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Land of Enchantment, Study in Contrasts Office Profile: The weather had been mild all week — close to freezing at night but warming up quickly to the high fifties or low sixties during the day as the sun rose in a cloudless sky. It was warm for early February, even by New Mexico standards. The sun was bright and the sky clear as audit manager Sam Weid-man drove west on Interstate 40 toward the town of Gallup, some 140 miles from Albuquerque, for an early-morning appointment at Atkinson Trading Co., Inc., but he could see the dark gray clouds piling up over the Zuhi Mountains ahead. The storm front was moving rapidly — last night's weather forecast of snow at the higher altitudes would be accurate. He ran into the snow fifteen or twenty miles outside Gallup, which lies nestled in the Zuhis just south of the huge Navajo reservation sprawling across the northwest corner of the state and into. Arizona. Sam had mounted all-weather tires on the..gar the week be- Karolyn McCain, office manager for DH&S Albuquerque, and staff accountant Steve McKernan (both on balcony) discuss snow conditions with skiers at the Sandia Peak ski area. Located in part of the Cibola National Forest, the ski area, more than 10,000 feet above sea level, can be reached by a 2.7-mile aerial tramway — said to be the world's longest — by an automobile road, and, for the more rugged, by a hiking trail from the base. Sandia Peak is hardly half an hour from downtown Albuquerque, while Taos, with some of the best ski slopes in the country, is less than three hours away by car.