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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Powder Tornado

Powder Tornado.

Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina got 12-20″ of snow last night. We woke up to snow all over in town. It doesn’t snow in town very often. A couple times per year, tops. We knew it was going to be a great day on the hill. The upper mountain was covered in 12-20″ of absolute blower snow. The freezing level was somewhere around sea level last night creating uber dry faceshot producing snow all over the mountain. Nubes was closed all day due to wind which left the entirely of Nubes to the hiking crowd. On our first run, one of our crew triggered a small avalanche that took him for a ride. Be smart out there.

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Trip Report: 16 Days Chasing Patagonian Powder by Van, Part 2

My alarm sounds and I turn over quickly in my sleeping bag to silence its painful noise. I’ve already been awake, wiping the dripping moisture from our ceiling off my nose, forehand and face. It’s warm and raining outside. The inside of the van is like a small, white, igloo. Its cold and it takes everything I have to climb out of my ancient, green, hand-me-down, Argentinian sleeping bag, hop into the front seat of the van and turn on the engine. She rumbles briefly as I turn the key, […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: A Week of Storms

It’s been a wild week at Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina. It stormed every day this week with some storm days bringing so much wind that the ski resort was unable to open. All those stormed dropped plenty of snow up high. Around 6-feet of snow has fallen in the past week on the upper elevations of Catedral. Visibility has been tough this week, but if you were willing to work for it, there were some great turns to be had. They were even able to the Nubes chair open a time or two this week. The snow was mostly good up high with a few days of uber dense, wet […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Violently Bluebird

Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina experienced an impeccable day today. No wind, warm temps, good snow, great times. Southern aspects are still holding chalky, powdery snow. North faces have fun sun cooked pow. In bounds skied great today in the sun. Nubes was skiing well, Del Bosque even had some huckable cliffs in the soft afternoon snow. Our crew climbed up to the spires in La Laguna and dropped off the back – “Tower Chute” – for a long run into the Van Titter valley. The snow was powdery, chalky, and damn fast. The views from the mountain were […]
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Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Today was the Day

Miles jumping catedral today

Today, was a spectacular day at Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina. It was our second splendiferous day in a week since last Monday was brilliant. The day started with 4-10″ of new snow on top of a crunchy/hard layer and dense fog up top. We feared the day would be a wash with great snow and no visibility. After hiking Nubes three times and getting some terrible visibility and some OK visibility, the sun finally popped and the Nubes chair opened up. We ripped two high speed laps on the Nubes chair that were absolutely amazing. Full speed, slashing turns, laughing, hitting […]
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