A Foot of Fresh POW!
14:54:30 MST on Friday January 20 2006 #Yesterday Taos got a foot of fresh pow, a foot you read me right. This goes down on the 25-35 inches they have as a base - in what is apparently the worst year for snow in Taos' 50 year history. It's basically sucked up there until today.
One of the advantages of working nearly every moment on CastingWords, is that I get to take my breaks when I want to. So today I headed up to Taos for a 1/2 day. The power was excellent - the although much of the mountain pretty well skied by the time I got on the mountain a little before 10. However there where still plenty of pockets of great fun, and plenty of fresh snow to keep the runs nice and soft.
A lot of the pow very quickly became packed pow and base. Which is probably a very good thing, because on the front side in particular you could cut through the pow - and what was below was often very icy.
On the backside what was below was rocks. And for that reason a lot of the runs where closed -- including all the stuff off of the Kachina lift - our favorite lift, and one of the lifts that is not runny yet. Still lots of new stuff will be opening. Three new runs will open up today and tomorrow.
The skiing was a great deal of fun. And the weather looks to hold for a while, so maybe it will stick - and this will be the late but great skiing year. We hope at least !
After the skiing I went back to the car to my insulated Bento Box - of Indian food, rice, and panneer jalfrasi, and mango pickels. Man was that good - one of the best lunches in a very long time. And wow does the new bento box keep things hot! Impressive! And yummy :)