We drove to Taos today. Up until the last 20 miles it was pretty uninteresting with some mountains and a lot of desert. The road then follows the Rio Grande through a spectacular ginormous gorge for 10 mi. or so. The gorge is just wide enough for the river and the road and there are constant landslides that try to eliminate the road part. In fact, the road crew was out cleaning-up a slide today.
We also took a the 20 mi. drive up to Taos Ski Valley to check out the slopes. The drive was beautiful as the road followed a creek up a narrow Alpine valley. You can only see one slope from the parking lot, but it is straight up. It looked like a double black in my rating system, but it is rated single black according to Taos Ski Valley. Hmm, skiing out here could be a wee-bit different. We'll see how it goes. There are several smaller and less steep ski resorts in the area, so we might give them a try first as a warmup to the big boy slopes.
Editor note: Bill and Cindi did not follow protocol and did not take any pics today, even though the scenery was worthy. They will be docked a days pay.
Response to editor: Yeah the scenery was worthy, but we couldn't stop along the Rio Grande 'cause, as I said, there was barely enough room for the road. By the time we headed to Taos Ski Valley it was almost dark so the pics would not have come out anyway.
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