Well...
I had the pleasure of devirginizing my silly ass of South America this year, and it was freaking cool. After landing in Santiago and making the road up to Valle Nevado, this was the view out my hotel window
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Some terrain, eh?
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A nice sunrise over the Andes
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Looking down towards Santiago and the whinging road
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The first two days were kinda meh, but we got a little overnight and day 3 (monday) was bluebird pow. In the spirit of Bob Weir, "Haaaaaa!"
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Go chair go -- I'm dying!
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I really like this photo; makes me want to schralp
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There was some of this
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And some of this
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And it continued
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But hey, the Chile Dogs need some lovin'. This is Tima and her faithful patrollemn
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I saw some dudes checking out the snowpack for shears
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But I think they were looking the wrong way
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It was pretty calm for most of the morning but it started whipping it up later int he afternoon
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Some Valle Nevado parting shots
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Cheers to the mags and all like minded folk
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And then we headed down south through the cold rain and wind to chillan. Someone saw an alien with antennae that was inhaling bacon flavored fart wax, but all I could make out was this
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The next morning near Termas De Chillan, this was the wakeup call
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My bad, I got my zeros mixed up, it was supposed to be this
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We had a fruckin increibel pow day this day, and unfortunately I don't have the photos to do it justice, so I'm just going to let the chile dogs and the pics do the talking from here on out.
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And this guy was the bomb sniffing dog at the Santiago airport. I really wanted to smuggle him in my carry on, but he busted me for my toothpaste and sunscreen.
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