i'm not sure how i feel about this. on the one hand it's great that snowboarders are now "allowed" to ride on this sacred NATIONAL FORREST land, but on the other I say screw them. they are only allowing snowboarders on the mountain because they are losing$$$$. they should be given a taste of their own medicine and boycott the mountain! hell yeah, snowshredders unite! in the words of the great Chuck D, "fight the power!" if you must go at least clip your ticket from some douche in a bogner one piece... and then bang his hot wife and/or daughter (of legal age of course).

I live, work and play in NM. They will never see any of my money. I will ask as many boarders as I come in contact with to boycot their ass. I will go if I get a comp pass but I will be sure to not spend any money and insure that I find ways to cost them money.
The Blake family needs to be bankrupt so a heartless corperation can come in and rape Taos. Then lets see what all those granolla eating, "all loving", hum hearing hippies have to say!!!!

. . Too late

Holy shit.

Of the four remaining, Taos has always seemed the most vehemently anti-snowboard to me...

I GUESS OUR MONEY'S FINALLY GREEN ENOUGH.

fuckin BLEAOW! motherfuckers in your stupid mustachio'd faces! Welcome to reparations, crow served HOT ya fuckin miserable pricks!!!

I, for one, would like to see zero snowboarders go there and bail them out...I know that's not going to happen, it's gonna save them... but it would be mad poetic and shit, on some I am Legend last man on earth shit where the camera just pans out as their lifts slowly come to a halt... Skier chumps on their skinny 210cm Dynastars or some shit (they're not on fat shaped skis over there, are they? fuckin sellouts LOL), nowhere to go...

fuck them!

I was there, a lot of you were there, those times...AND THEY'RE STILL LIVING IN IT... Fuck them.

I could see myself on a road trip down there to pull up into the parking lot with snowboards sticking out of all my windows, just chilling counting a wad of cash leaning on the hood of the car..."hmmm, should I buy a lift ticket today??... hmmm... looks pretty empty... snow looks good... sunny and shit..." Some fuckin decrepit hotdogger squad begging on their knees for me to save their shit: "please sir, please! We'll show you all the chutes and stashes sir please! Oh would you be so kind and spare some of your precious time to rip this shit the fuck up? Sir? Please?"

psht fuck these too likkle too late motherfuckers LOL

I love it!

I know that place is sick, I've always heard it's siccmode... but man I don't know...

fuck Taos.

but hmm I heard it's sick and 30" in two days I mean sounds sick LOL

honestly, being all hardcore "boycott them" is about as weird as not allowing snowboards...I mean, a few well-placed pats on the back, some smug remarks to the most super-pissed off looking ski dudes, that'll probably do it for me hahahaa

fuck taos.

Seriously, this much anger over a resort ALLOWING snowboarding? I fully understand the anger over how long the decision took, the years of negativity from the resort, and the financial reasoning behind the lift. But seriously overall this is a good thing. The alternative, staying closed to riders, is worse in every way. You don't have to spend your money there, in fact I am sure most will not out of principle. I understand this.

However in the big picture this is good for all of us, it is one less place to continue the ignorance and hate that these policies create. Sometimes You may forget that it still exists, then you read some of the comments on the Taos forum click here, like these gems:

However, Taos SKI Valley is too steep and the runs too narrow for the inexperienced snowboarder. Darwinian natural selection will weed out the inexperienced and SKI patrol will be busy untangling the mangled bodies of out-of-control snowboarders from the trees.

I'm not happy about this decision at all...so much for being a 100% snowbaord free resort taos. And for future reference, i agree get more patrol(your gonna need it) and Taos Ski Valley will not be half as peaceful as it used to be.

I saw on the other question blog that someone suggested that TSV managment add deoderant in the bathrooms. I agree and feel all boarders should be required to shower prior to getting on the chairs, kind of like before you go into the hot tub.

Now there is nothing to distinguish us from everywhere else in Northern New Mexico. This is a sad day for a place that has always been about pure skiing. In fact wasn't last year's marketing ploy "the purification"? I have skied Taos for 14 years and I thought I would always be able to get away to Taos, where skiing was sacred. Not anymore. WHY!?!?!

I drive past Mad River every day on my way to Sugarbush to ride. I listen to my friends that ski there say that the terrain is too tough for snowboarders, that the bumps will suffer, and that all of us are punks. This from relatively open-minded people. When and if MRG opens to snowboarding, I will have trouble spending money there. They have promoted so much negativity that it will be difficult to embrace them. But I will thank them for finally changing and work with them to erase the years of hostility their idiocy has created.

It's about time. I had to ski there - ONCE - because of an enforced "Family Holiday" and I had an OK time as it's a gorgeous mountain and really the only decent area in the Southwest (I grew up in Arizona...). But the whole place really caters to what I call the "Vail Crowd". You know the type... the aprés ski folks who look down at Beaver Creek because they "wear blue jeans with their fur coats! Waiter, my chardonnay has gotten warm..."

Part of me wants to say F*ck 'em because, as with most family owned mountains, they're always in financial straits and this move is economically driven. Obviously, they smell the money.

But it's a great mountain and while skiing there, a thought ran constantly through my mind: "This would a great place to ride!" To deny yourself that would be, IMO, silly. Lots of mountains have opened up to snowboarders reluctantly and reversed their thinking a few years later when they saw how well they were doing and things weren't that bad.

There are still a LOT of snowboarders who are starting to great grey hairs here & there, so the sport is evolving and maturing. I may very well be one of the oldest people on here but I also watched the sport go from nothing to what it is today. Hey, when I started, there were basically 3 brands to choose from - Sims, Gnu & Burton. I rode in Sorels for the 1st two seasons!

I'm reserving judgement on Taos for a couple of seasons. I hope they see the light.

For those of you new to snowboarding (as in riding less than 10 years) you should realize that there were a lot of resorts that embrace snowboarding now that had bans in the past. In fact, most of them did at one point.
The current home of the US Open, Stratton Mt VT had a run that was banned to snowboarders for years, now it's named after a snowboarder. They also used to have a test to see if you were allowed to ride outside the beginner run (which I'm embarassed to say I failed the first time I took it on an icy day in 1986 with metal fins on my board.).
Alpine Meadows in Tahoe was the last in that area to open up around 96, and the general manager was widely quoted as saying that snowboarding was a fad and would be gone in 5 years.
I don't live in southwest, so the question of riding Taos won't come up, but if I lived there, would I ride it? Hard call, I hate to reward haters, but at the same time it's tough to pass up good terrain. If we go and show them that we're not a bunch of punks, cursing, and playing loud music in the parking lot, they'll come around and lose the attitude and backwards mentality and eventually even support snowboarding. If we go there with the attitude that we're getting payback, who's going to win? They might not close it to snowboarding again, but don't count on any parks or programs to encourage snowboarding.

with so many skiers bitting on snowboard fashion/image and riding styles (i mean a japan on skis-not possible, fuck tarts), it's no wonder that this shit-box resort opened up-or at least will in march...

hmmm, march the month of spring breaks when every texan is piss drunk and happy-this should be a good time to introduce snowboarding to taos (somebody call the burton p.r. machine and tell them to cash-in on opening day with jake).