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SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS (SILVERTON) | COLORADO | UNITED STATES
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GRAND TURK (0) Elevation: 13,200 ft
Just outside Silverton, Grand Turk has nice upper slopes on its three summits. The highest summit is the one that lies to the east. The climb has no real technicalities to speak of. Sultan Mountain (13,368 feet) rises to the north of Grand Turl. Grand Turk offers great skiing for the backcountry enthusiast. The north couloir offers a good ski when conditions are safe.
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Lukelubchenco: February 6, 2012 Uphill: 1,500 ft. | Downhill: 1,500 ft.
Super fun! Where did all this snow come from?! 1 to 2 feet on top of coalbank! Absolutely blower powder conditions, but some definite instability. Skied some 30-35 degree slopes and had a few sloughs ...[view]
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Lukelubchenco: February 1, 2012 Uphill: 1,000 ft. | Downhill: 1,000 ft.
Nice short run into deer creek and hitched back to the summit. Nic's first day in the backcountry and it was a good warm-up for him to get a bit humbled and know what he's got to work on to get after ...[view]READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: January 28, 2012 Uphill: 400 ft. | Downhill: 400 ft.
Went and built a sweet backcountry booter with some friends. Triggered some small avys off the landing patch and heard some wumps, but otherwise a beautiful day. Learned to Backflip!...[view]
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Lukelubchenco: December 15, 2011 Uphill: 1,500 ft. | Downhill: 1,600 ft.
sorry I'm uploading this late, but wanted to share the report anyway. We were psyched on getting out of finals at Fort Lewis and headed for the foot of fresh snow awaiting us on Coalbank pass. We did ...[view]
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Lukelubchenco: December 14, 2011 Uphill: 1,800 ft. | Downhill: 1,800 ft.
Snow was good and a lot more stable than we expected. A bit inverted, with some heavier snow on top of lighter snow, but the clouds cleared and the snow seemed to lighten a bit. Psyched on a great day...[view] 
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Lukelubchenco: April 9, 2011 Uphill: 1,300 ft. | Downhill: 1,300 ft.
Beautiful day in the mountains! Wowzer, I remember why I ski! The snow was great: surfy, fun, deep, etc. Huge windloading and some signs of instability including settled storm snow on top of old crust...[view] 
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Nickmalik: April 2, 2011 Uphill: 2,300 ft. | Downhill: 4,000 ft.
great sunny day, dropped in at 11 am, about 45 degrees F. hard sun cups at the top third of the upper hourglass then it became perfect corn. brown dusty mashed potatoes below the choke. some wet po...[view]
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Lukelubchenco: March 9, 2011 Uphill: 2,000 ft. | Downhill: 2,000 ft.
WARM! Holy spring! A bunch of snow fell earlier this week, but unfortunately the sun is destroying the powder. North aspects are great, everywhere else is super blown out and far too sunny. A little w...[view] READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: February 19, 2011 Uphill: 2,400 ft. | Downhill: 2,400 ft.
Great Snow out there! A bit windy and snowing. Dug a pit and found 30 cm of buried facets below 32 cm of storm snow/soft slab. Not ideal, but once we dropped in, the chute showed great stability and r...[view] 
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Lukelubchenco: February 18, 2011 Uphill: 10 ft. | Downhill: 11,000 ft.
Got invited on a trip with San Juan Ski Company Catskiing that I of course couldn't pass up. We went way behind Engineer Mountain and skied 11 runs of untracked beauty! They've got such a huge expanse...[view] READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: January 28, 2011 Uphill: 1,100 ft. | Downhill: 1,100 ft.
Good snow on north facing aspects... Most other aspects were receiving sun, and lots of it! A very variable snowpack kept us below treeline on two nice chutes with delicious creamy powder. Not windy o...[view] READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: January 14, 2011 Uphill: 2,200 ft. | Downhill: 2,200 ft.
Very nice, but incredibly windy! Started around 1 in the afternoon and attempted the East Apron of Engineer peak, but found it way too windloaded to be safe. FInding this, we turned to a regular spot ...[view] 
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Lukelubchenco: January 6, 2011 Uphill: 1,800 ft. | Downhill: 1,800 ft.
