Taos has some of the best terrain I've ever skiied and cool vibes from other skiers but big thumbs down to the ownership and FWT qualifiers keeping Kachina closed for 5 days. I'd be pissed if I had a pass here for 2 grand and they pulled that. Everyone working at the hill is on a crazy power trip.
The owner and like 20 of his friends closed it for themselves last Saturday when there was fresh snow and this week its been closed for a FWT qualifier. Every run I saw was super lame until the one where the guy fucked himself up bad and almost died. He was doing such a sick run noone else went far skiiers left into the rock pile he did and then for some dumb reason threw a 3 into a rocky tight chute.
I've always had the main FWT on the highest of pedestals and the pinnacle of competitive sports and had no clue this was going on so was annoyed when the lift was comp only. I did poach twice successfully but I almost got my pass pulled the third time.