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Taos Ski Valley is a village and alpine ski resort in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 69 at the 2010 census. Until March 19, 2008, it was one of four ski resorts in America to prohibit snowboarding. The Kachina lift, constructed in 2014, serves the highest elevation of any triple chair in the North American Continent, to a peak elevation of 12,481 feet (3,804 m).The village was originally settled by a group of miners in the 1800s, but in 1955 Ernie and Rhoda Blake founded the area as a ski mountain. The village was incorporated in 1996.In 2013, Taos Ski Valley, Inc., was sold by the founding family to billionaire conservationist Louis Bacon. It has a one to one ratio of expert to beginner/intermediate terrain, and has the highest rated ski school in North America.
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The first ski lift, a J-bar lift was installed in 1956. Ernie was managing the Santa Fe Ski Basin. The population was 56 at the 2000 United States Census census. Taos Ski Valley is a village and alpine ski resort in Taos County, New Mexico County, New Mexico, United States. Through 1957, the ski resort featured only one ski trail.
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