About Us
Guest Amenities
Guests of the Kandahar may enjoy the following comforts:
• Hot tub and steam room (towels provided)
• Exercise and game room
• High-speed wireless internet service
• Cable television or DishNetwork (packages may vary)
• Complete, fully-equipped kitchen (crock pot included)
• Wood burning fireplaces with plenty of firewood, firestarter and matches
• Wood burning fireplaces with plenty of firewood, firestarter and matches
• Balconies with slopeside views (including the Children’s Ski & Ride School)
• Spacious living rooms with queen sleeper sofas
• Humidifiers in each bedroom
• Cribs, booster seats or highchair available on request
• Coin operated laundry facilities (detergent provided)
• Iron and ironing board available on request
• Games and movies on VHS or DVD available in office
• Maid service for an additional fee
• Shuttle service with baggage handling assistance
• Centrally located gas grills and outdoor seating
• Shuttle service with baggage handling assistance
• Centrally located gas grills and outdoor seating
• Free local telephone calls
• Complimentary facsimile service
• Complimentary guest computer with high-speed internet and printer
• Generator power during outages
• Conference room*
• Complimentary facsimile service
• Complimentary guest computer with high-speed internet and printer
• Generator power during outages
• Conference room*
All condominiums are stocked with bedding, towels, paper products, hand soap and hand lotion. However, we do not provide personal hygene products such as shampoo and toothpaste.
*The Kandahar provides a relaxed environment for small business meetings, reunions or workshops. We can accommodate up to 20 people in our conference room and provide set-up and coffee breaks. Please contact us for group lodging rates at 1-800-756-2226 or at Kandahar@newmex.com .
History of “Kandahar”
To skiers and non-skiers alike, the name “Kandahar” is generally a puzzle and rightfully deserves an explanation. Kandahar, which is a corruption of “Alexandria,” is the name of a town in Afghanistan founded by Alexander the Great during his monumental march eastward to India and beyond.
To skiers and non-skiers alike, the name “Kandahar” is generally a puzzle and rightfully deserves an explanation. Kandahar, which is a corruption of “Alexandria,” is the name of a town in Afghanistan founded by Alexander the Great during his monumental march eastward to India and beyond.
The tenuous link between the town of Kandahar and skiing was provided centuries later by British general Frederick Sleigh Roberts. In August 1880, Roberts marched 10,000 men from Kabul to Kandahar—a distance of 313 miles—in 22 days to relieve the siege of a British garrison stationed there. In 1892 a grateful British government awarded General Roberts a peerage and he selected the title "Lord Roberts of Kandahar" to commemorate his role in the siege of Kandahar which he regarded as his finest achievement.
Lord Roberts became vice-president of the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club in 1903. Eight years later on January 11, 1911, a group of Englishmen held the world’s very first downhill ski race in Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland, and Lord Roberts lent his name to the ski trophy awarded to the winner. This trophy was known as the Roberts of Kandahar Challenge Cup and is used to this day for the premier of world downhill racing.
In January 1924, a group of British alpine ski pioneers decided to form a ski club at Muren, Switzerland. For want of a better name, they decided to take the name Kandahar and use a block “K” for a badge, thus starting what is undoubtedly the most famous ski club in the world. The driving force behind the Kandahar Ski Club was Sir Arnold Lunn, the man who invented and named the slalom ski race. Strangely enough, Sir Arnold always regretted attaching the old Norwegian name “slalom” to his invention, recognizing that the German world “torlauf” (gate race) would have been far more appropriate.
The Kandahar Ski Club was instrumental in organizing the first international ski meet ever to combine the results of both downhill and slalom races in deciding the winner. From that day forward a ski race meet was known simply as a Kandahar. On March 3 and 4, 1928, Sir Arnold and his friend Hannes Schneider inaugurated and supervised the first Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton, Austria, a full two years before the FIS recognized downhill and slalom racing and three years before the first World Championships in the Alpine Combined.
So there you have it: the metamorphosis of “Kandahar” from the name of an obscure Afghan town, to a generic term for a ski race, to a ski lodge at Taos Ski Valley.
Lord Roberts became vice-president of the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club in 1903. Eight years later on January 11, 1911, a group of Englishmen held the world’s very first downhill ski race in Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland, and Lord Roberts lent his name to the ski trophy awarded to the winner. This trophy was known as the Roberts of Kandahar Challenge Cup and is used to this day for the premier of world downhill racing.
In January 1924, a group of British alpine ski pioneers decided to form a ski club at Muren, Switzerland. For want of a better name, they decided to take the name Kandahar and use a block “K” for a badge, thus starting what is undoubtedly the most famous ski club in the world. The driving force behind the Kandahar Ski Club was Sir Arnold Lunn, the man who invented and named the slalom ski race. Strangely enough, Sir Arnold always regretted attaching the old Norwegian name “slalom” to his invention, recognizing that the German world “torlauf” (gate race) would have been far more appropriate.
The Kandahar Ski Club was instrumental in organizing the first international ski meet ever to combine the results of both downhill and slalom races in deciding the winner. From that day forward a ski race meet was known simply as a Kandahar. On March 3 and 4, 1928, Sir Arnold and his friend Hannes Schneider inaugurated and supervised the first Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton, Austria, a full two years before the FIS recognized downhill and slalom racing and three years before the first World Championships in the Alpine Combined.
So there you have it: the metamorphosis of “Kandahar” from the name of an obscure Afghan town, to a generic term for a ski race, to a ski lodge at Taos Ski Valley.