Piling up in Chillan
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Piling up in Chillan
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Great view of Valle Arenas and El Morado, from Aug 10
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Between one flurry and another, there was 15-25 cm when it cleared late last night. -10C and all the usual north facing exposures were bare from the wind.
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Lower down, it was plastered
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The yanks were trying to do a GS of sorts on Las Vegas, looked cool
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Piste or off piste?
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Fabres playground
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Fabres free ride zone
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Then the clouds started to quickly take over
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A fine note to end the day
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There was a fair amount of scraping noises going on, as it wasn’t enough to bury previous imperfections.
nice!
The last piece of yuck before the weather breaks for a week or so
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Sweet
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Sent by my kid yesterday, bluebird.
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epic^
is that super C or some other gnarly side country chute?
That’s the booter to Super C above Roca Jack
Pretty calm around the country
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So that tremendous surplus of precipitation is shrinking. August YTD vs June YTD for the usual selection of cities near skiing:
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That early August storm left the July/August precipitation total near "normal", 101mm vs 108mm for the Tobalaba station in western Santiago. The 3 days of fresh powder in August is normal. By this rule, 30mm should fall in September, enough for one good powder day. When that will happen is anybody's guess. Last year was 70mm for Sept., but just to keep expectations down to earth, with la Niña al acecho, lets say 30 are coming.
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For those who skied the recent multi-day flurry session, even a bit can set things up nice for a few days, given the base is deep and solid, and will last thru September.
Southern Chile has been drier as well in this period, and has little new precipitation in the 6 day forecast. The coming prolonged paucity of powder could still be turned around. Fingers crossed.
Chapelco, the backside
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Damn, Mofro Jr. carving that just like I would. That felt great. Fucking 4" of talcum powder for a lotta vert there. He only stopped to check his watch...more turns or less?
Haven't seen him since Beartooth with SirVic. mediocres.
I would of traversed more.
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Some incredible skiing the last few days in Chile. The Bulge in the La Raja zone delivered!
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Wow! Is that heli or hike to terrain? Great line 6’er!
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Satanic sickness!
Heli access. Banger of a first trip and still here.
Heading to a National Park? There are many wonderful ones in Chile (with snow too), but currently the folks in charge are on strike and not validating entry tickets.
"Hasta que estas demandas no sean cumplidas, los guardaparques de Chile no realizarán la validación de tickets vendidos por la plataforma pases parque en ninguna de las áreas silvestres protegidas del país", advirtió el Sindicato Nacional de Guardaparques y Trabajadores de las Áreas Silvestres Protegidas (SNGP)."
Fuente: Emol.com - https://www.emol.com/noticias/Econom...s-fedetur.html
Check on the status first.
Climate change trends in Chile
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Sick dude. FKNAQuote:
Originally Posted by skier666
Spring has sprung, and freeze thaw set in, except for yesterday when a thick cold fog hardened things all day for the racers. One had to get into a ping-pong ball at the bottom on the off chance of it clearing higher up the mountain. And it did
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Sr Wild arriving at Fabres
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Upper El Colorado and the Góndola terminus of VN, where Andes Express launches.
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The hotel was in the cloud.
And then it engulfed the upper mountain.
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Some rebellious clouds below
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Today back to freeze thaw
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Even the abominable one was out early
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As were the Rando Fest crew, Andes Touring et al
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One of many such festivities in process around the country
Hey Casey, say hi to Silas for me!
He got lost in the fog, and reappeared in San Martin de los Andes…Quote:
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More jet stream winds yesterday, closing all upper lifts and wreaking havoc with snow quality.
The Andorran team getting the last rays of sun at 10:00am
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The piste was hard and this was my last run up Franciscano
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Flat spots and ridges were getting dirty as the wind blew warm mid station down
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I packed it in in time for the fog to rise up
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On a positive take, the dirt helps orientation.
Of course the sun came out for its goodbyes
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Complementing prior days shows
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^ wow sky. Sweet
Ha. Skied with Silas a bit last week. Solid human being.
The downhillers had their day
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Pretty much just racers and ski camps these days
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About a 500m vert schuss ends here
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FYI the bar on the left was closed. Weekends it will open, as well as the Pirca at the top of the downhill (Las Águilas). 3,500m pisco sours, anyone? The action across the run there
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More groups
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Truth! First time I skied on Rainier I met him. Then he gives me a Rainier beer. It was love at first sight.Quote:
Originally Posted by skier666
Got a call a few days ago, for a couple seats to heliski Laguna del Teno, near Curico.
Variable snow conditions, from windpack to crusty to butter to powder. Awesome terrain.
Andean foothills on the flight in from near Lontue
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Hard to choose
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Laguna del Teno and Volcán Planchón (an active chain)
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First run on the right there, down the canaleta
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Got 5 runs in
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Our guide, the indefatigable Rafael Tapia
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My youngest, enjoying the scenery
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A few more views
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The crew
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Nice day for it!
fact.
Well the sputter has kicked in
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I may be wrong, but this is about as close the 3 Valleys are going to get to a freshen up, at least until the military get their day, Sept 19, "Día de las Glorias del Ejército"
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With not much snow falling at the bottom in over a month, things have taken on a brownish hue
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Which hasn´t impeded my grandkids from honking the snowpark
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That said, we can still ski to within 40 muddy meters of our apartment
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And the upper groomers are hard but remarkably resilient if well maintained. The bottom is skiable once it warms up, around 11-12am.
The attention is now moving south to the volcanos, and some recent webcams reveal newly snowed areas as we go south:
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Cloudy further south than that
Mooke films with a clip from their coming movie, Volcan Osorno
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and Heli-Touring Camp día 2
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You know when the webcams go offline, that what you would see is not appealing, as in the case of La Parva and El Colorado, which are both switched off now. All their cams are around 2,700m, while VN is 3,000m, and is online. Portillo is always on. Chillan and Corralco are mostly online, Antillanca is variable.
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Not looking good for precipitation this month. This chart shows the anomalies of precipitation this winter
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And the influence of the intensity of the South Pacific High (no not that one) on precipitation over the last few years
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Note that 2023 and 2024 were the first years to have above normal rainfall, since 2009 (with an odd exception in 2016 when the tail end of El Niño brought rain in the summer).
So this is the meagre Sept forecast:
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A Laguna del Teno and Volcan Planchon-Peteroa angle, similar to the webcam
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Detail of the zone between the two major cones
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To the east some nice lines on Cerro San Pedro, near the border, 40km beeline from Las Leñas
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Need a lot of snow, low, but wild terrain
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NOAA sez “The continuation of negative subsurface temperatures and enhanced low-level easterly wind anomalies supports the formation of a weak La Niña. A weaker La Niña implies that it would be less likely to result in conventional winter impacts, though predictable signals could still influence the forecast guidance (e.g., CPC's seasonal outlooks). In summary, La Niña is favored to emerge in September-November (71% chance) and is expected to persist through January-March 2025 [Fig. 7].”
Weak now is it? So it goes in this difficult-to-predict field of thought.
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