Silverton Mountain

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Silverton, Colorado, a town with and ski area with only one chairlift and a renovated milk truck for transportation.

It is still dumping snow across the west. Tahoe is getting hammered with feet upon feet of snow. Grand Targhee, Snowbird, Silverton Mountain, Alyeska—they're all getting snow. Winter isn't over—get out and ski powder while you still can.

The only thing better than Silverton? Seven of them. The legendary lift-accessed backcountry op has offered heli-skiing for two years now, and for $999, you get a hell of a lot more terrain than the guys using the lift.

The Ski Area Citizens' Coalition, an organization that ranks ski resorts' environmental practices, calls Colorado's Silverton Mountain a "little ski area that rocks." The mountain has one lift—which services over 1,800 acres of expert-only terrain and accesses over 3,000 feet of vertical drop—no grooming, no snowmaking, no cut trails, and no beginner runs. We spoke to co-owner Aaron Brill while riding the chairlift about Silverton's reuse and recycle motto.

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With the exception of Whistler Blackcomb, no other resort comes close to matching Jackson for easy access to back- and sidecountry lines.

Colorado’s Silverton Mountain offers heli drops from $150

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