Albuquerque -- An Office profile;

              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.