Purgatory vs Telluride

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Dilldoes

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My lovely fiance scored a great job in Cortez Co. Moving out in July. My question is do I want to ski Telluride or Purg? They are both roughly the same distance from where we will be living.

I have only been to Purg once and it was 15 years ago. I've been skiing midwest parks for the last 5 years so either way I am excited to have some real vertical terrain to play on.
 
You gotta check out wolf creek while youre down there! Its an hour farther to cortez than telluride so worth it a couple pow days a year but not sure if that extra 2 hours round trip would justify a season pass there. If you get a season pass, are purg or tell affliated with toas at all cause thats not to bad of a drive either.
 
I still haven't skied Purgatory so I won't comment on it but I will say that Telluride is pretty impressive in terms of having a very solid park for not at all being a park-oriented mountain. Especially whenever I come to Telluride from Crested Butte I'm just like "wait, you can have gnarly steep terrain and a half-decent park??"

I don't love the fairly bougie vibe of Telluride, but you can avoid all that pretty easily and I've never had any issues with the people there, locals or visitors. And it is a ridiculously pretty place.
 
I haven't skied Telluride but have skied Purg and Wolf Creek in this area, and Purg was underwhelming to me. Wold Creek had a lot more terrain open, and more interesting terrain as well. I found Purg really small and the terrain extremely dull for the most part.
 
14146630:partyandBS said:
You gotta check out wolf creek while youre down there! Its an hour farther to cortez than telluride so worth it a couple pow days a year but not sure if that extra 2 hours round trip would justify a season pass there. If you get a season pass, are purg or tell affliated with toas at all cause thats not to bad of a drive either.
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Grew up skiing Wolf Creek,Toas, and Angel Fire regularly. Looking forward to hitting them back up!

**This post was edited on Jun 2nd 2020 at 3:21:27pm
 
Telluride but that whole area is cool. I love the resorts down there. Check our Hesperus for some blast from the past night skiing and silverton for some awesome slackcountry/heli skiing.
 
Good point. Also, just a heads up, purg has already closed the sale window for next season so all passes are full price. Not sure how old you are but that means it’s somewhere between like $550-$700 now

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Telluride if you can stomach the $2,000 season pass.
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I buy the Ikon and Epic, live in my van and travel most of the winter while working a decent amount haha. Telluride is so underrated, I would say for terrain it should be top in the U.S. I put it up with Aspen, cause highlands and Ajax are fire plus snowmass has the park, Mammoth, Squaw, Jackson, Alta. It should be mentioned with those types of mountains but because of its location it's underrated.

It's like 7 hours from Park City, 6 hours from Denver and still far from the airports in New Mexico so it's not easy to get to.
 
if you are living in that area, do yourself a favor and buy yourself a $99 spring unguided pass to Silverton no matter what pass you get, i think right now if you do that you can also get a $39 heli drop which is a steal. other than the price, go telluride, the terrain is amazing and its such a great ski town. purg is a lot of fun, but nothing compared to the steeps and terrain at telluride
 
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