Great day out in the mountains. Sunny, bomber avy conditions and some fun trees and chutes. Hiked up the old mining road to the top and picked out way down the seemingly endless chutes and openings in...[view] 
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Nickmalik: March 15, 2010 Uphill: 1,200 ft. | Downhill: 1,200 ft.
The Ides of MarchThe snotel site at Cascade #2 reported 9 inches in 24 hrs so we headed out for a powder day after 9 straight days of WFR. When we started skinning there was about 4 inches on a crust...[view]READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: March 14, 2010 Uphill: 1,400 ft. | Downhill: 1,400 ft.
Super fun and super stable. We skied the riskiest run I've ever been in and it paid off. Not a slough and the pit even looked solid. Flirty with snow and sun, but mostly snow. Not too much wind but su...[view] READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: March 6, 2010 Uphill: 1,800 ft. | Downhill: 1,800 ft.
Interesting Conditions today. Funky snow... crusty with soft layer on top. Super stable conditions, even of 30 degree+ slopes. Mostly sunny weather conditions granted us a beautiful day. Parked at the...[view]READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: February 28, 2010 Uphill: 1,200 ft. | Downhill: 1,200 ft.
Better conditions than we expected lead to a good but albeit short day. Skiing in the shadow of some of the most attractive lines I've ever seen (since dubbed AK zone) was amazing and a return trip wi...[view]READ MORE
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Rwberman: February 28, 2010 Uphill: 1,500 ft. | Downhill: 1,500 ft.
Great Day exploring an area that was unknown to us... Snow was soft and copious... just how we all like it but all three of us were a little uneasy about the avy conditions... after numerous scouts we...[view]
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Nickmalik: February 26, 2010 Uphill: 800 ft. | Downhill: 1,200 ft.
Went up with Luke for a short day on coalbank before heading to ouray for the CAIC fundraiser friday night. Snow conditions were variable with some soft snow in the trees and a lot of sunbake everywh...[view]READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: February 26, 2010 Uphill: 1,000 ft. | Downhill: 1,200 ft.
The north facing slope proved to have good snow although it was very tracked up already. No sign of any abnormally weak layers and 30 degree pitches were not too worrisome. Stayed away from the sun-ba...[view]READ MORE
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Dannyboy: February 14, 2010 Uphill: 8,000 ft. | Downhill: 10,600 ft.
Skied off a N Couloir into the N side of Grand Turk, then up to the Summit of Sultan, and down the NW side of Sultan to Bear Creek. In the alpine snow conditions were wind crusts with occasional powd...[view]
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Nickmalik: February 14, 2010 Uphill: 2,250 ft. | Downhill: 2,250 ft.
It hadn't snowed in about a week but it was cold the whole time and windy the two days before allowing for some satisfying turns. Gotta love wind loading! (not to mention the sun allowing for epic ph...[view]READ MORE
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Powderjunky: February 14, 2010 Uphill: 1,500 ft. | Downhill: 1,500 ft.
Got some pics of the local talent Luke and Nick airing it out nicely....[view]
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Rwberman: February 14, 2010 Uphill: 2,222 ft. | Downhill: 2,222 ft.
Great snow, great day! no avys to worry about.... snow was blown in about boot top deep... clam wind on and off through the day.... awesome day!...[view]READ MORE
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Lukelubchenco: February 14, 2010 Uphill: 2,000 ft. | Downhill: 2,000 ft.
Great conditions. Conducive to going fast and cruising pow turns. Not a worry about avys as the layers seem to have settled nicely and only one sluff was started on the absolute steepest slope we coul...[view]READ MORE
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Waheenie: February 13, 2010 Uphill: 2,300 ft. | Downhill: 2,300 ft.
Slow and steady, nice day with husband and dog, fun exploring a new place, weather was a little fickle, sunny and snowing, dog got bad ice chunks in his paws....[view]READ MORE
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Powderjunky: February 13, 2010 Uphill: 2,300 ft. | Downhill: 2,300 ft.
The main bowl looked fairly wind loaded so we skied the trees. Snow was light in fluffy in the upper trees on northern aspects. Snow started to fall as we reached the top, should be a good day tomorro...[view]
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