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2022 Taos Mini-Gathering - January 22 - January 29, 2022
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My two cents: If DH is a groomers-only guy, then the Libertys. Otherwise the Enforcer. Especially if a little snow emerges. Obviously this is based on a combination of personal preference and general principles. The general principle is that Taos has a lot of bumps and tight steep terrain where low speed agility - read pivotability - trumps high edge angles and carved turns. This suggests a ski with some rocker and tip taper. Hope that helps.
Time to start prepping skis this week for the trip. So my question is whether the groomers are free of hitting rocks. Here in CO, groomer zooming is currently safe for any ski I care about. What's the status of the TSV groomers?
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I have not hit any rocks on groomers yet, just some icy spots and uneven grooming that has taken me by surprise a few times. I think coverage is still ok on most groomed runs. Everything was skied up by 10ish (busy weekend). They are making snow on Baby bear and Papa bear today. They have groomed Lower Staffy/Firlefanz from my view off chair 2 but that area is still closed. They closed off Porcupine this week for Race Week and other race training.
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One of these days you should go here. I don’t think it’s been ruined yet, but I was there in the early 90’s. A very long dirt road keeps the tour buses out. (Prob not smart to go in winter in a rental car. Plus it’s about 3 1/2hrs from Santa Fe)
Fajada Butte at Chaco Culture National Historical Park photo: Eric Jay Toll
Way back then a friend and I were driving cross country, he going to Santa Fe. In some place we were or staying was that wizened older dude in the corner with a cigarette. He’a the one who told us one place we had to go to see was Chaco Canyon. He wasn’t wrong.
A very special place, convinced me at the time we shouldn’t drill for oil in the Arctic National Refuge. At the time that was a highly debated topic. I guess we just blew right over that ban.
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2021/07/chaco-culture-national-historical-park-hard-reach-filled-unexpected
Robert Redford narrated a documentary on Chaco called The Sun Dagger. Brilliant. I think it was remade as The Mystery of Chaco Canyon. With so little snow you could probably get there in winter. Summer is hot as an oven. Spring or fall is best.
In transit. Things came up. Had to push it back a week. Will be skiing Wed.
I'm in! Am here now, reasonably good snow coverage. Snow is thin on the bottom of Al's Run but appears OK up top (I'm not good enough, just saying what I see from the lift).
Cool. Are you related to @JohnL ?
Snow is often thin at the bottom of Al's, even in a big snow year.
I am here too!!
Yeah, sure.
Skis tuned, waxed.
How is coverage off the groomers? Rock ski territory?
How is coverage off the groomers? Rock ski territory?
See post#764.
No rocks on groomers. I didn’t go over to #4 today so I did not see the progress on Baby Bear or Papa Bear. There was snowmaking on Firlefanz. They closed off the crossover from Whitefeather to Tell Glade so no update on Lower Stauffy. Blitz has surprisingly good coverage but rocks on Reformer. Didn’t get to ski Rhoda’s/Spencer’s/Inferno the last 2 days because they closed Porcupine for race camp and I wasn’t going down Al’s to get there.
I thought it was amusing.
Get the L outta here...
Best groomed run today was Bambi. Worse was Powderhorn. There were lots of weird patches/dips/ridges (not sure what they are called) of snow on Maxie’s, Totemoff, Honeysuckle and Shalako. Also lots of deep trenches from snow mobile. The only run that I saw dirt was at the bottom of Maxie’s.