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So the wife and I headed to Taos NM for her birthday last week to do some skiing. We arrived in Albuquerque on Wed evening and drove to Santa Fe to crash for the night. We bumped around the square in the AM and looked at some jewelry, then had lunch and made our way north to Taos. We stayed at a very nice place called the El Monte Sagrado. Just a handful of rooms, nice grounds, and surprisingly good food for a hotel.

Statue and the cloud deck descending bringing fresh snow


View of grounds from our room


Woke up to snow on Friday and headed out to ski


Snowed all day Fri so no pics of that but then Sat was a blue bird day


Surprisingly not a ski run, but rather an old dumping area from a silver mine


Taos was hosting the Salomon Freeride Extreme Series


Pretty good turn out to watch despite it being on the top of the mountain, lift ticket required




Look close for the kid who is stuck behind the dead tree


Ski Patrol had to rope down to him and then rope him down from there


Wide view of the area he was trying to ride


Another 'boarder thought he would give it a go (upper left quad of photo near tree)


But he just chickened out and slid down some


View from lift up to Kachina Peak. This isn't lift accessible, but requires an hour hike


Another view of the peak, from top of a different lift and you can see some of the ridge you walk to get there


Lefty in action


The Seaters


After skiing Taos thru Tuesday we got up early and headed back to Santa Fe on Wed morning to ski a half day there before heading home
Looking towards Los Alamos


Departing Albuquerque


Virgin America flight from LAX to DFW. We overtook this guy around the NM/TX boarder and then left him behind, eat that airbus!






On Final to DAL with DFW under the wing in the distance

Rack the PET. Skiing is a lot of fun.

The nearest I've been to the slopes is "Mahogany Ridge".

Are you referring to the brewery in Steamboat by the same name?