It snowed all day yesterday above 8,000 feet
Yes, I just looked, and Taos Mountain (12,240 ft.) is still there. As for snow, contrast this image with the one a couple of posts below, taken only about four days earlier. And what a beautiful snow line along the mountainside.
UPDATE: This has been the Day of the Mountain for me. Below is a shot from a Wednesday evening mesa walk (now beginning as a series at FotoFeed), what you might call your Basic Taos. Not the same vantage point as the image above, but look at how much snow has melted off the trees on the mountains in less than 12 hours. If you were up there, there’d be plenty of snow you can’t see from here. But what a change in the view. I take a lot of pictures of the mountain, but it’s always so different. You just have to.
Basic Taos
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i don’t know about Taos Mountain, but the old Spanish dudes would tell me the Sangre de Cristos would stay snow covered all year in the old days.
not when i lived there, which was early 90s.
I’ve heard similar stories about how there would be snow on the ground from November through March. Amazingly, this year that was almost true. There was a full six weeks, maybe even almost two months, of snow cover at one point.
For that matter, I’ve seen photos of the Delmarva peninsula (Eastern Shore of MD) in the ’30s that show locomotives buried in the snow! Nothing remotely like that in modern times.
But then, globalfuckingwarming is just a hoax.
I think you are wrong (haha) about Global warming being a hoax – (tongue planted firmly in cheek here) but I am ABSOLUTLEY sure that you can’t be in Taos (even as a visitor – let alone live there I suppose) without being magnetically drawn to the mountain….I would really like to stay long enough to see if it would accept me or spit me out as the story goes….I can still remember the first moment I saw the Mountain….and how I sat and stared at it for over an hour drinking my morning coffee in the courtyard of the Taos Inn….It definitely is an energy source!!! Steve
Of course I don’t think there’s any hoax.
And I think one reason the mountain is special is because it belongs to the Pueblo. They believe it’s sacred and will never, ever develop it.