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Guided hut-to-hut journey in Colorado's San Juan Mountains offers sublime days skiing in near solitude, with cozy nights and camaraderie

A snowy journey in the San Juan Mountains yields sublime skiing, cozy nights and a serene, nearly spiritual, encounter with nature.

TravelAwaits May.10.2021 It’s easy to spend a week exploring the San Juan Skyway. It takes you through some of the most majestic scenery and charming towns in southwestern Colorado. A Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway, the 236-mile loop starts in Durango and leads you to scenic Silverton, through Ouray and Ridgway, then on to Telluride, Dolores, and Manco, all through the heart of the majestic San Juan Mountains. Let’s explore ranch B&Bs, secluded lakes, old gold mines, ghost towns, hot s...

Low snowfall has led to catastrophic conditions around the West. Image credit: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Feb. 26, 2021 From the print edition On the afternoon of Feb. 1, seven friends set out on skis from the Opus Hut, a backcountry lodge located high in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. The sky was blue, the temperatures relatively warm, and a recent series of storms had left a sparkling blanket of fresh snow on the alpine slopes...

A final Colorado Avalanche Information Center report on the slide near Ophic Pass released Sunday provides details on the deadliest Colorado avalanche since 2013 capping a week where 15 backcountry travelers have died in slides across the U.S.

Dec 22, 2020, 6:00 am 7.7K Shares Opus Hut, which is at 11,600 feet above Silverton, is the closest you’re going to get to a full-service refuge in the Pyrenees. (Brett Schrenkengost, provided by Opus Hut) Skiers get all the love with hut trips. Users are quick to share which shelters have the best access to crazy lines and the best backcountry terrain. Or which huts you can link together into a long ski tour. But Colorado has a lot of huts and shelters reachable by incredible — and s...