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Thread: TAOS New Mexico....BETA.....?
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01-15-2020, 09:34 AM #576Registered User
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We looked into staying slope side at Taos at the Blake. Holy shit is that place expensive!
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01-15-2020, 12:08 PM #577Registered User
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What did you expect?! The Blake is the signature property of the new ownership. Of course it's going to be expensive. Practically any other place up there will be cheaper than the Blake.
There's a far cheaper alternative: Stay in somewhere between the Ski Valley and town that's close to a shuttle stop (RideTheBlueBus.com). The shuttle's free and, by the time you've unloaded from it, just about as fast as taking your own vehicle up the hill, parking it, and catching a Ski Valley parking shuttle to its drop off point.
good luck,
john
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01-15-2020, 01:33 PM #578Registered User
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What’s the parking/sleeping situation like? Specific lots or anywhere goes? I will be self contained, no hookups needed
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01-15-2020, 04:49 PM #579Registered User
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They park RV's down low on the right when you come into the ski area in Deer lot. I park my TC up past the shuttle drop off. Super low key and wonderful.
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01-15-2020, 10:13 PM #580
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01-16-2020, 05:48 PM #581
Anyone at Taos tomorrow?
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01-16-2020, 08:03 PM #582
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01-16-2020, 09:02 PM #583
I’ll be in the first chair lineup. Prob only skiing till 1-2ish.
Green jacket, black crows. Stupid tele.
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01-17-2020, 04:02 AM #584
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01-17-2020, 05:29 AM #585
Just for the record, I'm a decent skier. Just 45. Dudes that were like 65, damn. Straight skiing me into the ground. Fuck.
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01-17-2020, 05:30 AM #586
Taos is no fucking joke.
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01-17-2020, 08:30 AM #587
It’s a four letter word for steep
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01-17-2020, 09:22 AM #588
They're reporting 14" overnight. FUCK, I wish I had driven down yesterday!
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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01-17-2020, 09:50 AM #589
Entire mountain on wind/avy hold
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01-17-2020, 10:04 AM #590
Well, glad I stayed home, then.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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01-17-2020, 10:36 AM #591
Louis Bacon isn't the worst person to own tsv from my limited perspective. Somebody had to buy it. Not a fan of "taos air" or the Kachina lift, but the base needed a makeover. And we all know that the lift was in Ernie's master plan...so. I haven't seen the base area in person, but the old buildings were tired.
TSV being so far from a major airport will most likely keep the place pretty chill relatively speaking when you look at every other large hill in the US.
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01-17-2020, 02:40 PM #592
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01-17-2020, 02:55 PM #593
Hoping Sat won't be too much of a shitshow from the holiday weekend crowd--may have to park at the bav to avoid long lift 1 lines if there are some issues with weather.
Ski The East
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01-17-2020, 03:04 PM #594
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01-18-2020, 12:07 AM #595
TAOS New Mexico....BETA.....?
After a brief delay, today was excellent. 1 opened shortly after 9, 2 around 10/1030ish, 7 and 7a around noon. Then Lorelei around 230.
Bombs were still going off when I got to my car at 330. So maybe they were trying to get longhorn/Werner’s open?
Despite the holiday crowds, this weekend will be super good. West basin and highline never opened, 4 never opened, walkeries too.
From 12-3 ish it was blowing so hard it was refills on the chair 2 steeps. Not like blower overhead, but punchy wind buff that flattened out the bumps completely. So. Fkn. Fun to go fast through those trees. I still have a boner.
Backside opening was great timing as I needed a break from hammering everything on 2. Tracking up the blue runs and mellow trees was a sweet rest for a few laps.
Lorelei opening in the afternoon was icing on the cake. Three laps in there to end my day.
The closed chair 2 around 2ish because it was blowing so hard. They kept 7/7a open and Lorelei was fantastic in the trees.
I suspect ropes will be dropping tomorrow and it’ll be game on.
Driving home via 64-W was the worst driving conditions I’ve ever seen (really) near hopewell lake.Last edited by Tech Tonics; 01-18-2020 at 09:13 AM.
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01-18-2020, 09:35 PM #596
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01-23-2020, 10:44 AM #597Registered User
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Saw that Kachina was open the other day but closed today, along with several trails/bowls. Avalanche control? Hasn't snowed much in last 3 days (5") but wind may be an issue.
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01-23-2020, 05:33 PM #598Registered User
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They opened Kachina mid day but lift 4 was down all day for maintenance, so if you hiked out you were having a country club day, on a country club day
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01-23-2020, 07:33 PM #599Registered User
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Question for the local mags...is there reliable, decently fast, public WiFi available anywhere in the base area of TSV? Thinking of coming down for a week, but I need to log in to a conference call for work each day, mid-morning for 1-2 hrs. Would rather do that at the mountain instead of driving all the way back to town. I read an article indicating there is...but...can anyone confirm/deny?
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01-23-2020, 09:18 PM #600
I’ve never used the TSV WiFi for anything other than texting and things like reading TRG. But it seemed okay.
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