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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.
Chile has great places just outside Santiago for weddings, old haciendas complete with capillas, vineyards, fountains etc. And great views of 80km of the Andes to boot. Here a view from Fundo Patagonia (what else?) of the Cajon del Maipo, with V Tupungato on the left, 90km away and half in Argentina.
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Heavy snow falling today
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Looking better, but still not much snow at 1,600m in Corralco
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Still dumping, getting the blood boiling
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Wednesday partial opening announced for LP
Not many webcams running further south, but I found Cerro Bayo running for lift rides
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Catedral and Las Leñas webcams are down.
The latest precipitation stats, with relevant stations highlighted north to south
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Pretty close to normal at all latitudes, save Chillan. The big dif is that the rainfall to date in the south hasn’t fallen as snow at the ski area bases, while Curicó (Maule) and north it has for the most part.
After high winds on Sunday, which ripped up exposed slopes, all faces look draped today
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And draped they were. 30-40cm on the wind hardened base. Hard to figure where it was just piled on rock.
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Careful with that crack, Eugene
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Just stay away from the cornices
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Good snow right to the bottom
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Some big slabs slid, along detonation ridge
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Below chimenea chica
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My pass lets me slip into the La Parva bowl and ride VN lifts, just to find this
cryptic warning
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But the pow was “regular”
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The moto boys will find a way
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Tres Puntas opened and I skied the lengthy trail over, arriving just in time for it to break down. So that was it for the day.
most excellent stoke!
X2!!
So 25cm fell last night, nice and light but drifted and bumpy on more exposed faces, with the clouds lifting at dawn. Practically the entire mountain was unpacked, with just 3 lifts running above the town. More on that later…
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Sheltered spots were great. I got to ski the Vegas lift line
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Ha ha, that is the run closed due to a “lack of snow”
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Sweeeet.
Gorgeous!
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In spite of the pathetically incompetent operations of La Parva, if the important thing was access to powder, that there was
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Falso parva
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Upper Manantiales
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Late day sweet spot
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Too much steep is scary, just south of that line it slid a few days ago
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Before the last snowfall
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La Chimenea and La Pared were skied
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Too bad about the rest
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Depending where you are, the “general appreciation” is
“Flujo zonal y aproximación de vaguada”
Or just
“Aproximación de vaguada”
Or
“Inestabilidad atmosférica”
But flurries it is north to south
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A vaguada is a trough
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After a day of wild wind and clouds,
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yesterday evening started with yet another gorgeous sunset with a sea of clouds and light precipitation below
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This gradually rose up the Andes, dropping ultralight fluff for a couple of hours, for a total of 5-10 cm overnight, refreshing things nicely
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Between turns with grandkids I got a look see at VN, here 3 Puntas slack country with new and old tracks
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3 Puntas
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Andes Express
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Las Tórtolas from VN
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So with the vaguada continuing for a couple more days we may see some minor light dumps. Long range central zone is dry.
The signage in VN just keeps getting better
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Never heard of a Pertiga in Chile
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Nice line off Cerro La Parva ridge
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Dos Tiempos and Valle Arenas are cooking.
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Poor Portillo
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“Preventive measure” due to unstable atmospheric conditions.
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