Curtis Wackerle:
"Aspen Mountain Ski Patrol’s push to give the public access to more of the mountain has resulted in the opening of two new terrain areas.
Spar Dump and Silver Queen Ridge may the equivalent of “inside baseball,” because they will likely appeal to only the most devoted of Aspen Mountain skiers, said ski patroller Tim Cooney.
“We wanted to create a buzz among the truly devoted,” Cooney said, giving credit to a handful of Ajax patrollers who were “passionate about getting the terrain open.”
The runs recently opened for the first time, with the February snowpack providing enough coverage to get the job done.
The “nook and cranny” areas are located at the end of the ridge that makes up the Dumps section of the mountain. A gate near the beginning of the Silver Queen run provides access.
A narrow lane cut through aspen trees past Rayburn’s provides access to the furthest point on the ridge. From there, skiers can either go right to Spar Dump, which is actually four separate runs that funnel down to the Spar Catwalk, or left to Silver Queen Ridge, where a handful of glades cut through pine trees and empty above the Compromise Mine building...." (Read more? See photo? Click title)
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