Weekend Travel: Tofu, brown rice and deep powder in Taos
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. It was a great gig, but far from the mountains — too far. As I plotted my escape from the Bay Area, I scoured all the ski literature I could find and narrowed my choices down to Jackson Hole and Taos. I was looking for steep and deep. I was looking for a place with some ski culture. I wanted to be surrounded by people for whom skiing was more than just a diversion or holiday pastime.
I road-tripped to northern New Mexico in my $600 beater van, a puke-green 1975 Ford Econoline that just kept on rolling through the golden aspens of late summer, delivering me safely to the ski valley parking lot just as the summer musicians were packing up their tubas and cellos. Nobody bothered me there, and I blissfully hiked for days in the
I lived on brown rice and tofu from the co-op, supplementing that basic diet with raspberries and mushrooms from the hillsides and home-brewed tea made from wild herbs; osha, gentian, barberry and more. I was cleansing my body. I did yoga and meditated daily to try and cleanse my mind and soul. The hippie vibe down in town was to my liking most of the time, although I was little skeptical when the owner of well-known hotel asked me about my horoscope early in a job interview.
A few days into my stay, I wandered into a tiny bookshop up at the base of the ski area. The name of the place escapes me now, but I remember the tall guy in glasses who looked me up and down and handed me a book called
Eventually, the first snow of the new season fell. First it sifted fine like flour, barely dusting the dark-green evergreens. Later it came in a cold wet wave, draping the peaks with so much snow that I couldn’t leave the parking lot until the plows made their first appearance of the autumn.
Parts of the book that made perfect sense. To me, it meant I should use my own passion for skiing to teach and turn others on to this amazing sport, hoping to give them the same happiness and fulfillment I experience through skiing myself. I ended up on the ski school staff at , a much smaller ski area just on the other side of the peaks. But I skied at Taos on all my days off, and I well-remember my first-ever run. I rode up Chair 1, skated across to Chair 2 and suddenly found myself on the High Traverse, looking down Spitfire.
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