SKI, YOU CAN BE PART OF THIS NEW MEXICAN PASTIME. REPORTER: I KNOW, I KNOW. WHAT A DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENT I DREW HERE RIDING A SKI LIFT UP AT SKI SANTA FE. YOU KNOW, SKIING IS SUCH A B PART OF OUR OUTDOORS ECONOMY HERE IN NEW MEXICO, WE TALK ABOUT IT ON THE NEWS ALL OF THE TIME. BUT FEW PEOPLE ACTUALLY GET TO SKI. THE NUMBERS SHOW LIKE 4% OF AMERICANS DO SKI. SO, I GOT THE GO PRO ON HERE AND I WANT TO TAKE YOU DOWN A RUN AT SKI SANTA FE. AND WE ARE OFF. HOW COOL IS THIS? I’M GOING TO WATCH ALONG WITH YOU AND WALK YOU THROUGH THIS RUN. WE CHOSE THIS ONE BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU’RE SEEING RIGHT THERE. THAT IS GORGEOUS. YOU CAN SEE THE SANDIAS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN RIGHT THERE. NOT GOING TO LIE AS A BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE SKIIER THAT DROP OFF RIGHT THERE DOES KIND OF FREAK ME OUT A LITTLE BIT. BUT IN ALL HONESTY THIS RUN IS RATHER GRADUAL, IT’S A BLUE RUN OR INTERMEDIATE. IT’S CALLED GAYWAY, THIS RUN WAS NAMED AFTER THE PREVIOUS OWNER’S DAUGHTER. IT’S SUCH A POPULAR RUN THEY KEPT THE NAME. SO GAYWAY IS WHAT WE’RE ON RIGHT HERE. THE MOUNTAIN IS JUST FANTASTIC. THIS WAS A SKI RESORT THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 194 THINK OF THAT. SEVEN. -- 1947. 70 PLUS YEARS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GOING DOWN THIS MOUNTAIN LIKE THIS. WHICH IS SO COOL. THE ABRUZZOS WHO OWN IT NOW BOUGHT THIS IN 1984. WE TALKED WITH THE MOUNTAIN MANAGER WHO HAS BEEN ON THE JOB NOW FOR 1 WEEK, NO KIDDING H GOT HERE 7 DAYS AGO IN SANTA FE. HE CAME FROM OHIO. HE’S DIGGING NEW MEXICO. >> NORTHERN NEW MEXICO IS A HIDDEN GEM. HIDDEN GEM, THERE’S SO MUCH SKIING AROUND HERE AND AS AN INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE IT’S AMAZING TO GET PEOPLE INTRODUCED TO THE SPORT. OUR SOUTHERN STATES THINGS LIKE THAT TO GET THEM UP ON THE SNOW. REPORTER: WHAT A COOL JOB HE HAS. THEY ARE ALL VERY HANDS ON HERE TOO. HE WAS ACTUALLY TELLING ME THE OWNERS SON BEN ABRUZZO HOPS IN THE SNOW CATS ALL THE TIME, HE GROOMS THE TRAILS. MAYBE GROOMED THIS SPOT THAT I’M GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW. I AM HAPPY TO REPORT TOO, TH IS A BUSY RESORT I DID NOT RUN INTO ANYONE GOING DOWN I HEEDED THE ADVICE OF THAT SIGN YOU SAW A BIT AGO SLOW. SLOW AND STEADY IS MY MOTTO AS I’M GOING DOWN THIS. I MET ONE WOMAN SPEAKING OF HOW CONVENIENT THIS IS WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ALBUQUERQUE AND SHE GREW UP SKIING ON THIS MOUNTAIN SHE’S UP HERE TODAY WITH HER DAD SHE SAID SHE MOVED TO L.A. FOR A FEW YEARS. VERY HAPPY TO BE BACK HERE ON THE SNOW IN NEW MEXICO FAMILY AND WE ALL GREW UP SKIING AND WE LARNED OVER IN CHIPMUNK CORNER. AND IT’S GREAT FOR ALL 6 OF US TO GET OUT BUT TODAY IT’S JUST ME AND MY DAD. REPORTER: AND THAT IS THE END OF THE RUN GAYWAY RIGHT THERE THANKS FOR RIDING A LONG WITH US. BEFORE I LET YOU GO I DO WANT SPEED THE VIDEO UP REAL QUICK HERE AND SHOW YOU THIS LITTLE GEM AT SKI SANTA F THIS IS TOTENMOFFS THAT WE’RE COMING UP ON IT’S A CANTINA RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOUNTAIN. AS YOU CAN SEE VERY POPULAR FOR PEOPLE TO SIT AND ENJOY AN ADU BEVERAGE. WE ARE ON THE CLOCK TODAY SO WE’LL JUST SKI RIGHT ON B TODD KURTZ, KOAT