amazing, thanks again for sharing all the chile stoke.
guess i'll be one year older (sigh).
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amazing, thanks again for sharing all the chile stoke.
guess i'll be one year older (sigh).
This should be selling plane tickets this year not next. Sadly I’m in the latter group with fingers crossed for a repeat.
Another epic day
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Great coverage, for being over 3,200m, looking south from Manantiales córner
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Las Vegas from the main parking lot
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Habitual chain removal fiasco
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Epic
Even the Lagunillas ski area is snowed in
(Cajón del Maipo)
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More smoke from yesterday
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Too bad it is all over for now. It is winter holidays for the kids, tho, the sunshine will be welcome, and maybe the ski areas will get beyond having just a third of their the runs packed.
Yesterday, Valle Nevado had the entire upper mountain closed, and Andes Express did not appear to be running either. Major road trouble, same as above Farellones.
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The current precipitation stats
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Outstanding month, and year to date, but not a record for June
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Quieting down for the central zone, continuing snow for the south
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Roca Jack and echelons looking prime
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Meanwhile, in Copahue hot springs, Argentina
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Slava sandwich
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Casey bringing the noise. Damn.
Over the border from Las Leñas
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Kiddie holidays are peaking and the first jr racers have appeared. Pistes are fine packed powder. We took a swing by VN to see how the other half lives.
Not too bad it seems, one of several Bajo Cero terraces:
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US$8 a beer.
It takes all kinds
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Splendid day
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Del Inca, Tres Puntas, and Ancla not running.
Rumor has it the “Gringo” wants to a lift down this valley
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Nice exposure, steep, and the snow blows in there.
Coño! Cono Este looks good
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Gully run is set up
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At last Portillo gets to open
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Don’t know if this applies to anyone out there
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More interesting, for the oldest farts,
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Hope this gringo skiburban art spotted today in LP isn’t a harbinger of more to come
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Although warm with flat light, the skiing is good
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Amazing wind feature behind that fella. Gorgeous
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Maule still out of reach
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Go south for new snow
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Phew, kiddie holidays are over, for the most part. Some private schools have a different schedule, and now the universities are entering winter break, but aside from the July 13-16 and August 15-18 long weekends, there should now be "normal" crowds. I hope the ski areas finally made some money for the holidays.
Grooming has been in full swing, carving out the runs everywhere. Fabres in La Parva, and Del Inca and Ancla in VN, finally opened. Roca Jack in Portillo, and Don Otto in Chillan are also open. The runs are packed powder when groomed and hard pack with some piles of soft snow when not. Pockets of powder can be found on steeper sheltered south facing slopes.
In keeping with the stoke, Fabres
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Capacho run with grandson and the Mrs
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Las Flores
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Trying to photograph my grand son and daughter was not easy as they were either on my heels or passing me
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Style be damned
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The forecast looks a lot like la Niña is kicking in
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Just in from a brief fluke access to customs in Maule
"I did some probing indeed, it was always deeper than the probe length, 240 cm. Carabineros then told me that they don’t plan opening the road to customs until they clear all the road and open the pass. And the plans are to do so “in a month and a half”"
Customs
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So access is limited to 5 km below there, where a workers camp and Valle Aguirre access is.
Yucky air time of the year
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Another heli op in the RM
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Powder at least a week after the last dump
Take a dive on the wild side
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Some V Sollipulli fun coming up in August
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So to corroborate their July/August/Sept forecast, meteochile first shows two alternative forecasts (USA, Korea), which show lower than normal precipitation, and some "indefinition" further south
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And then lays it out by latitude, with "normal" precipitation ranges for reference
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So it will precipitate, just less than normal, say 100-150mm in Santiago -Qta. Normal, which translates, all else equal, to around 100-150cm of new snow left in the season for the 4 Valleys/Portillo.
For Temuco, the same number would be 250-350mm, or 250-350cm more snow coming. It is very cold at the moment in the southern cone with lots of social media posts of snowy roads, stranded animals, forests drooping under the weight of wet snow, etc.
So the season should still be good, albeit with less frequent and intense storms. For the rest of July, in spite of a dry 10-day forecast at the moment, it should be closer to "normal", or greater:
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In NOAA words,
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and "In summary, ENSO-neutral is expected to continue for the next several months, with La Niña favored to emerge during August-October (70% chance) and persist into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2024-25 (79% chance during November-January)."
Some recent gleanings
Cold enough to freeze the ocean in Tierra del Fuego
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Central valley freezing fog south of Stgo
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South to north, select ski areas
El Fraile, Coyhaique
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Osorno, for sitters
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Antillanca trenching
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Villarrica (¨Pillan") scenic chair
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Llaima (Las Araucarias)
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Antuco
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Which has 500m vertical and some neat volcanic features
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Chapa Verde
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Quite the crown in that Antuco photo. One of my favorite volcano corn skis I've had in Chile.
Boom goes V Villarrrica last night
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The 500m no-go zone was a little short.
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From a neighbor a couple days ago
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Spot the Pillan ski area in there
Today
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Valle del Cepo, Valle Nevado, more rad than Sta Teresa
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Blowing the super c
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Getting it on Santa Teresa
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Is it worth coming in October? I've always wanted to come in august/september obviously. But working seasonally I just dont know if its ever gonna happen. This year I think I can be done by late september. I imagine volcano corn season would still be good then? Dont expect to get much lift served still at that point but catching a little bit of it if possible would be fun too.
I went expecting to ski corn in October 2019 (mostly Region de Bio Bio, Auracania) and there was a 1 m powder dump. So we skied pow off the top of Lonquimay and Llaima, then corn in Antuco and frozen corn in Chillan. I think we got pretty lucky. But there's definitely skiing to be had reliably in October, especially further South. The lifts were still turning at Lonquimay, which was great.Quote:
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If you are expecting spring conditions, you will have a blast. The main gamble is rain, but you have 1,000km of latitude to choose from, and it is supposed to be dry. The ski areas that could be open in October are the 3 Valleys, Corralco, Pillan, Antillanca, and Osorno. Often weekends only. Chillan doesn’t seem interested in October and may run the lifts/cats just for racers (like the Canucks). BC could also be Maule if they permit.Quote:
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Groomers are as good as ever, and LP added a couple of their few black runs on Las Vegas and Alpha
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Fabres was fab
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Santa Teresa from VN
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The cold spell has helped a lot for the piste renewal, but the heat is now on the way.
So the clouds will finally get their chance tomorrow, but no precipitating, then it’s back to sunshine. Some piste pics from recent days
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Tres Puntas and environs
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Cerro La Parva southeast bowl
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Northeast towards Bismarck peak
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El Plomo to the north
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El Pintor bowl
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West to La Parva
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The hotel and ski area base
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The south ski out from Tres Puntas to the Embalse lift
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And a Sunday afternoon paseo to the La Parva southwest bowl
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The main chute in the middle
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And some Franciscano tracks on 3 week old snow and yet another heli prowling.
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Old powder hunting is a shady business.
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A quick trip north and then east from La Parva, past the Las Bronces and Andina mines, to Portillo
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Los Arenales, Araucanía. It took a long time to get here, from summer pastures to ski area, abandoned, and now a backcountry alternative to Corralco, with "identidad cultural"
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You do have to pay to get in now though. Several minor peaks stretch north at 1,900- 2,000m, with lovely forests up to about 1,700m.
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