NMSKI Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 Snow report says 7”, so looks like I’ll have some powder on day 1 although on limited terrain and a tiny base. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 6
toast21602 Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 Sounds like a good first day! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 Whenever I see Taos it reminds me of tacos.
toast21602 Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 Just now, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: Whenever I see Taos it reminds me of tacos. Not surprised by this at all. 2
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 1 minute ago, toast21602 said: Not surprised by this at all. I post this every year when NMSki posts his Taos report. Makes sense since Taos used to be in mexico.
toast21602 Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 Just now, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: I post this every year when NMSki posts his Taos report. Makes sense since Taos used to be in mexico. ok.
RidgeRacer Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 This thread is welcome relief from the BS in other threads currently. Post up some pics. 5 1 1
indiggio Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: Whenever I see Taos it reminds me of tacos. Makes me think of toes, and I don't even like feet.
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 10 minutes ago, indiggio said: Makes me think of toes, and I don't even like feet. Thanks for clarifying. I've always wondered which PASRs have foot fetishes. 1
antman12 Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 1 hour ago, RidgeRacer said: This thread is welcome relief from the BS in other threads currently. Post up some pics. Thank goodness. Admittedly I didn't know about Taos but just looking into it. Wow! Looks to be an excellent place to ride. Here's to good weather and fun skiing! 1
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 35 minutes ago, antman12 said: Thank goodness. Admittedly I didn't know about Taos but just looking into it. Wow! Looks to be an excellent place to ride. Here's to good weather and fun skiing! Sheesh how do you not know about Taos??
antman12 Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 21 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: Sheesh how do you not know about Taos?? I'm a "jibhonk" brah. lol
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 20, 2018 Report Posted February 20, 2018 15 minutes ago, antman12 said: I'm a "jibhonk" brah. lol Gotcha when I first started skiing I bought the white book of ski areas and learned about everywhere and studied the stats and trail maps and what not
Popular Post NMSKI Posted February 21, 2018 Author Popular Post Report Posted February 21, 2018 Interesting day at Taos but really fun. First, man are they hurting for a base. I’ve never seen Al’s with so much shit poking through in the 30 years I’ve been going to Taos. Neither of the ridges is open and part of the backside is still closed. The good thing is that 7 inches fell at the base and was much more up high. I started out on the frontside and skied lift 8 for a while when waiting for the backside to open. About half the runs were left ungroomed which made for some nice boot to knee deep perder turns. I kept going up lift 2 to check if the backside was open and on my third time up I noticed the rope was gone and proceeded down honeysuckle. Got probably 3rd tracks down walkyries bowl and because I know some local tricks, I knew that Bobs would be good if it was open. After coming down walkyries, I snuck around lift 7a’s bottom shack and entered Bobs run which was knee deep and I had first tracks. I followed bobs down under lift 7 and had untouched powder the entire length of lift 7. I did that routine 3 times and was exhausted. After a little break I searched the sides of trails for what was left. I saw some prep going on on some of the upper steeps which look almost ready to go. Possibly some snow for Thursday so my fingers are crossed. My pics aren’t great, I wasn’t stopping to take off my gloves in the morning and it was cold as shit all day.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 11
antman12 Posted February 21, 2018 Report Posted February 21, 2018 Great first trip report NM. I went back to Taos website and was looking at the trailmap/some of the runs you took. Pretty cool that you have some "locals knowledge". Hopefully that snow rolls in like you mentioned. 1
Popular Post NMSKI Posted February 21, 2018 Author Popular Post Report Posted February 21, 2018 Nice view to wake up toSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 11
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 21, 2018 Report Posted February 21, 2018 8 hours ago, NMSKI said: Nice view to wake up to Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Wow where are you staying??
Popular Post NMSKI Posted February 22, 2018 Author Popular Post Report Posted February 22, 2018 What a great surprise today was! They reported 2”, but it continued to snow all day. Skied like 5” on much of the mountain. I guess I’m the luckiest son of a bitch in the world, but today was the first rope drop on highline ridge and west basin hike to terrain. Highline was only open through Juarez and west basin only through west blitz trees, but I was probably the 20th person to ski Juarez this year and it was really deep. Bottomless. I hiked once more to do Juarez again and made 2 hikes to west blitz trees which was so nice but not quite as bottomless. Played around off of bobs, moes and walkyries again. Skipped all the lift 8 bullshit. Word is more terrain opening tomorrow as they are looking at another 5-8 inches tonight, although it never really stopped snowing today aside from a few quick breaks in the clouds. I only brought my all mountain skis because conditions were expected to be so bad. Having fun in the 3D snow on my skinny skis!! Here are some scenery pics:Shots of Juarez and west blitz:Action shotsSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 13
theprogram4 Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 NMski is second best poster on this site
NMSKI Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Posted February 22, 2018 Wow where are you staying??The last 3 years we’ve been renting a house in Arroyo Seco, NM which is about halfway between the town of Taos and the ski valley. I like it because it’s only about 15 minutes from skiing.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
NMSKI Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Posted February 22, 2018 Snowed 5” last night and another 5-8 during the day expected. Dumping at the house right now (also taking a dump actually). Should be a fun one!Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 1
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