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A frosting was in order, with 5-10 cm
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A hare showed the way
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Thursday Salvation day? Or just another bluff?
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Getting.us through another summer w stoke!! Good stuff!!
Today had everything from overcast to bright sunshine to dense fog
Racing on La Nevada
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Valle Nevado pumping the snow guns
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It is now tour groups and racers time of year, here testing mettle on the Muela
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Turns on the front side of La Muela
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A wild man on Shake
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And the clouds converged on the slopes
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Forcing us down to the brown
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The connecting runs are hurting, here LP/VN connector
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I saw someone hyping on incoming storm this week. Hope it delivers for you
Here are the estimates from Meteo Chile
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Low temps and precipitation also headed to the south, where it is even more needed
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For those wondering about lift ticket prices
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A lot going on meteorologically speaking, storms in Argentina, showers and snowfall in the Atacama desert, and a cold front sweeping up from the South Pacific could bring snow to the Central Valley, including Santiago. Wind, of course, too.
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Alternatively
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Freezing levels are finally falling!
While we await the arrival of this front, some shots from Maule early August.
On the ruta 5, I took some shots of the front range, south to north, on the way to Rio Teno
Starting with V Longaví, north of Chillán
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And so on until the Rio Maule watershed
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To Curicó and the Rio Teno watershed
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Romeral, the entrance town
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And Los Queñes, the last hurrah for civilization, here the school with its Araucaria angustifolia trees
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We’ll, unless you count La Picá del Puma, by the miners monument
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That truck was one of many barreling up and down the road, which is well maintained until the mine, and Tierras Bayas, my destino. Forget getting to the pass, it is under repair.
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Where I blew a tire
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And was rescued by my host and ushered up the last few Km to the Refugio
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The next day dawned with a light drizzle, which continued off and on for the morning, soaking the snow. Rather than trying to ski in a swamp, I took a walk when it cleared up.
Austrocedrus chilensis, a mountain Cyprus bonsai
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The view back down the valley
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The view east, where I was to tour
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Front range
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I figured it would freeze overnight and was right, here heading out from the Refugio, while a heli group pulls in from Santiago
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More to come
The first 200 vertical meters was one layer of about 40cm compacted from the snowfall 5 days earlier. Snow looked funky near rocks up to 2,200m aprox
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But still it was beautiful. The lone pine marks the decision point
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Rather than go onto a more north facing slope, where the snow was evidently rained on
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I continued up the first bowl
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Up to the red spot
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Where I indulged in a classic ave palta
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The way down to the lodge
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Had to have one
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The home run
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