Colorado looking good
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Too bad there is zippo on the horizon.
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Colorado looking good
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Too bad there is zippo on the horizon.
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Originally Posted by jummo
Thanks.
What's your opinion on Ski Arpa?
We skied at Arpa as a day trip from Portillo. It was a long ways with the last portion on very rough roads and slow going. The facilities are built to survive avalanches.
The terrain and scenery are incredible. We only got four runs which made for a long day and not much skiing. If you were staying locally and caught good snow with visibility, it would be amazing. Unfortunately, the Sponars only seem so interested in operating. They aren't open very much and don't seem to want to grow the business.
I would ski there again but would not build a trip to Chile around Ski Arpa.
Thank you for your insight!
While a walk from the base is still necessary, 3 Valleys south faces 3,000m + are skiable
Las Tortolas chair and Cerro La Parva , courtesy of Slava
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Valle Olímpico and Cono Este
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Got the place almost to himself
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Now that the temps are finally dropping, word is La Parva and their new snow cannons will be furiously making snow to connect the base and the 3.100 area.
VN doesn’t have that problem, with the base 200 meters higher, and more southern exposure. They have concentrated resources on lift maintenance, preventing the frequent breakdowns of prior years.
News is “MCP está renovando infraestructura. En La Parva están modernizando los andariveles Alpha, Águilas y Fabres; y sumarán un nuevo bistró francés. También ampliaron su tienda oficial y el rental de la base.”
“En Valle Nevado, en tanto, los upgrades se enfocarán en los andariveles Andes Express, Mirador y la góndola principal. Además, remodelarán los hoteles Valle Nevado y Puerta del Sol, mejorarán la zona para principiantes, y sumarán food trucks en la cima y nuevos espacios para arriendo de equipos.”
https://dfmas.df.cl/df-mas/coffee-br...-parva-y-valle
Word is MCP has shares in, but not control, of Andacor, while they wind their way thru the regulatory process to buy El Colorado outright.
Their ticket prices, including a randonee 2 ride ticket
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“non-ski” activities, and an inclusive discount
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On the La Parva/VN deal, Freeskier says
Power Pass: 10 days of skiing between Valle Nevado and La Parva, plus up to 15% off Valle Nevado hotel packages.
Ikon Pass: Up to seven ski days and 10% off lodging at Valle Nevado.
Mountain Collective: Up to 3 days of skiing and 15% off rack rate hotel stays at Valle Nevado.
My Purgatory employee pass gets me unlimited free days at both. Yay!
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August 15th...staying in VN for heliski and groomers at the resorts. Nice to have something to look forward to!
Indy pass adds Corralco
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This is useful to gauge opening dates
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It doesn’t matter much what the ski areas say. One big storm can mean opening.
For now though, with nothing on the horizon, late June is the likely date.
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Fun video from last year, lots of the 3 valleys, in particular La Parva. Takes a couple of minutes to get going.
K2 presents "Chile Today, Gone Tamale" - Sam Kuch, Addison Rafford, and Manon Loschi in Chile.
https://youtu.be/IzlFi32VxMI?si=aMdVnsqRCKm0L9IT
And another drone vid from around Bariloche
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A good effort at avalanche prediction after the recent dump, this one for upper La Parva
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andes.consciente
Boleti?n de Avalanchas #1 - Zona La Parva
¡Lanzamos nuestro primer boleti?n de la temporada!
Una herramienta clave para tu seguridad en la montan?a, elaborada junto al Centro de Ski La Parva y @snowlab_cl @pisteroslaparva
Epic long distance photography can be had in these parts, as attested to on facebook
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Shot from Concon on the Chilean coast, the Aconcagua, entirely in Argentina, looms above what I think is the top of ski Arpa. Or thereabouts. 150km away
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Authors and more here:
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Here is one of mine, 184km from V Quetrupillan to Tronador on the left.
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Eehhuuggee!!
