High Country Powder
Location, location, location. Ski Santa Fe has it in spades. The mountain is just a 20-minute
drive from the historic town of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an hour and a half from Albuquerque.
Nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the resort’s base area is at an elevation of 10,350 feet above sea level, said to be one of the highest base areas in the continental United States. And with the recent addition of the Millennium Triple Chairlift, skiers and snowboarders can speed quickly to the 12,075-foot summit.
Bring your camera because the views are awesome. Whether you like to cruise the groomed runs, are learning to ski or snowboard for the first time, or are an advanced rider, Ski Santa Fe has plenty to offer. They even have telemark and race classes, as well as adaptive skiing lessons for adults and children with disabilities. There’s plenty of variety in the resort’s 72 runs. The snowmaking and grooming staff is topnotch. And the resort recently added a freestyle terrain park known as “The Bone Yard.” Advanced skiers can blast down a smattering of bump runs, narrow shoots, glades and a few double black diamond runs. And the powder skiing is phenomenal.
Bring your camera because
the views are awesome.
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Insider tip for advanced and expert skiers: Check out the new glades at Sunrise and Sunset for wide-open powder skiing after a storm, and an area known as “Big Rocks” for your technical fix. The Chipmunk Corner Children’s Center at Ski Santa Fe is a full-service, onsite children’s complex that offers nursery and daycare, a snow play area to help introduce youngsters to the environment, and lessons for kids as young as three years old. Ski Santa Fe also recently launched the Burton Learn to Ride Center, a program that incorporates the use of proper equipment and proven teaching methods to make learning to snowboard easy and fun for everyone. And if you forget your gloves or hat, fret not! The Wintermill Sports shop has everything you need to ensure a perfect day on the slopes.
For the 2009/2010 season, Ski Santa Fe will open a new intermediate run called “Lobo,” an additional groomed run on the upper mountain that is accessed off the Millennium Triple Chairlift, plus the new “T-Bird Glade” black diamond tree run just below the Santa Fe Super Chief Quad lift. Finally, a new Carpet Conveyor at Easy Street will replace the Pine Flats Mighty Mite. Ski Santa Fe is famous for its telemarking, too. If you’ve been interested in free-heeling, Santa Fe is a great place to learn. This season, the area offers workshops and lessons for anyone—from kids to experts—who want to improve their free-heel technique.
Lodging and dining is in the city of Santa Fe, a world-class tourist destination. “The City Different” as some refer to it, is the oldest capital city in North America. It boasts an expansive variety of art galleries and museums, gourmet restaurants and fine hotels, inns and bed-and-breakfasts. There are also plenty of performance venues if you want to catch some live music or theater after a day of skiing.
Ski Santa Fe is blessed—it has some of New Mexico’s best weather and a variety of terrain for every boarder or skier, no matter the skill level. With its proximity to tourist services, Ski Santa Fe is a great location for the perfect ski vacation.
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