Casual ski tour near Taos?

Hi,

I'm accompanying my girlfriend to Taos for a job interview. She wants to learn to ski and tour, with an emphasis on touring. I don't want to go to the resort and spend fat stacks just so she can learn the basics.

Where can we go get in a good long moderately uphill ski tour, in present conditions, near Taos?

Cheers,
Andrew

Jeremy Aslaksen wrote:http://www.taostrails.com/bull_of_the_woods.html Or skin up Wheeler.

Does she have no experience skiing at all? Because IMO, for a beginner skier, learning is more effective by going to the resort and lapping beginner runs with the chairlift. You need to get used to going downhill and making turns on easy terrain, and the more turns the better. It doesn't have to be a high-end resort of course for this application. If she does know how to ski and just hasn't toured you can ignore this opinion.

I come from a cross-country skiing background, never skied alpine when younger/learning, and think moderate or casual ski tours are awesome, but a couple of days on green runs at a resort did an enormous amount for my confidence in going downhill with some feeling of control.