Angel Fire ski mountain
— the dry powder the desert sky lets fall.
Not only on a wall.
Angel Fire ski mountain, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A ski mountain in the southern Sangre de Cristos, an hour east of Taos by way of the Palo Flechado Pass. The summit sits above ten thousand feet and the snow comes down dry, the way it does on the eastern side of these ranges. The town below holds the Vietnam Veterans Memorial chapel, white and quiet on its own hill. Families come back here for the gentle pitches and the cold, clean light. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Angel Fire Resort sits in the Moreno Valley of Colfax County, New Mexico, on the eastern flank of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The lift-served summit reaches 10,677 feet, with a vertical drop of about 2,077 feet down to the village base. The resort opened to skiers in 1966 and remains family-owned. Access runs from Taos over Palo Flechado Pass on US 64, or from the I-25 corridor by way of Cimarron Canyon. The neighbouring town of Angel Fire also holds the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, dedicated in 1971 and now a New Mexico state park.
The eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristos catches storms drained of moisture by the time they cross the Rockies, so the snow that does fall arrives dry and light. The resort reports an average of around 210 inches per season across 81 named runs and roughly 560 skiable acres. Base elevation is 8,600 feet, high enough that night runs stay cold well into March. The valley floor is one of the colder pockets in New Mexico, with overnight temperatures regularly falling below zero Fahrenheit through January.
Winter operations typically run mid-December through late March, with lift hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and limited night skiing on the Chile Express side. The mountain is reached from Albuquerque in about three hours via I-25 and US 64 through Cimarron Canyon State Park. The closest commercial flights land at Taos Regional, with larger service at Albuquerque International Sunport. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial chapel, two miles north of the village, is open daily and free to enter.
