Dec 22, 2020, 6:00 am 7.7K Shares
Opus Hut, which is at 11,600 feet above Silverton, is the closest you’re going to get to a full-service refuge in the Pyrenees. (Brett Schrenkengost, provided by Opus Hut)
Skiers get all the love with hut trips. Users are quick to share which shelters have the best access to crazy lines and the best backcountry terrain. Or which huts you can link together into a long ski tour.
But Colorado has a lot of huts and shelters reachable by incredible and safe snowshoe hikes, with adjacent trails for shoeing, nearby slopes for world-class sledding, or even a sauna to relax in without being bombarded with a crowd of boozed-up, smelly ski bums (if that’s not your vibe).