2022 Taos Mini-Gathering - January 22 - January 29, 2022

[James]

Year starts in January or November?

 

[jgiddyup]

Lodging booked in town 22-27 Jan and lift tickets bought for skiing 24-26 Jan. Will likely drive up to the hill to get the lay of the land and pick up lift tickets on the 23rd. If we see some of the skitalk crowd we'll be sure to say hello or moon you if it was a powder day we missed

Haven't been on skis in 3 seasons so workouts commenced 6 weeks ago and we're going to Crested Butte first for 4 days so we can recover a slightly higher level of sucking before Taos.

 

[Lvovsky /Pasha/Pavel]

Got passes, lodging, and ski week booked for myself and the Mrs.

Come on Ullr! Do your thing!

 

[socalgal]

Signed up for the ski week. Adults => excellent deal. Children's ski school....

We will all have fun!

 

[dbostedo]

Let's hope this Christmas present of a forecast winds up correct for the next 10 days (and maybe beyond)!

 

[Tony S]

Let's hope this Christmas present of a forecast winds up correct for the next 10 days (and maybe beyond)!

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+42!

 

[Phelmut]

44. I guess you weren't a math major

 

[Tony S]

Maybe we should just move the whole thing to Alta. See appended Alta multi-foot forecast (from the NWS, not that Open Snow wishful thinking bullpucky). By contrast, the NWS is predicting nothing more than "snow showers" for Taos into next week. I know. I'm faithless and thankless and greedy and deserve to be passed over by The Great Pumpkin.

 

[Noodler]

Maybe we should just move the whole thing to Alta. See appended Alta multi-foot forecast (from the NWS, not that Open Snow wishful thinking bullpucky). By contrast, the NWS is predicting nothing more than "snow showers" for Taos into next week. I know. I'm faithless and thankless and greedy and deserve to be passed over by The Great Pumpkin.
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Yes, maybe so, but I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday...

 

[dbostedo]

Maybe we should just move the whole thing to Alta.

If you can convince Taos to move all their ski weeks there, then I'm game.

Also, if you're going to pick a place with lots of snow coming, why not Palisades?

 

[Tony S]

If you can convince Taos to move all their ski weeks there, then I'm game.

Right. Not a practicable idea. Just needed to express my intense desire for snow.

 

[Noodler]

If you can convince Taos to move all their ski weeks there, then I'm game.

Also, if you're going to pick a place with lots of snow coming, why not Palisades?

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Maybe we can build a huge fan array that can redirect the jetstream to point some of this at Taos...

 

[Phelmut]

Maybe we should just move the whole thing to Alta. See appended Alta multi-foot forecast (from the NWS, not that Open Snow wishful thinking bullpucky). By contrast, the NWS is predicting nothing more than "snow showers" for Taos into next week. I know. I'm faithless and thankless and greedy and deserve to be passed over by The Great Pumpkin.
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I'm the eternal optimist, but if you want to compare apples to apples, Opensnow shows Taos getting 52" over the next 10 days

 

[Tony S]

Maybe we can build a huge fan array that can redirect the jetstream to point some of this at Taos...

We ARE a huge fan array. Well, maybe a modest fan array.

 

[Jerez]

We could carpool to Wolf Creek.

 

[KingGrump]

We ARE a huge fan array. Well, maybe a modest fan array.

Burritos.

 

[Phelmut]

Not sure if you mean what i think you mean KG, but I'm going with it.

 

[KingGrump]

Not sure if you mean what i think you mean KG, but I'm going with it.

I meant exactly what you think I meant.

It all comes from within.

 

[jgiddyup]

Michel and I are driving so if the snow doesn't show we'll redirect to where there's snow. But thanks to Taos fairly generous ticket refund policy this season we will not have to decide until 9 Jan.

I'm hoping for a blast of snow but even if the ridge and Kachina aren't open we're still coming if most of the other runs are open with decent coverage.

 

[Tony S]

Open Snow habitually moves the decimal place in its forecasts for Saddleback one place to the left once the 48 hour window is breached. For example, they'll call for 32" of snow. Then three days before the storm they'll bump it down to 12" and then 18 hours before it will be 3.2". I actually think that's their business model. Get everyone all stoked up and cash in.