We skied 5 days after an early season storm, and we had fresh tracks all morning. Pretty amazing skiing on this side of the world. The norm is to use old school GS/All-Mountain skis and rip the groomers no matter the conditions. Basically off-piste skiing does not interest people here.
Thus a few gringos and I left from Providencia early in the am, and left Santiago going up a fairly steep mountain road until we reached snow. The base elevation of Valle Nevado is 9,000 feet. That is equivalent to the top of Squaw in the US. The Andes>The Sierras.
(a view looking south of the surrounding range)
This is Valle Nevado Resort Walking in from where the ski shuttle dropped us off. I highly recommend using SkiVan or SkiTotal services to get from urban Santiago up into the three nearest resorts.
This is me. Behind me are three big peaks. To my right is the hikeable terrain/cirque of La Parva ski resort. It is a small, yet vertical resort with much more challenging terrain than Valle Nevado. I plan to ski there soon. But behind me are cerro leonara, cerro plomo and cerro bismark. The big one with the glacier going across it is Cerro Plomo. It is a crazy mountain, almost 18,000 feet.It was a great day, cant complain when you are sliding on snow!!
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