Back from Taos. Knees intact, my son's friend broke his wrist trying to pull off a method grab while snowboarding. Landing was rough.
Anyway, weather was beautiful largely for all three days save for the third day when the winds really picked up. The broken wrist cut our day short anyway so we didn't have to really deal with it. Not a ton of runs open unfortunately but what was open was skiing impeccably and with non-existent lines, we could bomb runs and just have fun farting around and either carving or hitting the same jumps over and over again. That north-facing aspect keeps the snow in great shape.
As I said before, the best snow was up on Highline and unfortunately the only run open was Juarez but the snow felt great. If you're comfortable skiing up there, you can dodge (most) of the exposed rocks. Skiers right was skiing better and was less trafficked. Most people would drop in skiers left. Either way, you rarely had more than 3 people on Juarez at one time so just pick your line and enjoy.
Do I wish more of Highline was open? Hell to the yes. Hunziker? Yup. All the goodness in the trees? Yes. They could have opened Blitz. The four blacks that were open were short and meh so we just avoided them. Moe's for example was just a bunch of janky bumps full of slowpoke yardsales. But in the end, we had fun... save for the clinic visit. Staff at Taos is always top notch.
10:25 AM Saturday lift lines at the bottom of 4