TAOS New Mexico....BETA.....?

[Meadow Skipper]

People die every day I don't want to disparage this but it’s a dangerous sport and one incident not multiple they've obviously learned from it. Instagram is flooding my feeds with morons skiing super technical lines like Big Chute at Alta with zero coverage in November and these tools act like they should be applauded for putting S+R's lives on the line. There should be a middle ground between applauding nonsensical content like that when the tool bag doesn't even ski or make turns and listening to bombs for 3 hours until 11 after 3".

I know a few of the patrollers that were there when it happened. They took it hard, really hard. And now they don’t give a shit when people in the lift lines and on line harass them because it doesn’t get opened when the punters think it should.

[snowaddict91]

I also don't see what avy control in a shitty continental snowpack has to do with some knobs shredding main chute with a foot of base.

[Djongo Unchained]

You Sally's from the Village can't handle tight steeps anyway, hence blowing up the Alta chutes "to make it more skiable" waaaaaa!
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Those dinks that wanna do that, well, I'd like to blow them up.

[Buster Highmen]

I know a few of the patrollers that were there when it happened. They took it hard, really hard. And now they don’t give a shit when people in the lift lines and on line harass them because it doesn’t get opened when the punters think it should.

I was there last year when one of the avie patrollers went for a ride off the ridge. I saw the group ski into the village looking pretty grim.

Lots of people were moaning about not being able to get to lift 4 or ski the ridge. I had no idea DoYou WannaDance was there.

The St. B gone still wrenches me.

[DoYou WannaDance]

I know a few of the patrollers that were there when it happened. They took it hard, really hard. And now they don’t give a shit when people in the lift lines and on line harass them because it doesn’t get opened when the punters think it should.

Yeah they don't care that when the sport is 3x popular the best resort in the USA that they work at only has 1/2 of the business it used to. They had crazy skier visit numbers in the 80s and 90s before skiing became a safe space nanny state hobby.

Whats the difference between dying in a slide and a car crash on the way to the hill?

[Buster Highmen]

Whats the difference between dying in a slide and a car crash on the way to the hill?

Some nitwit dismisses the slide precautions?

[Djongo Unchained]

Whats the difference between dying in a slide and a car crash on the way to the hill?

On any given day, one is waaaay more likely to die in a car crash than in an avalanche.

[MakersTeleMark]

Yeah they don't care that when the sport is 3x popular the best resort in the USA that they work at only has 1/2 of the business it used to. They had crazy skier visit numbers in the 80s and 90s before skiing became a safe space nanny state hobby.

Whats the difference between dying in a slide and a car crash on the way to the hill?

Agency?

[DoYou WannaDance]

Kachina got shut down for a day 2 days before I arrived because the owner wanted to ski it with his friends and noone else.

Then they shut it down for some garbage FWT minor league event that took up 4 days. I've never seen anything more pathetic than the mens snowboard event they were worse than random dudes in the liftlines probably just had rich parents. Ladies events were uneventful and mens skiing sucked the one dude who had a sick run threw a 5 into a rock and we had to watch him get scraped off the hill and he alone delayed Kachina opening for 90 minutes. Then all these selfish competitors lined up to ride the lift after hoarding it for days.

I almost got my pass pulled for poaching it during the comp and saying I was a coach I got 4 runs in while it was off limits and they were pissed the last time I beat them onto the chair.

[DoYou WannaDance]

That is the best chairlift on the planet though. Maybe there is a tram that is better because its longer but in terms of chairs nothing touches it absolutely amazing skiing off that thing. Great snow too since its light and the wind kind of refreshes it like a zamboni regularly.

[Meadow Skipper]

Sounds like DoYou WannaDance isn’t a good match for Taos. I’d strongly suggest you go somewhere else, after you go fuck yourself.

[DoYou WannaDance]

Sounds like DoYou WannaDance isn’t a good match for Taos. I’d strongly suggest you go somewhere else, after you go fuck yourself.

10-4 Im taking the year off from Epic/Ikon/Western Lower 48.

[DoYou WannaDance]

On any given day, one is waaaay more likely to die in a car crash than in an avalanche.

Of course. Thats why people are fucking pissed at those clowns on patrol making it an impossible place to visit if attempting to time a storm which is what most of us do. You can get the Denver Ikon crowd and thats it fly to vacation skiers won't come bc you will get a dump and then keep everything closed for a week.

[jackstraw]

Please tell us, does it physically hurt to be so dumb? Your home hill must be Hunter

[byates1]

Kachina got shut down for a day 2 days before I arrived because the owner wanted to ski it with his friends and noone else.

