[PHOTOS] Valle Nevado, Chile, Starting its Winter Off With The Most Snow in a Decade or More Chilean ski resort Valle Nevado is experiencing one of the best years for snow in a decade. The mountain has received a total of 3 feet of snow since Friday and is expecting another foot and a half starting Wednesday through Friday this week. But that’s not all: it looks like more snow is headed its way starting Sunday, too. […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | July 12, 2022 1 Comment
[VIDEOS] Ski Portillo in Chile Got 3.5 Feet of New Snow Last Weekend View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ski Portillo (@skiportillo) Try not to get jealous but Ski Portillo in the Andes Mountains of Chile got 15″ of snow last night, bringing the weekend’s snow total to 3.5 feet. The ski area is having one of the best starts to its season in literal decades. Not fair. […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | July 11, 2022 3 Comments
Valle Nevado, Chile, Looking Forward to Best Season in Decades as Major Snow Storms Roll In Valle Nevado Resort, Chile, launched the 2022 ski season this past weekend following two years of pandemic-related closure and is looking forward to one of the best seasons of the decade as major snow storms continue to roll through the Andes all through the week. Chile has relaxed its travel restrictions and no longer requires a Covid test to enter […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 7, 2022 1 Comment
Valle Nevado, Chile, Now Open for the 2022 Winter Season View this post on Instagram A post shared by Valle Nevado Ski Resort (@valle_nevado) Valle Nevado opened yesterday for the 2022 winter season with snow falling and lots of eager skiers and snowboarders ready to kick off the season right. Things to know about Valle Nevado right now: Chile does not require a PCR Covid test to get there. Valle […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 1, 2022 0 Comments
Chile’s Hundred-Year Storm, Which Dropped an Entire Season’s Snowfall in Only One Week in 1965 Every so often, Patagonia gets that storm. That storm which only rolls in once every century. That storm which drops hundreds of inches of snow in a matter of days, and halts the movement of entire regions of people. That storm which kills with murderous intent. In 1965, Chile got that storm. Chile averages about twenty feet of snowfall in a winter. […] Martin Kuprianowicz | June 16, 2022 0 Comments
Valle Nevado, Chile, Just Got Dumped On as Opening Day Approaches Valle Nevado, Chile, got its first substantial snow this weekend, 55cm (21 inches) total laying the foundation for a great 2022 season. While no official opening date has been announced, June 17th is tentatively on the calendar. Related: Skiing at Valle Nevado, Chile | The Best Idea for 2022 Last year the resort opened on June 30th, on June 18th […] SnowBrains | June 7, 2022 0 Comments
NASA: Melting Glacier in Chile Exposes 139-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur Fossils As glaciers have melted in our warming world, they have exposed pieces of the past, from Stone Age artifacts to wartime relics. But the retreating Tyndall Glacier in Chile has uncovered something much older: a prehistoric graveyard of ichthyosaurs. Related: Newly Discovered Fossilized Raptor May Have Been an Arctic Resident Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles, or “fish lizards,” that resembled modern-day […] Brains SnowBrains | June 3, 2022 0 Comments
[COMPETITION] Keep the Endless Winter Alive | Win the Trip of a Lifetime to Valle Nevado, Chile None of us want winter to be over, and with Ikon Pass, it doesn’t have to be. Ikon Pass destinations in the Southern Hemisphere are soon to be firing, and you can be there to experience it. If you want to keep the endless winter alive, head on over to ikonpass.com and enter the competition to win a trip for two […] SnowBrains | May 12, 2022 0 Comments