Purgatory: Paradise found for Colorado skiers

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 19, 1989| Author: Patricia Moore | Copyright information
DURANGO, Colo. Ask someone back home or even in distant parts of Colorado about this middling-sized town in the southwest corner of the state. If you get an answer at all, it's likely to be about Durango's notable narrow-gauge railroad.

But the railroad - closely associated with local mining lore and a major attraction in the warm weather - doesn't operate in the winter. So the likeliest response to the notion of a winter excursion here is, "Oh, really?"

While southwest Colorad...

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