Taos Ski Valley, NM, Preps for Active Shooters With ski season only 100 days out for Taos Ski Valley, the New Mexico resort’s village Police Department has taken a proactive approach toward gun violence and avoiding mass casualty events by providing trainings to village inhabitants only a month after two people were killed in a gangland shooting at Whistler Mountain Resort in British Columbia. Last week, the department […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 18, 2022 0 Comments
Taos Ski Valley, NM, to Raise Employee Wages by Generous 7.5% In response to record inflation, Taos Ski Valley Inc. (TSV Inc.) will raise employee wages by an impressive 7.5%. TSV Inc. is one of the largest employers in the county and the raise is an altruistic effort to provide its employees with a living wage. The ski resort uses MIT’s living wage calculator to guide them in setting wages that […] Industry News Brent Thomas | August 11, 2022 0 Comments
Top 11 U.S. Big Mountain Ski Resorts: Opinion From a Freestyle Skier Lists are inherently wrong no matter how you look at them. There will almost always be something to argue about. So why make them at all? Well…I love a good debate. There are no set factors that I decided to rate each resort on. The majority of this list are resorts that I have had experience skiing and I ranked […] Ryan Flynn | July 15, 2022 30 Comments
Recreational Marijuana Sales Have Already Surpassed $5 Million in First Week in New Mexico If you’re driving through Taos, NM any time soon, expect to see some new stores opening up with some… let’s call them relaxing products. Recreational marijuana sales were recently legalized in New Mexico, and businesses were given the OK by state officials to sell and distribute their products starting last week. On Friday, April 1st, New Mexico officially allowed […] Haleigh Hafner | April 15, 2022 0 Comments
[VIDEO] A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the World Pro Ski Tour at Taos Ski Valley, NM [arve url="https://youtu.be/Aw5F__wRZqs"] SnowBrains | April 14, 2022 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Recreational Marijuana Has Arrived in Taos, NM This is no April Fool’s joke—recreational cannabis will be available for purchase at dispensaries in New Mexico on Friday, April 1st. Locals in Taos are preparing for the inception of a brand new, very lucrative industry. There are currently multiple cannabis retailers filing for licenses to sell recreational pot in the state of New Mexico. Although many of these licenses […] Haleigh Hafner | March 31, 2022 2 Comments
[PHOTO TOUR] Taos Ski Valley, NM Gets 37″ of New Snow With Biggest Storm of the Year So Far View this post on Instagram A post shared by Julian Carr (@juliancarr) Taos Ski Valley in Northern New Mexico just got absolutely dumped on. The resort reported a 37″ storm total. The pictures and videos from there right now are insane. That is all I have to say. Please send some of that powder our way to other […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | February 3, 2022 0 Comments
“Free Tacos:” Ski Run at Taos Ski Valley, NM Renamed in Honor of Two ‘Free Taos’ Movement Pioneers Taos Ski Valley was one of the few skier-only resorts in North America until 2008. But then the steep-skiing Mecca changed its mind after over 50 years of being two-plank exclusive and began allowing snowboarders. Two New Mexico snowboarding legends, who tragically died one day apart from each other in June of 2020, were largely responsible for this shift. They […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | July 23, 2021 2 Comments