Avalanche gear is required to ride the lift at all times due to the unpatrolled and ungroomed nature of Silverton.

[citation needed] Due to the high elevation of the San Juan Mountains and limited number of daily skiers the snow quality is typically very good.

On January 14, 2012 25-year-old Sydney Elizabeth Owens was skiing the "Riff" run with a guide when she fell and slid 1,500 feet down the mountain.

Based purely on skiing and not on development Silverton Mountain has no plans of building condos or high-speed chairlifts.

[5] In 2006 it was voted "Best of the West: Skiing in Colorado, Utah, California and Nevada for Extreme Terrain" by USA Today.

[6] Bloomberg TV "Skiers Tempt Fate on Exclusive Expert-Only Mountain" Warren Miller "Children of Winter" Matchstick Productions "Attack of La Nina" Teton Gravity Research "The Dream Factory"