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Snow Route Information:

The snow route hot line is 387-5522 ext. 11. Call AFTER 5:00 PM to find out if snow routes are in effect (or check on the town's Twitter feed). When snow routes are in effect, no cars are allowed to park on Greene Street from midnight to 7:00 am. With respect to all other streets, as of 12:01 AM – just after midnight – on odd days of the month, park on the side with odd addresses; on even days of the month, be sure to park on the even side of the street.

Regardless of whether it’s snowing yet or if there is enough accumulation to warrant plowing that day, the Sheriff’s Department will begin ticketing shortly after midnight when a Red Alert has been established. Once all snow is removed from the prohibited side of the street, move your car as soon as possible to that now-cleared side of the street to allow Public Works to clear it as soon as possible. The Sheriff’s Department should not be ticketing cars that have been moved to the fully-cleared side of the street, regardless of odd or even numbering.

Two old standby establishments in Silverton, Cafe Mobius and the Pride of the West, have recently reopened under new ownership, much to the delight of locals.

If you were anywhere near Silverton last winter, you knew that something was going on up at Silverton Mountain. You knew that there was more buzz than usual (and not just from the new helicopter). You might have known that Red Bull had built Shawn White a ground-breaking private half pipe.

Now Red Bull has launched a web site to show off last year's 'Project X'. And it's a pretty in-depth site with photos, video, and stats on Shawn's little pet project.

Check out Red Bull Project X for what went down in Colorado Basin last winter...

UPDATE - Oct 30th- They just posted a new two and a half minute video today... check it out on YouTube here. And check out the in-depth article (and photos) from Transworld Snowboarding, here.

Michael Barton of Mountain Goat Ski Guides got some great turns yesterday, October 6th, from around 12,000 feet... 50cm of fresh snow, and a great start to the winter...

Check out the helmet cam video of his run on his blog, http://silvertonbackcountry.blogspot.com.

Makes you wanna wax up the boards and get to hiking, doesn't it?

Greg Custer, of San Juan Grill fame, has re-opened the Cow Palace at 1124 Greene St (at 11th)! Stopped in this morning for some inaugural eats, and had the Ebelheiser Special with hash browns, cheddar, basted eggs, bacon, and topped with pork green chile. The perfect Sunday morning meal at a very affordable price.

Greg says he'll be open just for breakfast at this point, starting at 6:30am, and is shooting for seven days per week. Soon, lunch will be served as well. Dinners are still happening up the street at the San Juan Grill.

They have no phone line, so there's no credit card machine, which means cash-only.

Nice work, Greg. Off to a great start!

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.