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Angel Diva
As some of you know, I’m hooked on the Taos Ski Week and skiing TSV in general after my first trip a couple years ago. Early last fall, I arranged to meet friends for the MLK Ski Week in January. Later on I decided to spend a second week at TSV when different friends would be at TSV. For this trip, we got lucky and caught a powder storm during the Ski Week that ran Feb. 3-8. The highlight for my lesson group was hiking to ski deep powder in steep trees off the Highline Ridge on the sunny day after the snow stopped.
The Divas who were around in early Feb included @Olesya Chornoguz , @nopoleskier , @Whistler Cathy , @floridakeysskibum , as well as @snow cat and her sister.
All the Divas, plus my ski buddy Bill, stayed at the Columbine Inn.
My other friends I met up with who aren’t connected to TSD included DaveB and his co-worker Dean from the DC area. It worked out that Bill and I could help Dave and Dean with transportation to/from TSV so that they didn’t need to rent a car or take the shuttle from the airport. Dave put together a mini-Gathering for another ski forum so there were also a bunch of other skiers I knew as well. Most of them are advanced skiers. Quite a few were skiing Taos for the first time. Several who did a Ski Week hadn’t had a lesson as an adult, or ever.
A Taos Ski Week is six consecutive group lessons, 9:45-12:00, Sun-Fri, for about $300 plus tip. Most students stay with the same very experienced instructor for the entire week. Groups usually have 7 or less students (2 chairs on the quad lifts) by the second day (Mon).
For those who missed it, here’s the TR from my trip in Jan 2019, which includes comments from the other Divas who were there Jan. 20-25.
https://www.theskidiva.com/forums/i...jan-20-25-2019-with-intermediate-divas.23500/
For an idea of how the weather forecast kept changing:
https://www.theskidiva.com/forums/i...-conditions-and-more.23139/page-3#post-381958
View up the canyon road to TSV
Snowy day, official total 5 inches
Looking down from Hunziker
Columbine Inn a mile from the TSV base
Lower Blitz
Kachina Peak, view from top of Lift 2
The Divas who were around in early Feb included @Olesya Chornoguz , @nopoleskier , @Whistler Cathy , @floridakeysskibum , as well as @snow cat and her sister.
All the Divas, plus my ski buddy Bill, stayed at the Columbine Inn.
My other friends I met up with who aren’t connected to TSD included DaveB and his co-worker Dean from the DC area. It worked out that Bill and I could help Dave and Dean with transportation to/from TSV so that they didn’t need to rent a car or take the shuttle from the airport. Dave put together a mini-Gathering for another ski forum so there were also a bunch of other skiers I knew as well. Most of them are advanced skiers. Quite a few were skiing Taos for the first time. Several who did a Ski Week hadn’t had a lesson as an adult, or ever.
A Taos Ski Week is six consecutive group lessons, 9:45-12:00, Sun-Fri, for about $300 plus tip. Most students stay with the same very experienced instructor for the entire week. Groups usually have 7 or less students (2 chairs on the quad lifts) by the second day (Mon).
For those who missed it, here’s the TR from my trip in Jan 2019, which includes comments from the other Divas who were there Jan. 20-25.
https://www.theskidiva.com/forums/i...jan-20-25-2019-with-intermediate-divas.23500/
For an idea of how the weather forecast kept changing:
https://www.theskidiva.com/forums/i...-conditions-and-more.23139/page-3#post-381958
View up the canyon road to TSV
Snowy day, official total 5 inches
Looking down from Hunziker
Columbine Inn a mile from the TSV base
Lower Blitz
Kachina Peak, view from top of Lift 2