Refugio Frey, Patagonia Backcountry Hut Report: Wind, Powder, & Pizza We set off from the base of Catedral on a adventure of epic proportions. It was Ashley, our guide Lucas Jacobson who is a Bariloche local, and Alex Lemieux a guide from Utah who also joined for the quick trip to the hut. First challenge on Tuesday was the high winds and closed lifts on the mountain. We could have taken the summer trail but it would m have been half the fun. We set off and skinned from the base to the top ridge near the Nubes Chair. Once at the ridge we were faced with 60+ mile per hour winds and an icy traverse across a sketch patch. Falling was not an option. […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 17, 2014 2 Comments
Kenya, Africa Surf & Culture Report: The Wild Beaches of Eastern Kenya Kenya is best known for the wild animals that roam Maasai Mara, but it is also home to 360 miles of white sand beaches, coconut palms, and jagged cliffs that hug the Indian Ocean. On my most recent trip to the country, I took a few days off from […] Surf Guest Author | August 13, 2014 3 Comments
Treble Cone, NZ Conditions Report: 17-Inch Powder Day With 40 cm of new snow in 24 hours and over 1.5 meters over the past week we headed to Treble Cone to find some pow. You could see the snow line was much lower today and it was quite cold. The first obstacle of the day was the chain requirement from the bottom of the dirt road for all 2wd vehicles including our JUCY Box. The views from the access road were even more spectacular today: a deep blue sky, bright sun and a bit of fog mixed in. Treble Cone has only 2 chair lifts and one feeds the other. Obstacle number 2: a long line. Don’t people work anymore? It took about 25 minutes to get on the 6-pack chair. The goal was to get over to […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 12, 2014 0 Comments
Refugio Frey, Patagonia Backcountry Hut Report: Chutes & Ladders This backcountry report is thanks to AndesCross Mountain Guides, a company that guides the best backcountry skiing in Patagonia, Argentina, Chile, and internationally. AndesCross Mountain Guides has fully UIAGM-IFMGA certified guides have the Bariloche, Argentina region dialed. The past few days brought snow to the Andes. The storm […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 10, 2014 0 Comments
Baguales Cat Skiing Report: Patagonia, Argentina Our group visited a new cat skiing operation located close to Bariloche, Argentina called Baguales. Our group included Bob Yoder (Truckee, Ca.), Terry Ledger (Boston Mass.), Chick Knight (Boston Mass.), Cody Knight (Steamboat Col.), Brett Heineman (Carmel New York) and Steve Kruse (Anchorage Alaska). This was Steve Kruse’s 335 consecutive month of skiing at least one day. That is almost 30 years! The group has visited South America […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 8, 2014 0 Comments
Nevados de Chillan Conditions Report: Deep Snow, Big Wind After a few days of poor conditions around the 3 Valley resorts we decided to pull the plug and grab a last minute flight down to Nevados de Chillan to try to hook up with the Ingrid Backstrom Women’s Camp and hit the forecasted storm. We could not have timed it better. The night drive up was an adventure with about a foot of snow on the […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 8, 2014 1 Comment
Portillo, Chile Conditions Report & Photo Tour: I skied Portillo from July 26 to August 1. Sorry for the late posting, but the moral of the story remains the same: book your flight to Santiago. Although this isn’t the best season for snow at Portillo, with parts of Chile in a drought, the conditions were awesome. The hotel is world class, as are the staff and ski instructors, who I believe are some of the best ski instructors from all over the world, gathered in one place. Maybe it’s all the orange signs in front of Andarivel Roca […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 6, 2014 0 Comments
VIDEO: Bat Caca Crazy Ripping in Las Lenas This Week… This video is our boy Adira Millan getting bat caca crazy at Las Lenas, Argentina on August 4th, 2014. Think this guy knows these lines well… Whoa! These words are by our boy Eike Poppelmeier. Marte Powder Day Monday 4th of august After a few rain/snow storms in the past week the upper part of the mountain has finaly filled in nicely. With no wind in the forecast – a blue bird […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 6, 2014 2 Comments
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