FIS Masters Cup Racers Competed Against Backdrop of Exploding Volcano in Chile Last Week The FIS Masters Cup 2019/20 took place at the beautiful resort of Nevados de Chillan, Chile last week against an unusual dramatic backdrop – an exploding volcano. Nevados de Chillan is part of the Chillan Volcano Complex, which has been active for the last 650,000 years. One volcano in the complex, the so-called New Volcano is still active and located […] Industry News SnowBrains | September 19, 2019 0 Comments
Ski Icon Portillo, Chile To CLOSE September 21 A difficult 2019/20 winter, characterized by snowfall levels well below average, draws to a close at premier Chilean ski destination, Portillo. Ski Portillo in the central Andes, is one among several major Chile and Argentina ski areas to be hit hard by what scientist confirm to be a 10-yr drought. Thin cover closed these Andean ski resorts early: Los Puqios, […] Industry News SnowBrains | September 16, 2019 0 Comments
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Lack of Snow Closes Another Chile Ski Resort | La Parva Closed on Sunday Ski resort La Parva in Chile has become the latest casualty of the exceptional dry spell affecting the central Andes. The resort closed for the season early, on Sunday 1st September, citing lack of snow as the reason. La Parva joins Chilean resorts Ski Arpa who failed to open at all and El Colorado who announced they too will be […] Weather WeatherBrains | September 3, 2019 0 Comments
El Colorado Resort, Chile to CLOSE This Week Due to Lack of Snow For the second consecutive season, Chilean resort El Colorado has announced that they will be closing early due to weather conditions. The lifts will stop turning on September 8th. Historically, Chilean resorts predict opening right through to October, but it is increasingly becoming the norm that they don’t even make it through mid-September. Closing days at El Colorado the previous 5-years […] Weather WeatherBrains | September 2, 2019 0 Comments
Shane McConkey: Free to Ski “Whether it was steep, extreme descent or new freestyle, what we were doing was freeskiing, free to ski our own style on our own terms” – Shane McConkey There are so many words said about Shane. There is practically no ski or outdoor magazine, which hasn’t written about Shane, but when it comes to the legend it seems like it’s never […] Featured Article Claire Weiss | August 28, 2019 0 Comments
The HAVES & HAVE NOTS of Snow in South America Right Now: It’s no secret that the Central Andes of South America have been extremely dry this year. Some media outlets are reporting that this is the driest year in the Central Andes in 60 years and that it’s only snowed 3 times this year… Ouch. The Central Andes have been in drought for the past 10 years. Central Andes ski resorts […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 22, 2019 0 Comments
National Ski Team Cancels Chile Training Camp Due to Lack of Snow A lack of snow in some parts of Chile has led to the Swiss Women’s National Ski Team cancelling their planned training camp in South America and instead remain in Switzerland and train on the glaciers of Zermatt and Saas Fee. Related: Los Puquios Ski Resort, Argentina Brings an End to Winter 2019 Due to Lack of Snow Unseasonably warm […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 13, 2019 0 Comments
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