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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. It was a warm New Mexico afternoon, and I was entering the last hour of a Level 1 Yellowbird lesson, a full-day beginner program at Taos Ski Valley. I stood in the middle of the beginner hill, scanning the chairlift and slope for my far-flung group. Suddenly two smiling students zipped by making beautiful wedge turns. On the chairlift I found four other clients, paired up and chatting away as a warm breeze caressed the lower mountain.