Arizona/New Mexico 2023 Taos Mini-Gathering Report and Pics

[Tex]

Headed up 1 @Snowfan

 

[Tex]

Alls run looks like it’s been groomed.

 

[KingGrump]

Alls run looks like it’s been groomed.

By Mother Nature.

 

[Tex]

Visibility a lot better today, going up lift 8.

 

[Tex]

Skitalker sighting off lift 8. @Snowfan and @FlyingAce ??? Can’t see good in my goggles ….they are zoom’n groom’n this morning..

 

[Tex]

Lift 7 one of my favoritis…really soft right now, and lift 7 first to get soft

 

[Tex]

Going up, Kachina report.

 

[Tex]

This is just getting started, they got cold beer up here too!

 

[FlyingAce]

Skitalker sighting off lift 8. @Snowfan and @FlyingAce ??? Can’t see good in my goggles ….they are zoom’n groom’n this morning..
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I don’t remember standing around that much LOL
@Snowfan saw you while we were on Chair 2 but you didn’t hear him calling out to you!

 

[Tex]

Legendary R & R, really really nice..

 

[BTaylor]

This is just getting started, they got cold beer up here too!

Live video feed of the Kachina freeride competition on Thurs (March 23) and Friday (March 24) is here:

Taos Adult Freeride Competition

 

[Tex]

Bonus pic from today, just getting start for the 1:00 meetup at Whistlestop. Big thanks to @KingGrump picking out all the best runs I have never skied before.

 

[Tex]

Love this Airbnb I’m staying, up the mountain from Arroyo Seco. You need a 4x4 just to get up the driveway..



Got my trusty little Webber going, snow coming down so awesomely…

 

[Tex]

Dinner looking good.

 

[skiki]

Where does one get the green chiles in the northeast?

They had them at Trader Joe's this past fall. But that was the first time I've seen them there. I threw them on my grill to char them up, peeled them, and froze the left overs. Keep your eye out end of summer-early fall for the hatch green chile gouda at TJ's. They only have it for a week or so before it sells out.

I'm so glad to be leaving NM this weekend. It has been torture watching the local news each night, hearing about the snow totals at the ski hills this past month while I sit here in ABQ with a wonky knee. But on the up side I have been getting my fill of green chiles.

 

[Lvovsky /Pasha/Pavel]

What’s over/under on Kachina lift being open to civilians tomorrow?

 

[KingGrump]

Probably pretty good.

It was a one day event. The event was schedule for 3/21 with weather date as 3/22. From Tex's pic, it was done. yesterday.

ETA: No worries, I can find better stuff for you.

 

[Lvovsky /Pasha/Pavel]

Probably pretty good.

It was a one day event. The event was schedule for 3/21 with weather date as 3/22. From Tex's pic, it was done. yesterday.

ETA: No worries, I can find better stuff for you.

When do you want to meet Saturday?

 

[Tex]

The event is still going on today. The still might open Kachina to public.

 

[KingGrump]

When do you want to meet Saturday?

Whistle Stop 11:00 AM.