Ruidoso, NM – Home of Ski Apache – On the Verge Of Destruction By Wildfire Around noon on April 12th, all hell broke loose in the quiet ski town of Ruidoso, NM – home to Ski Apache. A combination of high winds and low snowpack has consistently contributed to the ongoing megadrought much of the west is facing, creating the perfect storm for a raging wildfire to take hold of the community. Almost a week […] Industry News Aunika Skogen | April 16, 2022 1 Comment
Where the Three Rivers Meet It could have been an old truck’s exhaust backfiring, we didn’t know. What it really sounded like was a gunshot, but we wouldn’t admit that. We only saw one other vehicle in the area on the way in. It was already dark when we decided to spend the night at the rusty, abandoned windmill and cattle tank. We were on […] Martin Kuprianowicz | September 16, 2021 0 Comments
Ski Apache, New Mexico Threatened by Already 4,000+ Acre Fire Which Started This Morning | Evacuation Orders in Effect The Three Rivers Fire near Ruidoso, New Mexico—home to ski area Ski Apache—is 0 percent contained at this time. It started at 10:30 am on Monday, April 26, and has grown to an estimated 4000 acres in size by 4 pm today according to Laura Rabon, public information officer with the U.S. Forest Service. The video below is courtesy of […] Fire Firebrains | April 26, 2021 6 Comments
How The Day I Almost Died Changed The Way I Ski I was certain that I was going to die when the ski patroller’s face turned white as a sheet after cutting open my ski pants to reveal the broken femur bone protruding from the center of my thigh. It was New Year’s Eve in 2014 as I lay bleeding out on the bottom of a small ski hill in the […] Crash Martin Kuprianowicz | September 18, 2019 6 Comments
A Tale of Ruidoso, New Mexico’s Historic Storm Last Season Every skier has a day during each season that sticks out in their mind more than others. One that is especially deep or the conditions especially right; a day where the stoke is unusually high, even for a pow day; the kind of day that gives you the mid-summer blues when you stop and reminisce. That day for me was […] Trip Report Martin Kuprianowicz | July 19, 2019 1 Comment
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