Anyone Else Losing the Love for Lift Serviced Skiing

[raisingarizona]

@locknload ,Personally I find that a lot of newbies focus on digging pits when in reality the experienced person that has season familiarity with their home-turf snowpack doesn't really need to dig pits. If your on that snowpack all season long you should already have plenty of data stored from your prior observations alone.

 

[StuckonI70]

I'm losing the love for popular backcountry areas.
If it's not in a guidebook or #hotspotted, it's peaking my interest.

 

[Jerez]

https://www.pugski.com/threads/cimarron-mountain-club-private-ski-area-in-colorado.11469/

 

[clong83]

I kinda like the lift, but one of the great things about Ski Santa Fe is that you can ride a lift up then legally leave the boundary and enter the back country skiing to a camp ground several miles down from the base on the ski area road, or you can skin up.

If you do so, get a local that knows the route, it’s easy to disappear into the wilderness, ropes are also a good idea...

Check out “The Big Tesuque”

Big T is one of the best parts of Ski Santa Fe! But, as HDSkiing said, go with someone who knows the lines. Unpatrolled and all that if you get hurt. It is kind of hard to get totally lost, as you will eventually hit the ski basin road one way or the other. But it is easy to get into, shall we say, "non-ideal terrain" that you might have to hike out of.