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Tinker's Detour at Durango Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 524 m long with 119 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 22° at its steepest, facing NE.

22°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
524 mlength
119 mvertical
2893 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

Tinker's Detour is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Tinker's Detour

Lifts that reach the top: Needles Lift #6 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Gelande (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Engineer Lift #2 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Purgatory Village Express #1 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Hermosa Park Express #3 (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 6 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Needles Lift #6
  2. Ski Upper Hades (intermediate)
  3. Ski Cherub (intermediate)
  4. Ski Tinker's Detour (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Tinker's Dam. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Purgatory Village Express #1 (1 min), Needles Lift #6 (1 min).

See Tinker's Detour on the 3D mapAll runs at Durango Mountain Resort
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.