Then they shut it down for some garbage FWT minor league event that took up 4 days. I've never seen anything more pathetic than the mens snowboard event they were worse than random dudes in the liftlines probably just had rich parents. Ladies events were uneventful and mens skiing sucked the one dude who had a sick run threw a 5 into a rock and we had to watch him get scraped off the hill and he alone delayed Kachina opening for 90 minutes. Then all these selfish competitors lined up to ride the lift after hoarding it for days.

I almost got my pass pulled for poaching it during the comp and saying I was a coach I got 4 runs in while it was off limits and they were pissed the last time I beat them onto the chair.

Best skier on the MTN here boys. Fking sweet blogging too. Impressive.

[telefreewasatch]

Of course. Thats why people are fucking pissed at those clowns on patrol making it an impossible place to visit if attempting to time a storm which is what most of us do. You can get the Denver Ikon crowd and thats it fly to vacation skiers won't come bc you will get a dump and then keep everything closed for a week.

Maybe you should work there and show em how it's done.
A lot of those trollers have been around for a while and have way more of a clue than clueless you.
Know many of them personally.
You are the clown.

[Gepeto]

^
as we get to see his epitaph hurtling towards him while he's blinded by it

WD, you in the wrong neighborhood for that kinda Stoke feller

[BFD]

If your timing is right you can watch control work on the highline cam.

[raisingarizona13]

Total annual snowfall from 2013 thru 2023:
204", 191", 174", 169",192", 78"!, 219",166", 165", 191", 222".

It makes perfect sense. You were just there on the Phat year.

Averaging 165" a season is depressing. I couldn't do it. The area is cool but, no.

That's gotta be at the base area. The basins half way up the mountain must get more than that.
I have to admit, the skiing at Taos is arguably pound for pound a lot more challenging than the Vill. A part of that is the lack of a deep snowpack but it's also just steep AF everywhere.

[raisingarizona13]

EC'ers would never think it lacks snow. West coastas are just soft [emoji1787]

Especially in Utah! Jeez the Cottonwood Canyon snow sliders are spoiled. They scoff at anyplace that gets 300 or less and I'm over here like, hey I can have plenty of fun with a 200 inch season but I'm used to skiing Arizona so.....

[raisingarizona13]

I spent 6 winters there..78/79 to 83/84.. Snow total wise ,it can definitely be feast or famine ..I experienced both....but its usually in between the extremes... I lived in various places my years there...in town, in Seco and in the ski valley ..pros and cons for all locations.....if you can make it happen to spend a season there I doubt if you will regret it!!!!. I still have close friends living there that own property... Housing is tight.. Nothing is cheap.. unless you compare it to Aspen..I have not been back for a visit since 2014.... So I won't try to give you specific advice..it truly is a unique mix of ski town/arts haven/ alternative lifestyle spot...LOTS of things to do and people to meet that don't have much or anything to do with skiing.. For me that made my winters there much more interesting and enjoyable compared to the winters when I lived in Vail and Kimberly B.C...

That's something I really appreciate as well. Ski towns got really old for me years ago. I enjoy being in a more diverse and dynamic community. Skiing is cool but it just ain't everything to me any longer. If there's no snow? Great, I'll go enjoy doing other activities and often hang with people that have never even skied. I need that kind of diversity otherwise I get bored quickly.

Taos is sick. It's my favorite mountain right now, I just wish I could spend a month or two skiing there in the winter, hopefully before I pass on I can make that happen.

[fleaches]

EC'ers would never think it lacks snow. West coastas are just soft [emoji1787]

A couple of years on the east coast will really reset the stoke meter... It's hard to complain anymore about snow quality/quantity.

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[byates1]

^ after weekly rain to the summits in EC in '16, I said ok. Fuck this. Been skiing west ever since. My only base criteria is snow on the ground in winter not soil.

[doebedoe]

Went to Taos this fall for our last pre-kid get away. Ate great food, ran cool trails, saw lots of good art, stumbled on live music. Kicking myself for having never skied down there despite 10 years of living on the front range. Cool fucking town and not just a ski brah town.

Is there any reasonably affordable way for a non IKONer to ski a few days around there without paying full rates? Perhaps swapping comps to my hill?

[jackstraw]

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I have to admit, the skiing at Taos is arguably pound for pound a lot more challenging than the Vill. A part of that is the lack of a deep snowpack but it's also just steep AF everywhere.

Yeah, I went right from the Village to TSV. I've probably said this too many times and probably in this thread, but it is two different beasts. TSV was primarily a slalom ski hill vs gs at the village. TSV has so many hidden lines that takes a nose and desire to find. Sharky af which added another element...straightling skilz [emoji16] Both great places, but very different. Although to your other point, the town and vibe of Taos doesn't compare...anymore. Village along with every other great hill town has been blown up by kooks. No airport has saved Taos.