Conditions Report
For the last three weeks, all we’ve done is talking about dryness, global warming, lack of snow. We’ve spend entire nights without sleeping, just staring at the computer, waiting forecasts to show some snow. We’ve screamed, we cried, we cursed every ski resort; we prayed every existent God. But nothing happened. Snow wouldn’t show up.
Most people will never understand it. They will never have the chance of feeling it. They will never go to bed with the anxiety of waking up and just stroke the fresh white cream right through the window, hoping to take the first lift of the morning, before anyone can even try to make a turn on that floaty powder.
Weather is unpredictable. Conditions are extremely variable. We have to adapt to the mountains, we have to adapt to nature. And this is, maybe, what makes skiing so special. It produces something on us that nothing else on Earth is capable of. Something extremely difficult to explain, unless you are luckily enough to feel it.
Yesterday, these resorts had absolutely no snow. But one day, it snowed in Argentina, and today they woked up almost buried, and more snow is on its way. This is skiing.
Chapelco, Argentina
Before the Snow
After the Snow
Cerro Catedral, Argentina
Before the Snow
After the Snow
Las Leñas, Argentina
Before the Snow
After the Snow
It is important to say that, even though it snowed a lot, Catedral and Chapelco are not fully opened yet. More snow is expected and that are great news. On the other hand, when the storm ends in Las Leñas, it seems the whole mountain will be operating.
Chapelco and Catedral are low altlitude resorts. The long term future for both is not positive.
I never mentioned future is positive. In fact, at the end of the article I said that eventhough they had recieved a good amount of snow, they were not opened yet. Besides, more snow is expected for both Chapelco and Catedral, which is of course good news.