Desert Skiing

水曜日更新担当の講師チーム"Zen and the Art of Aptitude"から
今日は講師・Kurt先生の更新です！
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A few weeks ago I was talking about watching the Winter Olympics, and I was reminded of my own limited experience of winter sports. Basically, this amounted to sledding as a kid and skiing as a young adult (shoveling snow doesn't count as a sport).

My first ski resort was on a mountain called Sierra Blanca, in southern New Mexico. This is a unique ski area; the mountain is part of an Apache reservation and stands like a sentinel overlooking the desert known as the Jornada del Muerta ("Journey of Death" in Spanish). The Apaches own and operate the ski area, and cater largely to people from eastern New Mexico and west Texas. The Texans included large numbers of cowboys skiing in their western style hats and gear, and who left trails of little brown spots - chewing tobacco - under the ski lifts.

At any rate, despite the spots, it was a nice place where we always had a good time. All the trees and snow contrasted remarkably with the desert, and we could easily make the trip in one day. I could see the mountain clearly from White Sands Missile Range, so every winter day I looked forward to getting up there on the weekend. One of these days I'll have to go back to New Mexico and show the wife and kids around. I'll have a lot of stories to tell them!


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・【Winter Olympics 】2010.03.03 (Wed)