If the city of Durango, Purgatory (thanks for the name change) and the owner of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad want to make this a destination, make a skier train, with a spur that stops at Purgatory to drop skiers off. Maybe at Gelande. (It would make a lift from Gelande to the six-pack imperative.) Maybe a 8 a.m. train with a 4:30 p.m. return. That would make Durango/Purgatory the destination town we need to be – actually the only place to be. It would be public transportation; federal bucks might pay for most of it, as in Telluride and the gondola.

Richard MacEwen

Hesperus