Bariloche Conditions Report

VIDEO: Bariloche, Argentina August Highlight Reel by SGT

This video was made by our friends at Sass Global Travel (SGT). We has nothing but powder here in Bariloche, Argentina during the first two weeks of August. SGT captured it well. The Southern Hemisphere provided the necessary winter weather for the first two sold-out sessions of the season. With less than desirable winter conditions elsewhere throughout the Andes, SASS figured out how to utilize the amazing alpine terrain at Cerro Catedral in Bariloche, Argentina. The skier crew started their summer shred with SASS’s standard avalanche awareness program and […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Big Mountain Park Skiing

Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina has a chairlift called Nubes. It’s a high speed quad that rises 2,000-feet to the top of the mountain. It accesses steep, jagged terrain, cliff hucks, cruisy groomers, wide open bowls, natural halfpipes, and the terrain park. Nubes would be a solid chair anywhere. Nubes is the key to days like today. Like Tahoe, Bariloche experiences mid-winter springtimes. If you embrace them, they’re […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Backcountry Report: Wind-Swept Beauty

Bariloche had a big, sunny wind storm yesterday. It close the ski resort down for most the day. It buffed things out a bit and definitely pressed the snow down. I didn’t see any snow today that wasn’t wind affected in some way. I headed back out to Alaskita today. On the ski out there, I ran into the SGT crew. SGT is a ski/snowboard camp here in Bariloche that guides skiers and riders both inbounds and out. Today, they did a sweet tour. Alasita Run = Short Spines, Big Convex Face, to Fingers & Chutes. I made it to the top of Alaskita in about an hour after an uneventful ski and skin. The views today were precisoa. Temperatures were on the warm […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Cliff-Hucking Good

Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina was closed yesterday due to high winds and a wet storm. Snow levels were high. It likely rained to the top yesterday. As the storm was ending, it got cold and dropped some good snow. This morning was bluebird. I ran straight up Nubes and found ok snow. It was very wind pressed and punchy and I nailed a rock on my first lap. As I was coming down Nubes they opened the chair. I stayed and got in 3 more runs before deciding to check out La Laguna. When I got to Laguna I realized that […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Backcountry Report: The Big Lines of “Alaskita”

Little Alaska is my favorite line in Bariloche. It’s not too bad of a hike, the views are stunning, and the terrain is intense. Avalanche terrain management is priority number one here. The upper spines are subject to wind loading. The middle convex rollovers are textbook avalanche start zones and the lower chutes would flush you extremely hard if anything came down. This zone is only to be played with when stability confidence is high. The wind really hammered the Catedral massif two nights ago – pressing the snow down, scouring some zones, and filling in others. Little Alaska is very prone to wind and wind loading. The last time I […]
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Skier Triggered Avalanche at Catedral Ski Resort in Bariloche, Argentina Today:

A 20 minute hike from the Del Bosque chair at Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina brings you to La Laguna. La Laguna is the backcountry. No avalanche control, no patrollers, no medical equipment, no nothing. Today, there was a skier triggered avalanche at the top of La Laguna. A skier skied into this line and triggered the avalanche. He fortunately didn’t get caught in the slide. He was lucky. About 90% of the humans who hike into La Laguna have no backpacks, no […]
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2 Foot Powder Day in Bariloche, Argentina: As Good As It Gets

Today was a great day at Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina. The snow was about as good as it gets here. It snowed hard and blew hard yesterday leaving us with up to two feet of semi dense, wind-pressed snow. The kind of snow you can open it up in, but can still speed check in anytime. It was also good for hucking provided you had a steep landing. It didn’t give much on flat landings… I started the day with two laps on the mellow terrain Punta Nevada […]
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6+ Feet of New Snow in a Week in Bariloche, Argentina | Report:

Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina has been closed for the past 5 days. Ripping wind, dumping snow, and pouring rain made lift operations unrealistic. It’s been a wild ride. Last weekend, Catedral got 40cms of snow right down to the base. Then it got warm, but the upper mountain still got 40cms (17 inches) on July 28th, 50cms (20 inches) on July 29th, 65cms (25 inches) on July 30th, 30cms (20 inches) on August 1st, and 20cms (8 inches) on August 2nd. That adds up to 205 cms […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: La Laguna is Ready

With the upper mountain open there is plenty of riding to be found and you can access runs from the Top at Nubes chair down to Princesa 1 chair. The pistes have good snow coverage however in places there are icy patches so be aware although this softens up throughout the day! For the more adventurous of you La Laguna is a short hike and some great snow can be found at the top with riding down to the bottom of Del Bosque chair which was open today for the first time in two weeks. But the really great news is Bariloche is braced to receive a big dump of snow this […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: 3-Foot Base Up Top

Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina is starting to build up enough snowpack to make things interesting. Actually, from these photos, the upper mountain is looking damn good. One of our reporters there, local ripper Julian, just sent us these photos and this report. He’s reporting that there is over a 3 foot base at the top and that you can ski to the bottom. Many years, you can never ski all the way to the bottom. Sounds like […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Powder Day & Photo Tour

Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina has had a bumpy start. They opened, then had to close again after a big rain storm. Today, it’s lookin’ like things are shaping up again. New snow has fallen and the upper mountain and things are lookin’ ok up there. Still looks like there is a ways to go before people are truly freeriding, but at least you can hit the groomers and there is a bit of pow. We’ll have a reporter stationed in Bariloche beginning in […]
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