[NMCCSC] Changed the subject to: Taos Area XC Options

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Vicky,

Re: Taos Area XC Options

You can do a nice ascent/descent tour from the Taos ski area up to Williams Lake.
Skins/kicker skins might come in handy if your skis don't have good grip.
About one mile from the ski area parking lot up to the ski area Phoenix restaurant, a low angle ski or maybe even able to drive there if the road has been plowed. One can either ski up the Rubezal ski run or drive/ski the road past homes/condos to the Phoenix.
>From the Phoenix, essentially the edge of the ski area, it's about 1-1/5 mile up to Williams, gaining about 1000' along the way. Williams sits at about 11,200'.
The valley floor route crosses a few avalanche chute runouts, so be careful where you stop. Climbing from the lake onto any of the surrounding slopes turns this relatively route into a serious avy beacon tour.

As Guy already mentioned, you can also tour up to Bull of the Woods and/or Long Canyon. Only turnoff for this tour is the [normally] too steep to ski 300' [SW facing] ascent out of the parking lot to get onto a lower angle slope and start touring. One also passes thru a snowmobile corridor that's technically private property. The first bit of Bull of the Woods Road is also SW facing and will melt-freeze cycle in the spring.

Another winter XC option I've wondered about is the Valle Escondido [golf course] summer home area. I normally stage vehicles there to mountain bike my version of South Boundary and I've always thought it would have potential for XC use. Valle Escondido is a hidden valley which faces north, just as few miles on the Taos side of Palo Flechado Pass. The golf course sits at about 8500' and I know there are snowmobile trails up towards the road to Garcia Park.

-Barry [aka Ritchey-TeleRanger]

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Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 4:54 PM
Cc: Cross County Ski Club
Subject: Re: [NMCCSC] Crested Butte

Hello,

I am looking for possible trails in the Taos area (other than Enchanted Forest) closer to the downhill area.  Anyone familiar with some x-country skiing there?

Thanks in advance for any input.
Vicky Kauffman

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 4:24 PM Mary Rose via NMCCSCeGroup <nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com<mailto:nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com>> wrote:
Who can help us with name and {trailhead) location of the ski we did in 2018 the last day of our trip to Crested Butte?
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Cheers,
Vicky


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