Cerro Catedral in Bariloche, Argentina just went through yet another fantastic storm cycle the past 3 days.  The mountain is reporting 80cms of new snow (30″) in the past 3 days.

• On Thursday, we skied deep, heavy, powdery snow, in a snowstorm with low visibility.

• On Friday, we skied deep, lightly wind-pressed, crazy fun snow in a major windstorm with very low visibility.  Gomez even got blown over once while hiking up and I got stuck for about 20-seconds with the wind hitting me so hard in the chest that I couldn’t take a step forward…   I was laughing my head off.  I’ve never had that happen.  Hilarious!

• On Saturday we skied complicated wind-effected, classic South American “carton” (cardboard, about a 2 inch semi breakable crust) on Nubes, and dense wind-pressed real good snow in Laguna.  Laguna always has less wind-effected snow.  Good visibility this day with full-on sunshine and big heat starting at 2pm.

video of one run in La Laguna on Saturday at 3pm

All 3 days were bell to bell.  All 3 days were excellent.  All 3 days the mountain was relatively empty.

Welcome to September, my favorite month to ski South America.

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