Maybe, or Easter Bowl, or possibly Sunset Bowl/Columbine Cliffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by skinipenem
Nice send.
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Maybe, or Easter Bowl, or possibly Sunset Bowl/Columbine Cliffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by skinipenem
Nice send.
Hmmmm… Sunset bowl or First Tracks/Easter bowl
Yesterday was a fun day at Santa Fe
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Yeah, under #5-#6 or thereabouts.Quote:
Originally Posted by skinipenem
Indeed! Quite a few rocks in the takeoffs and landings too 🙃 but things are filling in.Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
Sweet!!! Headed to Santa Fe this weekend....
Question about Taos. The construction at the base. Is that presumably...or hopefully, a remodel/repoening/expansion of the St Bernard? I miss the Rathskeller.
Brace yourself for spring break crowds at Santa Fe. Get there early (8:30 at the latest). Monday was a x-mass like shit show at the base. Luckily, the visitors mostly stick to bunny slopes.
Construction in Taos is st bernard being rebuilt.
Like Lvosky said, the spring break crowds are kind of brutal. Go either early or later in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by SILENCER
The St. B got torn down. :fuckyou:Quote:
Question about Taos. The construction at the base. Is that presumably...or hopefully, a remodel/repoening/expansion of the St Bernard? I miss the Rathskeller.
The construction is going to be entirely new. I don’t believe anything recognizable of the old St. B will remain.
^ well supposedly they took apart and cataloged the bar restaurant so some historical re-creation should be in the works.
Talked w jeans wife and a few other old heads who worked there for decades. Good vibes of a time past. I'll be on the hill Sunday forward hollar if around mags..
I just looked up an article about the new St Bernard's; I read something similar about they kept the hearth and some other stuff like you describe. That's cool. If even a part of it lives on, it's not a pure "scrape" and is supposed to have a Euro looking vibe when done.
Thank you for the Santa Fe warning too everyone, duly noted. Looks like some fresh is coming in too (both good & bad) for the weekend!
Taos winter 2025 passes are on sale. Can be used this season after March 25
We have something similar here at Highlands that SkiCo started this year. $2,500 for up to 10 people for early access to the Bowl. SkiCo has at least owned it and publicized it, unlike what appears to be some shady preferential dealings at TSV. I haven't heard much chatter about it this year and I doubt it's that popular. Still not a direction you want to see any ski area going, but not surprising in the era of $200-300 day passes.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
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Yeah, if it's completely privately held land then one can do whatever they please. The forest service leased land should have stipulations imo. I'm guessing they probably don't, but that could possibly change with public influence.
Optics. Not a good look. But imo not a big deal. If I bought TSV and put 100M into it, the 3 times I came to ski a year getting a lap in early isn't that big of a deal.
Shut up peaseats!;)
Agree. it may bring out the melt if I were waiting and witnessing, but on reflection NBD. And certainly not the butthurt that should drive rules and policy given potential for unintended consequences.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
Makes me feel real special if I get the call for some directed skiing by patrol for something that is gonna open soon. Would suck if someone telling them they gotta watch who they enlist for things like this because some new policy.
Unintended consequences that can affect you directly. Definitely don't want that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ENDOOO
Dropping the rope for that long ass hike and then spinning the lift for those special few to snake the lines? Beyond cheesy and full douchebagery. Bring back the Blakes.
This one time I stopped at the patrol shack at the top of chair 2 & 7a to say hi to a patroller I know. He said he was on his way to Pierre’s to open it for the first time - did I want to go? Fuck yeah! Great fucking untouched shot. I guess I’m glad that didn’t end up in the Taos News.
Don't disagree with any of this. But asking the forest service to somehow make access equal for everyone through some application of the terms of the special-use permit...well that just sounds like it has the potential to fuck something up for someone other than billionaire VIPs. Hopefully getting called out in the TN is enough to prevent the blatant douche moves.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
I could be wrong but it seemed like the Blake's didn't want it and it was in borderline disrepair in 2013. I'm a touron and claim to really know Jack shit.
For many transactions, there is a pessimistic seller and an optimistic buyer.
Fun night at the ski patrol party. Wow haven't been in a bar type scene in forever. Tons of hot chicks and rad ski bros. Good times.
That is completely different and happens everywhere. Anyone could have followed you and been there for the opening. Was it crazy Eske?Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
I know - just being silly/humble bragging. The ‘troller was a guy I’d actually mentored on the Santa Fe patrol that went to Taos.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
I'm arriving at Seco in a few hours.. staying with some friends that live there.. I'll be skiing starting Monday. I would love to meet any maggots that happen to be around during the week.. mustard yellow free ride systems coat gray pants orangish Nordica boots... pm me if you want my phone number...p.s.... Happy hour at Abe's at about 4:45 today....p.p.s. ....no happiness......Abe's was closed today...I was told a couple of deaths in the family was the reason ... Not sure what their future operating hours will be.
