Las Lenas, ARG and Portillo, Chile Have Best Seasons in Years | Both CLOSED for Season The legendary ski resorts of Las Lenas, Argentina and Portillo, Chile are now closed for the season. They both had the best seasons they’ve had in many years as predicted by the El Nino forecasts for South America. Here is the best video of the year from Las Lenas, Argentina from the best day of the year in Las Lenas: […] Industry News SnowBrains | October 6, 2015 0 Comments
VIDEO: Krazy Karl Rides Ski Lift Cable in Chile Krazy Karl does it again. This video is nuts and from Chile this summer. Karl is an animal. Listen to the sound his skis make as they slide across the cable… Nuts, huh? SnowBrains | October 5, 2015 0 Comments
VIDEO & Photos: Big Powder Day in South America Today South America and especially central Chile just got hit with another big storm. Valle Nevado is reporting over a foot of new snow today and the photos look epic. Portillo got a healthy amount of snow as did La Parva, Chile. Even Argentina got in on the goods with Las Lenas getting new snow and Catedral in Bariloche, Argentina gettting 4″ overnight. Winter is not over in South America. South America and especially central Chile just got hit with another big storm. Valle Nevado is reporting over a foot of new snow today and Conditions Report SnowBrains | September 25, 2015 0 Comments
NASA: Chile & Argentina’s Mountains BURIED in Snow This Month NASA snapped this photo of the Andes mountain range of South America buried in snow on September 12th, 2015. NASA liked the photo so much, they wrote an article about it: As the end of Southern Hemisphere winter approached, snow painted the region’s mountain ranges. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image of the snowy Andes Mountains on September 12, 2015. The Andes—the longest series of mountain ranges the world—span about 7,242 kilometers (4,500 miles) and runs through seven countries. The segment visible in the image above shows about […] SnowBrains | September 22, 2015 0 Comments
La Parva, Chile Conditions Report: 300 Earthquakes & Powder On the Sept 16 earthquake, it was 8.4 Richter, lasted over 2 minutes, and shook the hell out of La Parva. The epicenter was about 250km north of Santiago, in a relatively sparsely populated area near Illapel. There have been over 300 aftershocks, including 15 above 6.0, but most have not been perceived in Santiago. 13 dead, hundreds of homes seriously damaged, and the coastal infrastructure was trashed in particular in Tongoy, Coquimbo, and La Serena. Tsunami flowed up to 500m inland. This map shows those replicas above 4, stars are […] Conditions Report Guest Author | September 21, 2015 0 Comments
8.3-Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Santiago, Chile | Tsunami Warning for Hawaii: A very powerful 8.3-magnitude earthquake shook Chile’s capital Santiago today at 3:54pm PST that was centered 141 miles northwest of Santiago. A tsunami warning was issued for the coast of Chile. It’s feared that large tsunami waves could hit the Chilean coastline during the next several hours. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii. Estimated arrival time for tsunami waves […] SnowBrains | September 16, 2015 0 Comments
Valle Nevado, Chile Conditions Report: Champagne Powder! After seeing a storm up north we knew we had to bite the bullet and take busses all the way from El Bolson, Argentina to Nevados de Chillan, Chile. Although the new snow didn’t quite justify the 24 hours of bus travel, we were lucky enough to see another big storm coming into the Santiago region and hopped on another few busses to catch some epic conditions in Valle Nevado. The storm this week blew in a foot to a few feet of cold snow, depending on the wind. Friday was cold and cloudless. It brought a day of sunshine and dry powder. Conditions Report Guest Author | September 12, 2015 1 Comment
La Parva, Chile Conditions Report: The Return of Powder What 25 cm of fluffy stuff can do! The base was rock hard and chocolate chips were sprouting after all the heat last week, but mondays snowfall was just enough to put things right. One of the more-skied-out runs, Las Flores: Light stuff! Clouded over later, but riding was still nice: What 25 cm of fluffy stuff can do! The base was […] Conditions Report Guest Author | September 10, 2015 0 Comments
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