Geoff
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Our first time ever to these three ski areas.
We had a blast at Ski Santa Fe. The upper mountain triple had virtually no traffic even on a Saturday. There were only 2 groomed ways down so the Texans on rental gear stuck to the lower mountain quad. The snow was a little stale but it still had some give to it if you skied in the trees or in spots where the sun didn't hit. The cut trail under the lift and the cut trail to skier's left of the lift had firm bumps. The rest of the place hadn't seen enough traffic to bump up very much.
We hit Taos on a Sunday and thought it completely sucked. Where Ski Santa Fe was totally deserted on a Saturday, Taos was mobbed the next day. Major hassle uploading on the quad. Anything groomed was rock-hard with a strange mix of hack intermediates and squadrons of warp factor 9 junior racers and their parents who were at the mountain for a race. The non-hike-to ungroomed was overskied and too firm to be enjoyable. We sampled a bit of the hike-to but we didn't think the skiing surface was worth all the gasping from two people who live at sea level. The people vanished by Tuesday but the damage had been done to the skiing surface. Too many quad chairs for too little snow. I don't plan to return.
Wolf Creek was amazing. As long as you skied on north-facing steeper terrain, it was like skiing on talcum powder at the top. The terrain in the sun softened every day around noon and was entertaining until it refroze again around 2:30. The first day was a locals discounted ticket day so it was "crowded". That meant that 2/3 of the chairs had somebody riding them and you might have a few people visible once in a while when you were skiing. Thursday and Friday, we had the place to ourselves. We only skied a few hours on Saturday morning before bailing out to do touron things the rest of the day but we had the place to ourselves in the morning.
We had a blast at Ski Santa Fe. The upper mountain triple had virtually no traffic even on a Saturday. There were only 2 groomed ways down so the Texans on rental gear stuck to the lower mountain quad. The snow was a little stale but it still had some give to it if you skied in the trees or in spots where the sun didn't hit. The cut trail under the lift and the cut trail to skier's left of the lift had firm bumps. The rest of the place hadn't seen enough traffic to bump up very much.
We hit Taos on a Sunday and thought it completely sucked. Where Ski Santa Fe was totally deserted on a Saturday, Taos was mobbed the next day. Major hassle uploading on the quad. Anything groomed was rock-hard with a strange mix of hack intermediates and squadrons of warp factor 9 junior racers and their parents who were at the mountain for a race. The non-hike-to ungroomed was overskied and too firm to be enjoyable. We sampled a bit of the hike-to but we didn't think the skiing surface was worth all the gasping from two people who live at sea level. The people vanished by Tuesday but the damage had been done to the skiing surface. Too many quad chairs for too little snow. I don't plan to return.
Wolf Creek was amazing. As long as you skied on north-facing steeper terrain, it was like skiing on talcum powder at the top. The terrain in the sun softened every day around noon and was entertaining until it refroze again around 2:30. The first day was a locals discounted ticket day so it was "crowded". That meant that 2/3 of the chairs had somebody riding them and you might have a few people visible once in a while when you were skiing. Thursday and Friday, we had the place to ourselves. We only skied a few hours on Saturday morning before bailing out to do touron things the rest of the day but we had the place to ourselves in the morning.
), it is generally "set for the season."