Snow in the forecast for Thursday?!! Hope to see big depths in the short distance ski action photography from your home in La Parva by next weekend Casey.
The forecast has been bouncing around a 4 day 3 Valleys total of 35-90ccm for a few days now, most falling Thursday. It remains to be seen if this series of fronts is an atmospheric river event or a few days of chubascos (snow showers). Another front looms 9 days out, but that is beyond my confidence level.
Grooming has begun in Valle Olímpico
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Now that the coming “train of fronts” is morphing into an atmospheric river of 3 fronts, over 5 days starting Wednesday night, the event is becoming clearer, and the news is buzzing. The main worry, aside from some very intense rain in certain coastal areas, is the wind associated, especially in the first front.
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The rain and snow will get all the way up to the southern Atacama desert. Accumulations are greatest the central zone, from Arpa in the north to Las leñas in the south.
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Further south, from Chillan to Pucon
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Snow forecast is a blowup 6+ days out.
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Time to chalk up some “before” shots
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That looks bad but the webcam a couple hundred meters higher is more palatable
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I think the base is deepest around Maule, given precip to date and webcams
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Chillan is naked at the base
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But not so bad up higher on the chain
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Corralco and points south have a 1,700m snow line
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V Puyehue
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Just a reminder that there is a base on the higher Andes. V San Jose (5,800m) from Lo Valdes
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Valle Nevado is betting on the 60-80 cm forecast for tomorrow. Hopefully the wind won’t blow it all away.
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The dif between 3,000m (above) and 2,700m
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Corralco chimes in
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Huge numbers for the central zone for the next 10 days. Agonizing over whether I want to go this year, the prices for Las Lenas are way up:eek:but only about every third season there works ou.t Was planning on coming down and buying a car for seasonal use down there this summer, but life put those plans on hold(no longer have my full-time remote job). I guess i'll need to forget about this thread for a few days and really take a look if i want to spend August/September mostly living in a hostel.
Seems the series of storms is somewhat diluted now. But things are looking wintery
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This will peter out during the day, and the next front comes late Sunday. We shall see what becomes of all the brouhaha…
You don't really want to be in Las Lenas during the storm cycle.
I had a bunch of buds there during a big cycle in the 90's.
The first week was totally shut down. Then when the finally opened the lower lifts, it was total carnage.
Low viz and pent up skibums, lead to a lot of injuries the first day.
Then they had to help dig out Marta.
They ended up with one good day, out of two weeks.
Been there before, know how it is. The plan would be to go for all of August and September if they stay open. I think I jinxed the storm cycle by making an emotional post, now the amounts got halved(sorry Casey)Quote:
Originally Posted by Casey E
Forums still seem kinda broken got a 504 error and I clicked reply with quote to Shredhead but ended up replying to the post above that.
Nice sunset from Stgo today
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Snowed down to 1,400m, maybe 70cm fell at 3,000m.
Still dumping at 8pm, and the groomers are out at VN
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Too many social obligations to get out tomorrow, but I don’t see much being opened anyways… :)
Portillo still getting it
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While further out from the divide, the sun is out!
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And on dawn patrol, skinning up Colorado, who else but Slava
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Looking great from Portillo south
Tío Bob gotta get the shovel out
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Maule
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Chillan base
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Don Otto!
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Corralco got some rain
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Colorado steps up
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Tits!!!
What’s next is concentrated in the Maule - Chillán area
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Here’s some stoketits
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Big hit in the works for the Araucania, “yellow alert”
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Intense wind and rain for Sat night.
Trees down everywhere in the south, 260,000 clients without electricity.
So I’ve skied just about everywhere in the 3 Valleys for 48 years, getting an intuitive sense of avalanche danger. Up to about 25 years ago, I never really thought much about it, aside from some smaller wind crusted cornices. The only controls were on the ridge above La Parva, and Barros Negros would be closed until blasting finished. The ski areas started saying one sentence about off piste conditions about 20 years ago.
Now we have this marvel
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I live vicariously in this thread till fall up here.