Saturday, August 28, 2010

My sister came to Chile!...our adventures Part I

Nevados de Chillan was the goal.
Begin long bus ride.

Mountains on the left, we are going south.

Follow the green line.

Special reading material aka best thing my sister brought from home for me. Winter is coming...

This place is beautiful. Unlike the skiing outside of Santiago, there are trees!! and bushes and greenery when you look down the valley. The skiing was really good. So so much snow, thus all the runs were open. Conditions were warm and kinda springy, but very fun the same once the bowls got some sun.

Katie photographing the gnar.

Going up the chair.

Off Las Tres Marias, the longest ski run in Chile, we stumbled across a giant kicker in the nearby backcountry. We sat down to watch some skiers session it.

This was cool.

Unknown skier. Throwing an off axis spin with grab after hitting the jump switch. Really impressive stuff.

The jump and the surrounding wilderness. Beautiful. So much ski-able terrain all at a fairly gentle angle.

Katie, ripping.

...more to come from this trip....

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