The Taos trip was with the Fall Line Ski Club in 2003.  We flew into Albuquerque through Houston and then took a bus to Taos.  Since it's in New Mexico, it's quite warm there in the winter, and we were surprised to be walking around outside in short sleeves on the way to s ski trip.  Even in the town of Taos it was still pretty warm.  One the bus started climbing the mountain, though, it got cold - fast!   It was definitely below freezing by the time we got to the lodge.

Taos isn't an area where skiers are coddled.  There's no big base lodge to show off your neat ski clothing.  Most of the trails are marked one level harder than at other areas.  Some of the chair lifts don't have safety bars, and there's one lift that appears to be made of old canvas lawn furniture.  It's a tough mountain for tough skiers.

The resident pro skier is Olympic Gold Medalist Deb Armstrong.  She skies with some of the guests a couple of times a week, and Mark and I got to take two runs with her and chat with her on the lift.  Here's a shot of me with her on one of the runs

Here's the base of the mountain.  Only a small lodge and one lift.  

This is Kachina Bowl.  I'd never seen bowls before skiing at Taos.  They surround an entire area and have many trails coming down from the top.  At Taos you can take the list almost to the top, but then you have to walk a significant distance (carrying your skis, at about 12,000 feet of altitude) before you can take a steep trail back down.  I didn't do it, but Mark did.

Here's a lodge near the top of one of the lifts.