Tag: skiing

Autumn 2015 — The Dry and the Wet

What to watch for in the fall snowpack and storms for skiing out of Marble, Colorado.

Community Avalanche Safety Workshop 2015

Avalanche Safety Workshop

Always a good bet for refreshing your knowledge and doing some networking. Meet new backcountry skiing friends, chat up the locals SAR folks, be a part of the community. Information at MountainRescueAspen.org

Winter 2014/15 Begins

Google Earth map for Marble Skiing

Marble area hasn’t received some of the larger recent snowfalls we’ve had in other parts of Colorado, but the snowpack build has definitely begun. We’ve seen a few folks trying to push the skiing, but snow depth on the access routes from Quarry road is insufficiant to cover downed trees and other obstacles. We’d recommend …

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Quarry Makes Major Road Improvements — Summer 2014

Looking NE from Lumber Curve to Windy Corner, new roadbase , much wider than before.

All varieties of backcountry travelers, rejoice. Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc. has been spending an immense amount of money and time widening sections of Quarry Road out of Marble, Colorado. They’ve been adding parking, trucking in roadbase and applying chloride to keep the summer dust down. We’ve been watching the work all summer — impressive. This …

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