Ojo for me today!
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Arizona/New Mexico 2023 Taos Mini-Gathering Report and Pics
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Can you jump off the cliff into the pool? I would do a cannon ball and make a big splash, that’s fun.. I’m gonna do that when I go there and don’t try and stop me!!
Ojo Caliente is like a dream come true One of the pools is filled with stones or marbles or something and when you step in your ski boot foot will rejoice beyond belief.
That’s the Iron pool. I think it is sand on the bottom? I like the new foot soak.
Stoked for the racing I was headed in that direction for inspection, seeding start list runs and kids race.
I met a guy on the chair and he wanted to see the racing so we headed for the venue on the back side of Taos at chair four around 10am.
There's a super fun route there taking Maxie's and then Totemoff for wide open high speed carving. @FlyingAce and I go here first thing every morning we ski together. This is this is a pic of the surface after so many racers are carving headed to the start.
So fun to cruise fast on a fresh groomer in sunshine to watch a race...we stopped at the net.
This is this is where the fun starts. There's about 20 of us observing the kids race then the women's and men's timed runs. My new acquaintance Rick is seeing it for the first time and embracing all of it.
I overhear conversations of people mentioning the Mahre brothers and Ted Ligety who are here and then the guy next to me tapped me on the shoulder and says "check this out there's a World Champ right here".
I'm kind of watching for Graham Franklin, a kid skier, Resi Stiegler https://www.instagram.com/resistiegler/ and Erin Mielzynski https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Mielzynski and I already looked down and saw Head skis with the top sheet Porsche and a sticker that says Franz Weber. His helmet is also stickered Porsche.
We watch the runs.
I remembered the name Franz Weber but was not sure if it was World Cup or high speed skiing. When he says there's a world champ next to you I ask who and he says Franz Klammer.
2 World Champs next to me.
We spoke for almost a half hour about Masters ski racing, technique and form then Tamara McKinney showed up. All were kind, friendly, humble, and mellow It was a wonderful conversation.
I raced with Tamara and her brother Steve, RIP, at Squaw and Sugar Bowl when I was a kid. Franz Weber is a hoot...super kind and funny.
Franz Klammer was mostly analyzing the racing and his comments were awesome. He and Franz Weber were speaking German part of the time.
I did not get to ski with any of them but that sure would have been fun on these sunny frozen groomers.
I was just about where you were watching the race, but I didn’t get there until 11:30, then noon. I watched until 1pm when I got too cold...brrrr
Holy shit dude, this post deserves its own forum.
The people need more info! Where exactly and how was it?
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Skier’s right off Al’s, trees.
So it’s not April Fools thing?
on the screenshot below, is it closer to green, blue, or red highlights?
Blue. Just beneath Rhoda’s entry.
Come in on Chicken Al's and go across Al's. You will see a hand painted sign there. There used to be a entrance there to NA, we called Chicken NA. Using that entrance eliminates the required step up to NA from the old chair #1. Patrol had since closed that entrance since the installation of the new chair #1.
Dadou is the area to the skier left of NA. Between Al's & NA. Used to be a rope on the skier's left of NA to keep skiers out. Skied many years back with a former SSD and patrol. Was really sketchy. The area has been gladed past couple years after the big blow down and for fire mitigation purposes.
Dadou was officially open at around 10 AM yesterday. There are good lines in there. The snow in there was punky yesterday. No skier compaction ... yet. Watch out for the slash pile. Should be much better once they clear out the slash piles over the summer.
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Deb
Resi and daughter
NM Gov Gary Johnson
Eric Read
Wiley Maple
Ted and my dog Hazel.
Next year I'm going to post a pic of myself with you in the Star Struck thread!
@KingGrump do you have water in the house?
@KingGrump could get it fixed in a day. I hope they don't close for the season.
Good thing I'm not in charge I'd just order a couple truckloads of outhouses and fire up the lifts.
Good thing I'm not in charge I'd just order a couple truckloads of outhouses and fire up the lifts.