Basecamp Silverton

Found on MSN's homepage on Sunday, March 29th: Highways to Hell. Turns out our little highway is number two on the list!

By now, most everyone has seen last winter's Silverton Mountain segment in Warren Miller's 'Children of Winter'. Whether or not this was the impetus for a whole new crop of film crews to show up may not really matter... as they're out in force this winter.

In my regular news feeds and Google Alerts, I see most of what is being put up on the web from Silverton. Here's what I saw over the winter:

Teton Gravity Research was here in January with Dylan Hood and Dash Longe filming in the backcountry, and have posted some video to their 'Almost Live' series, titled 'Throwing down in Silverton, CO', and the newly-added Episode 3.

Poor Boyz Productions have been in Silverton for a few days now with John Symms, Simon Dumont, Peter Olenick, and Jake Largess, riding and shooting in the backcountry. They have written about it on ESPN.com. [UPDATE: the guys wrapped up their trip with another photo/blog entry on ESPN.com on March 11th, and a post on Peter Olenick's blog.]

And, of course, Shaun White has been filming here for Red Bull and Burton. He just won another comp in Park City, UT, and talks about his time in Silverton in an interview on ESPN.com.

You can bet that next fall's crop of ski and snowboard films will feature a lot of this year's great footage. Stay tuned...

As of 6am this morning (Feb 25th), Durango's KSUT, home of NPR, has moved to a MUCH stronger transmitter at 91.5 FM. if you couldn't get it before in some parts of town, chances are you get it now!

Read the press release from KSUT here.

This is Shaun White's just-completed halfpipe on the backside of Silverton Mountain, in the shadow of Storm Peak. This is just below the famed 'Grande' and the 'Hanging Valley' and 'Hidden Valley' runs, in an area shown on the map as 'The Lake'. The pipe was built by Red Bull (with some pipe dragon assistance provided by Oakley), just for Shaun's training purposes. The box at the bottom of the pipe is a custom-built foam pit for practicing new tricks...

Consider becoming a DJ at our local radio station, located in the Visitor's Center. The low power FM radio we have here in Silverton is a real treasure. There are endless oportunities to pursue with this format. Music, talk, discussion, etc. And the more involved we get, the more the community will enjoy listening to local news, music etc. For more info, call 387-5752 or you can contact any of the current DJs

P.S. Its also a lot of FUN!

The 2nd and 3rd grade slass at Silverton Schools traveled to Denver this week to perform their Ancient China Shadow Puppet Play at the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning.  The students made their puppets and developed original voices for their characters.  The play depicted life and society in Ancient China, during the Tang Dynasty.  Go Miners!

Spotted this article on InsideBayArea.com.  The Silverton students visited a high school in Oakland, CA, and were featured in this online article...

It took a while for the students to warm up to each other, but once they did, there was a flurry of e-mail exchanges and an enthusiastic group "thank you" by the end of sixth period at Oakland International High School.

 

As a former resident of Silverton, I saw the article about this site in the newspaper and just had to check it out. Great idea! Wish it had been available when I lived there.

We used to have a small group of folks who got together and discussed the I Ching, took turns analyzing readings for each other, etc. It was a lot of fun, as well as broadening our understanding of the Book of Changes.