Events Calendar
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Feb 4, 2012
Enjoy a moonlit tour on cross country skis or snowshoes at the Enchanted Forest.
Come join us as we treck across the Enchanted Forest by moonlight.
For more information please call 575-754-2374
Feb 6, 2012 to Feb 11, 2012
Firefighters, Police Officers, and Public Safety workers can enjoy January Bargain Day Rates on single day lift tickets this week if you show your badge, Employee ID, or other form of employment verification. Come enjoy some fun challenges against your coworkers, get great prizes, and hit the slopes!
Feb 16, 2012 to Feb 21, 2012
Red River knows how to celebrate Mardi Gras! Daily parades with colorful floats, krewes in costume tossing Mardi Gras beads, live creole music, and spicy Cajun cooking. Laissez les bons temps rouler (that's Cajun for "let the good times roll")!
Annual events include a children's ball, day parade down Main Street, bead tosses at the ski area, drink making contest, a grand costume ball, kids costume contest, cajun cook-off, burning of the wild Tchoupitoulas (yep, that's how you spell it), crawfish boils, downhill gator race, and more!
Click Here for the Schedule of Events and More on the official Mardi Gras in the Mountains Website.
Feb 17, 2012 to Feb 20, 2012
A Red River Tradition. Come see the parade and fireworks at the Lift House Bar and Grill at 7:00 PM on Saturday night.
Feb 18, 2012
Experience the Enchanted Forest in a different light.
Snowshoe through the Enchanted Forest by the glow of the moon and your headlamp to an old fashioned cookout, complete with s'mores! Guided tour, $25.00 per person, $5.00 snowshoe rentals. Reservations required.
*Snow permitting - call for conditions*
Feb 25, 2012
The second USASA event at the Red River Ski Area will be a Slopestyle Event. Adding another competition to the Southwest qualifiers. Our goal for this event is to give the Southwest competitors another opportunity to gain points to qualify on the National level. This is going to be our first year to host an event, with more to follow. The Slopestyle course is going to be in our Hollywood Terrain Park located near Broadway Station. It will include two jumps with 2 lips, one for the little guys, and one for the big guys, along with a variety of boxes and rails to finish the course.
The USASA (United States of America Snowboard/Skier Association) is a grassroots organization that promotes safe, fair and fun events for snowboarders and skiers while fostering a competitive spirit. Every year riders compete in slalom, giant slalom, slopestyle, boarder/skier cross and halfpipe events at the regional level. Skiers can be involved in the slopestyle, skiercross and halfpipe events. Riders accumulate points to qualify for Nationals. The goal is to promote fun lifelong activities for snowboarders and skier of all ages.
Click here for additional information on the USASA website.
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Feb 25, 2012
Desserts & Cross Country Skiing...Yum!
Picture this: You're cross country skiing on groomed trails through a snowy forest when suddenly you come upon a group of people with chocolate on their faces licking their fingers and eating from a table laden with delectable goodies. Yes, it's time again for Enchanted Forest's most popular event: "Just Desserts" Eat & Ski. The theme is simple: Enchanted Forest puts homemade desserts from fine restaurants in Red River out on a five kilometer course and skiers ski out to the different sites and indulge. There is no competition involved, although skiers are advised not to start too late if they want to sample some of the more popular concoctions, such as, 18 Layer Chocolate Cinnamon Torte, White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake, Tequila Lime Pie, Black Forest Cheesecake, Mountain Berry Cream Flan, Fudge, Wild Blueberry Pie, Texas Red's cheesecake, Triple Chocolate, Kahlua, Espresso Cake and much more.
"We've been lucky to have sunny days every year," said Judy Miller, founder. "People sit around the picnic tables and socialize while they eat. It's great, because we've been blessed with beautiful weather pretty much every year. One year it snowed a little, making for one or two soggy desserts, but our skiers were undaunted. The sun did finally come out and it was a beautiful day." Miller says the event can also be a challenge when the sun shines a little too brightly. "One year a restaurant brought an amaretto ice cream pie," Miller said. "It was delicious, but it was also a runny, sloppy mess by the time the skiers got their spoons out!"
The area's founderer, John Miller, dons a cookie monster costume for the event and cross country skis to different tables, checking on participants and sampling a few of the treats. "I'm in charge of quality control," he says with a grin.