Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Elevate your wine game. An annual fete in the mountains, the Taos Winter Wine Festival brings vinophiles and vintners from around the country to Taos Ski Valley for wine tastings, seminars, and…
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Tag: Skiing
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ELKE MAY’S FACE LIGHTS up when she talks about teaching kids to ski at Angel Fire Resort. “Kids have such a unique and special perspective on things that seem really routine to adults—even just…
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Flying High in Angel Fire
A SUMMERTIME TRIP UP THE Chile Express chairlift to the 10,677-foot summit of Angel Fire Resort transforms into a magical ascent above mountain bikers twisting, turning, and jumping down the winding…
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Ross Anderson Is Blazing Trails
W HEN ROSS ANDERSON placed second at the Pro Speed Skiing World Championships in 2001, he became the first person of color ever to stand on a speed skiing podium. The lesser-known form of ski racing is…
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New Mexico’s Ski Areas Step Up Their Game
ANGEL FIRE RESORT “We love kids at Angel Fire Resort,” gushes resort marketing manager Michael Hawkins. That sentiment comes through in the youngster-focused tubing and sledding opportunities…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Visit artist studios. Santa Fe Studio Tour With an abundance of creative power to showcase, the Santa Fe Studio Tour includes mediums from photography to sculpture and textile art. “We’ve been…
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Find Biking Heaven in Angel Fire
LEARNING HOW TO MOUNTAIN BIKE comes with all sorts of axioms that double as life lessons. Keep your eyes on where you want to go. Look past the problem, and you might just roll through it. But the…
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Los Alamos Heats Up for the Winter
WHEN ERIC SCHALLER GREETS me for a day on the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area slopes, the ski patroller welcomes me to “the land of no-lift mazes.” True to his word, not only do we ski directly up to every…
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Experience New Mexico's Skiing Wonderland
FOR THE EXPERT Want steep thrills? Don’t miss the cliff-riddled chutes and 3,250-foot vertical drop from Taos Ski Valley’s high point, Kachina Peak. Then again, the moguls on Al’s Run—named after a…
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Family Fun Beyond the Slopes
EACH YEAR, on the last weekend of February, a scene from Frozen plays out in the middle of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as a snow castle—complete with slides, staircases, and multiple rooms—rises…
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