The Ski Report: How is Louis Bacon Reshaping Taos, the “Unresort” Ski Resort?

Our trusted Dallas Addison, lawyer and vacation/recreation home consultant extraordinaire, returned recently from a ski trip to Taos, New Mexico, where the once family-owned resort has been sold to conservation billionaire Louis Bacon. Bacon, the 55 year old founder and Chief Executive Officer of Moore Capital, is estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.4 billion. Late last year, he inked a deal to acquire the sleepy but STEEP New Mexico ski resort many of us know too well, Taos. Bacon graduated from Middlebury in Vermont, and was in my brother-in-law’s class for his Columbia’s M.B.A. Forbes says he has a history of land conservation efforts and “has personally set aside 200,000 acres of land in New York, North Carolina, and his home state of Colorado.” Sounds like we need to meet this guy!

Well, let’s see what Dallas Addison and his daughter say about the place under the sleek new management.