Snowboarding trip to New Mexico

For the weekend, I was in New Mexico with Brendan. Thursday and Friday night we were staying with his friend, Liam, in Albuquerque. Friday morning, we drove up to Los Alamos to Pajarito Mountain, which is a small but very cool ski area. We had really good snow, namely several inches of powder. It was quite cold most of the day (20 degrees Fahrenheit), but at least we were almost alone on the mountain. We arrived around 10.30 am and stayed until almost 4 pm. Then we drove back to Albuquerque, where Liam had already cooked a classic (hot) New Mexican dinner for us. He hadn't been able to join us on Friday. On Saturday, we were driving up to Sipapu with Liam and his friends Jeff and Laura (who gave us a voucher for 2 free tickets for Angel Fire!). Sipapu is a small but pretty decent mountain with lots of powder and nice runs through the woods (Gamble Trees, Worm and Wormwood). They also have a nice little terrain park with boxes and kickers. After Liam and his friends headed home for Albuquerque to be able to watch the superbowl on Sunday, Brendan and I were driving north to Angel Fire. We stayed at the Econo Lodge in Eagle's Nest. After hanging out at the local bar (Lucky Lounge?) we walked home for a good night's sleep. We got up very early Sunday and arrived at Angel Fire resort at 9am to claim our free lift tickets. Angel Fire is kind of a strange resort, because it's mostly flat on one side. It took us a while to find the more challenging runs, but then we had a lot of fun. The weather was beautiful and the snow conditions very good. So we did Hari Kari, Hell's Bells, Angel's Plunge (the most fun, deep powder in the forrest) all day long. In our lunch break we watched the locals competing in the terrain park and half pipe. After a few afternoon beers, we were heading back to Albuquerque to comfort Liam whose team (the Bears) lost to the Colts.
On Monday we spent half a day at Santa Fe Ski Area before returning to the airport in Albuquerque
to catch our flight back to Austin. Santa Fe is pretty small and has only a few demanding runs. The snow conditions weren't optimal due to the sunshine, but it was good enough for a last half day in the snow.