get the burn from the inside out on Silverton’s lines of white steep chutes.
Silverton. Real. Not for the talker, only for the real serious.