The fresh didn’t really pan out yet this weekend. Hoping overnight/tomorrow morning will deliver. If you ski Santa Fe tomorrow (Sunday) and want to take fee laps together, send a message.Quote:
Originally Posted by SILENCER
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bougie is a ripper. tsv skiing well. good to be back
lift maintenance guy says: the 11 electric snomo's they bought are garbage, shut off randomly, break and cant be fixed. noone wants to use them.
the insanely expensive(more than 2x a reg one) snowcat they have takes 5 hrs for a charge to operate for 2 hrs, all it can do is drive around, cannot move snow or groom.
huh
Santa Fe got the goods. Was able to find fresh track all day long.
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Oh, I miss living thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Lvovsky
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Fun in the sun.
We ended up only skiing SF on Monday. Would've loved to rail with ya had we been one day earlier....thanks for the invite regardless! Texas spring break being over plus it being a weekday was quite excellent. Even though snow came in low vs forecast, the snow was great in the trees still. After my fam were done for the day I did laps in Tequila, Sunrise/Sunset, Highline, Richard's, Big Rocks, Chiles, etc. I love your mountain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lvovsky
Get this, we were at little 'ol Sandia on Sunday, tail end of their 20" cycle. It was a shitshow getting up there, but because of that hardly anyone made it and the snow was incredible. Like a private mountain. I learned to ski there wayyy back, and Sunday was my kiddos first time. I've never skied that place so deep. Ruled.
Man. TSV reallllly pumps up those EV cats on their social feeds. This is disappointing (but maybe not surprising) to hear. Just a shame that they were trying to do the right thing, spent a fortune doing so...and they're junk it sounds like.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
I guess I never really put 2 & 2 together in my pea brain. It's all over the news how the cold affects standard electric cars. But a snowcat lives its entire life in the cold. Hmmmm...
Snowcat or Snowmobile? I'd be shocked if they had a cat with enough battery power yet.
We need the wealthy like tsv to be the early adopters of new tech. That's how we keep moving forward. The maintenance crew is gonna bitch no matter what. That always cracks me up when employees are concerned about costs. They're not going to get paid more if the boss buys cheaper shit.
Often times the more expensive tool/equipment is much nicer to work with and gets the job done faster, and that’s what saves money in the long run and might put money back in a worker’s pocket. And I feel like most of them understand that. But Taos may have jumped the gun on the electric cats. Sometimes being too early of an adopter gets you burned. This sounds like one of those times.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
Early adopters know or should know that it may not be ideal and there will be issues when compared to the proven tech, but they're willing to push forward for the sake of mankind. The guy who bought tsv seems to have that mindset and money is not an issue.
surely, you jestQuote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
Don't B fooled
Fun in the sun on the hill right now. 20-28 inches incoming. Mon Tue should be killer
Sleds....but a snowcat too. A big, fancy green-painted one.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
https://www.powder.com/region-colora...ectric-snowcat
They literally bring in out w the marketing team, shoot some bs content, and drive it back to the shed.
It isn't a big snowcat. They bought a small snowcat to maintain the kids park area of the hill. A job which seems to fit the bill for this unit. They didn't buy a large electric snowcat designed to move massive amounts of snow to groom the hill top to bottom, so it isn't really a surprise this unit can't do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by SILENCER
I'd like to hear more about how it is doing at the task for which it was purchased?
I appreciate the second hand anecdote from the Taos worker though for sure, but jumping to conclusions from one persons point of view seems like confirmation bias.
If it is true the snowmobiles are glitching, that sucks. But why? This would be an early adopter failure, not a proof of concept failure. Seems like electric sleds at ski areas where range isn't important are a good fit and from all reports elsewhere electric sleds are a blast to operate
This winter there were numerous articles and news reports on Tesla's failing to charge in the cold during our one week cold snap, meanwhile we drove by about one big rig a mile on I 80 going to Colorado that were frozen up stranded on the side of the road. My turbo in the garbage VW I drive shit the bed till I pulled over and let the underhood temps warm up. You could conclude from the articles that electric cars suck in the cold, but my experience is that all vehicles are fucked by extreme cold to some degree. My diesel truck at work almost never fails to break down on me when it gets super cold. Piece of shit makes my gasser VW look like a Toyota but all the deleted diesel particulate spewing dick swingers are the first shit to over electrics in the cold ignoring their own fallibility.
So, I'll wait for more info, good, bad or otherwise. Progress is complicated.