Pisco Powered Chile Dogs

[chunder]

Well...
I had the pleasure of devirginizing my silly ass of South America this year, and it was freaking cool. After landing in Santiago and making the road up to Valle Nevado, this was the view out my hotel window


Some terrain, eh?


A nice sunrise over the Andes


Looking down towards Santiago and the whinging road


The first two days were kinda meh, but we got a little overnight and day 3 (monday) was bluebird pow. In the spirit of Bob Weir, "Haaaaaa!"


Go chair go -- I'm dying!


I really like this photo; makes me want to schralp


There was some of this


And some of this


And it continued


But hey, the Chile Dogs need some lovin'. This is Tima and her faithful patrollemn






I saw some dudes checking out the snowpack for shears


But I think they were looking the wrong way


It was pretty calm for most of the morning but it started whipping it up later int he afternoon


Some Valle Nevado parting shots




Cheers to the mags and all like minded folk


And then we headed down south through the cold rain and wind to chillan. Someone saw an alien with antennae that was inhaling bacon flavored fart wax, but all I could make out was this


The next morning near Termas De Chillan, this was the wakeup call

My bad, I got my zeros mixed up, it was supposed to be this


We had a fruckin increibel pow day this day, and unfortunately I don't have the photos to do it justice, so I'm just going to let the chile dogs and the pics do the talking from here on out.








And this guy was the bomb sniffing dog at the Santiago airport. I really wanted to smuggle him in my carry on, but he busted me for my toothpaste and sunscreen.

[sculhane]

Cool pics...

How is the coverage in Chillian? Their website shows the top of the mountain closed for the last month it seems... Would be nice to have some beta from someone who was actually there.

Thanks,

Steve

[Cono Este]

NIce pics of El PLomo. Those views are sweet.

[Phil]

Yeah dude !

Thank you for the pics. I'm in Antillanca heading to cerro Bayo. Twas a sick storm we hit in Chillan.

Mark my 5-years-of-chillan-ripping-time-words: it was epic snow.

I'm glad we shared the powand huck fest !

Hasta la nieve weon !

[zIPPY]

Puta Weon!

[chunder]

Cool pics...

How is the coverage in Chillian? Their website shows the top of the mountain closed for the last month it seems... Would be nice to have some beta from someone who was actually there.

Unfortunately it was too stormy for us to get up higher than the first couple of lifts--bummer as I really wanted to hike up and ski from the summit. I can only guess from the coverage at the bottom that the top would be totally sick. Next time...

[mtnbikerskierchick]

Bump for good stoke that got missed!

Thanks for sharing the pics Chunder!

[ubertele]

Pics looks sick. I need to figure out how to get down there next summer!

[Squirrel99]

What? No pics of that painfully long, directional changing poma at Valle?

I don't think any ski area has quite as scary,,,er...dangerous access road. I made sure to down a couple piscos before heading back in the van.

That powder sure looks nice...