Silver Star Set For Alpine Opening

They now have enough snow.

Silver Star Mountain Resort has announced it will open its alpine season Saturday.

Sales and marketing director Ian Jenkins says they’ll have 14 runs and two lifts including the new Des Schumann Summitt Express gondola and the Silver Queen chair.

“With the new snow this week and the cooler alpine temperature, it has helped to fill in a few spots on the hill that was needed in order to get our upper mountain open,” says Jenkins. “With our focus being on a high quality and safe environment for our guests to enjoy, SilverStar is pleased to announce we are ready to go. Conditions change quickly and early season conditions exist; we advise our guests to stay in bounds and be safe. It’s going to be a long, fantastic season.”

Jenkins says opening day festivities will begin at 8am and as the countdown commences we will be offering hot chocolate and donuts to all guests who come early.

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“Be one of the first 8 guests who receive ‘First Chair’ on the DRS Gondola by testing your SilverStar knowledge in a fun game of trivia and correctly answering some skill testing question,” says Jenkins.

Jenkins notes it will be the upper mountain opening and there will be very limited beginner terrain.

“If a guest has never ridden a lift before or wants to learn to ski or ride for the first time, we recommend they wait until we have more beginner terrain and lifts open.”

The Des Schumann Summit Express will have a capacity of 1200 guests per hour, and transports our guests at a third of the time as the old Summit Express.

Nordic opened on November 16th, with 52km of trails open.