Kyburz (formerly, Slippery Ford and Slipperyford)[3] is a small unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.

It is located along the South Fork of the American River and U.S. Route 50, and is surrounded by the Eldorado National Forest.

[1] Settlement began a mile west at Webster’s Sugar Loaf House as a remount station for the pony express on April 3, 1860.

Ski racer Spider Sabich grew up in Kyburz, where his father, Vladimir Sr., was stationed with the California Highway Patrol.

Spider and his younger brother Steve raced at the Edelweiss ski area, which closed in the 1960s, and is now known as Camp Sacramento.