“Quick ‘n’ Dirty” Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report + Photo Tour: The Storm Rages On…

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Great snow on Nubes today.  photo: miles clark/snowbrains
Great snow on Nubes today. photo: miles clark/snowbrains

Today was another fun day at Cerro Catedral in Bariloche, Argentina.   36 more inches of snow are forecast on the upper mountain between now and Thursday (forecast below).

The big, windy storm that has been hitting since Saturday continued to dominate the mountain.  Another few inches of snow fell overnight last night and the wind buffed it out into the smoothest, most consistent snow.

La Hoya chair in a snowstorm today.  photo: miles clark/snowbrains
La Hoya chair in a snowstorm today. photo: miles clark/snowbrains

This kind of snow if my favorite.  It’s wind pressed so it skis really fast and you stay on top, but there’s still some depth to it if you need to dig in or land an air.  Simply perfect snow.  Shane McConkey himself once explained to me how much he loved this kind of wind pressed snow.  I agree.

I got up the chairs early this morning and there was no one on the upper mountain.  There was wind pressed powder everywhere and the skiing was great.  I burned a few laps on the chairs before hiking up Nubes.

A fun line on Nubes today.  photo: miles clark/snowbrains
A fun line on Nubes today. photo: miles clark/snowbrains

The Nubes zone is now backcountry terrain with all the dangers that come with it.  Heads up.  I dug around, poked around, skied a small, lower section gingerly.  Then came back to the same zone, dug around, skied it a bit harder.  After a few laps, my confidence grew in the stability and a I skied a couple more laps in some incredible wind pressed snow.

Bottom of Punta Nevada chair today.  photo: miles clark/snowbrains
Dumping snow at the bottom of Punta Nevada chair today. photo: miles clark/snowbrains

Catedral reported 15cms (6″) of new snow overnight on the upper mountain and a 30″ base on the upper mountain.

One turn on Nubes today.  photo: miles clark/snowbrains
One turn on Nubes today. photo: miles clark/snowbrains

This big, windy storm is forecast to rage on until Thursday and we’re stoked.  36 more inches of snow are forecast on the upper mountain between now and Thursday.

Funny!  photo: miles clark/snowbrains
Funny! photo: miles clark/snowbrains

It’s snowing at the base of Cerro Catedral as of 8:00pm local time.

Cerro Catedral base at 8pm local time today.  photo:  Karen Powpow
Cerro Catedral base at 8pm local time today. photo: Karen Powpow

CATEDRAL FORECAST:

image:  snow-forecast.com, today
image: snow-forecast.com, today

 

 


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One thought on ““Quick ‘n’ Dirty” Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report + Photo Tour: The Storm Rages On…

  1. Wind-pressed snow: we Mammoth skiers know about that! Sometimes there’s a brittle slab which makes skiing tricky. But when the top layer is loose with a supportable subsurface, that’s definitely hero snow.

    Aug. 15 is quite late for the first decent storm of the season. Nonetheless most visitors who heed the advice here to go to South America in August/early September should do OK this year.

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